Powerline Blog reports that New York Times reporters Thomas Fuller, Alan Feuer and Serge Kovaleski collaborated on a breathlessly admiring profile of the far-left thugs known as antifa -- meaning "anti-fascists" although the truth is that these anarchic savages actually are fascists themselves.
In "'Antifa’ members are ready to literally fight [sic] right-wingers” posted at the Star Tribune website, the Times trio whitewashes the new Brownshirts by suggesting that the clashes between antifa and "far right" "Nazis" are balanced skirmishes. The authors repeatedly say that antifa "sparred" or "scuffled" with white supremacists, when in fact, what has happened is that antifa arrives at otherwise peaceful protests eager to pummel journalists, women, and old men in MAGA caps, usually sucker-punching and then ganging up on victims lying on the ground, pounding them with feet and poles. When human victims aren't immediately available, antifa has been known to cause hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage.
As the Times writers put it, "Members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to U.S. democracy."
The leftist media, including but not limited to the Times, suggest that antifa is justified in its violence because its thugs are battling fascism. “You need violence in order to protect nonviolence,” one antifa member said with absolutely no self-awareness. “That’s what’s very obviously necessary right now.” She went on to say of antifa's opponents -- anyone who disagrees with them -- that “[t]heir existence itself is violent … so I don’t think using force or violence to oppose them is unethical.”
The Times reporters hint that this is a valid point: "Antifa activists have engaged with people who were less than outright neo-Nazis, raising questions about whether there is such a thing as legitimate political violence." People who were less than outright neo-Nazis. The implication here is that the best of antifa's opponents are still neo-Nazis, just not so upfront about it as others. It's a disgusting lie, but typical of the left's defense of this radical band of nihilists -- who, by the way, openly declare that they are anarchists with no patience for peaceful "liberals."
John Hinderaker at Powerline posts some sarcastically-captioned photos of antifa violence, such as this one:
Here is a photo of antifa responding to a violent window in Washington, D.C. during President Trump’s inauguration:
Or this one:
This violent car was one of many set on fire by antifa during the inauguration:
