Deconstructing Antifa and "No Kings"

Antifa are the Democrats’ brownshirts

The myth of Antifa (indigenous, widespread, spontaneous, non-violent, etc.) has been endlessly propagated by its supporters, including tenured university-level academics, teachers union bosses, globalists, leftwing billionaires, the under-30 crowd who have been groomed/brainwashed by communist teachers and professors, the Antifa media (i.e., MSNBC, CNN, NYT, etc.), the Chinese Communist Party, and the national leaders of the Democrat Party. One only needed to observe the run-up to yesterday’s No Kings (sic) march to note that all of the above are on the Antifa bandwagon.

“Anti-fascists” (Antifa) have been around since before World War-II. While Hitler and the original Nazis are now burning in Hell, the political Left in the West (Europe and the US) have used the nazi metaphor against their political enemies ever since. In 2025, the Democrat Party has absorbed most of the Antifa ideology and incorporated elements of Marxist critical race and gender theory into the mix.

Let’s take a look at how the current Antifa blob evolved in recent years.

HOW ANTIFA STARTED

Excerpts from an excellent Epoch Times article explain:

Antifascism began as a response to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s. His National Fascist Party was named after a symbol of penal power in ancient Rome, the “fasces,” a bundle of rods with an axe.

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In 1932, Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifascist Action), a communist-led militant group that confronted Nazi stormtroopers in Germany, gave the modern Antifa movement its nickname and symbols that are still in use today, such as the raised-fist salute.

The Antifa movement persisted for decades in Europe before spreading to the United States via punk rock culture.

By the 1980s, a group called Anti-Racist Action had risen to prominence in the United States; later, it dissolved into smaller, decentralized groups.

Hold that thought of small, decentralized groups for a few paragraphs.

OTHER INFLUENCES

There are several important influences on modern Antifa ideology from its origin to the present day. These include:

The Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School Marxists provided the pseudo-intellectual underpinnings of the worldwide Communist movement. They developed the main theories and tactics that remain in play today by subversive organizations like Antifa and BLM. As noted here, “The revolutionary propaganda is disguised under the fig leaf of ‘science’. Among the theoretical derivates of Frankfurt School are so-called Critical theory, and professors of this school were the source of the ideas that fueled what is now known as Student’s protests of 1968.” Critical theory underpins all leftist efforts within Academia to corrupt traditional Christian values of Western culture with pseudo-values included in the umbrella term of cultural Marxism.

Saul Alinsky. Saul Alinsky was a proponent of the Frankfurt School methods who developed a “cookbook” that leftwing radicals have used in efforts to “undermine from within” American cultural and political institutions. As described here, “In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky wrote specifically to the 1960s generation of New Left radicals: ‘What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”” “New Left radicals” are of course what Antifa has become in 2025.

Cloward and Piven. These two Sixties radicals were professors at Columbia University and likewise proponents of the Frankfurt School. They developed the Marxist strategy of “overloading the system” in order to precipitate a crisis that only the federal government could solve. As noted here, “Cloward and Piven … believed in “change” and “social justice.” Inspired by the Watts riots of Los Angeles in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of Saul Alinsky-type social change to America. In their estimation, it was to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse.” In short, by instigating and then exploiting those crises to advance a political agenda.

The Antifa Handbook. Written by leftwing Rutgers University academic Mark Bray (who recently fled the country to Spain) in 2017, this tome is a kind of “encyclopedia of Antifa,” continuing historical background information, lessons-learned from past actions, strategies on violence/non-violence, attacks on “white supremacy” (the latest Antifa focus), advice for future actions, and selected Antifa references from other countries. Note that the Antifa handbook is posted in the Anarchist Library in its entirety, as anarchism is an underlying them; recall the concept of “small, decentralized groups” mentioned in that Epoch Times excerpt above.

ANTIFA 2025

Obama’s Organizing for America, Antifa, and BLM are the political heirs and “brown shirts” of the aforementioned radicals. They are not “indigenous”; they are well-funded by leftwing billionaires and foreign governments, all of whom seek the destruction of America. And they are executing “The Plan” to destroy America and Western civilization as they see it.

The ostensibly non-violent “community organizing” arm of the Democrat National Committee during the Obama years was “Organizing for America,” which is suspiciously similar to a predecessor community activist organization called ACORN in membership and motivation. It morphed into “Organizing for Action” after Obama left office. Is there overlap between members of OFA and Antifa? Certainly their objectives overlap, as noted on their website here. Since 2017, OFA has subsequently been transformed into the umbrella activist organization that provided many of the “street organizers” who have planned and executed Antifa’s non-spontaneous riots in American cities in recent years.

To summarize, Antifa — “anti-fascist” — is not a single organization per se. Rather, it is a loose network of groups and individuals who coordinate their anti-racist activism on an ad hoc basis in different areas both within and outside the United States. Its political objectives align perfectly with the goals of the left wing of the Democrat Party – and with Obama in particular. Antifa is the current manifestation of the activist authoritarian Left in America, seeking to suppress any dissenting political speech on college campuses and in the streets and using the tried-and-true Alinksy tactics of personal confrontation to put pressure on political opponents.

CONFRONTING ANTIFA AND THEIR SUPPORTERS

This is becoming an every-day experience for Trump supporters, as Antifa types and rank and file Democrats relentlessly spout their nonsense through the legacy media and social media. Yesterday’s “No Kings” rallies brought out a bunch of them, and their common political thread is “Never Trump,” i.e., they oppose anything and everything put forward by President Trump, no matter how beneficial to the majority of America people. It has been said that these people would oppose Trump if he was somehow able to cure cancer, rabid fools that they are!

Here is a recent personal interchange with one such individual. The below is but one example of the type of propaganda about which these people bleat. There are many more such topics/examples.

Quoting an Antifa/No Kings supporter: “…January 6^th was clearly an insurrection, a domestic threat, …”

My response: Yet another person who has been living in an Antifa media bubble (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, etc.). Let’s unpack your nonsense:

1. From Grok: No federal agency has officially declared the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol to be an “insurrection.” While the term “insurrection” has been used extensively in political discourse, congressional reports, and some court rulings, executive branch agencies responsible for law enforcement and national security—such as the FBI, DHS, and DOJ—have classified the attack as domestic terrorism, a riot, or violent extremism, but not as an insurrection under official policy, reports, or legal determinations.

2. The illegitimate J6 committee didn’t even call it an insurrection (illegitimate because there was no ranking member on the committee nor any legal counsel provided). The J6 committee destroyed all the evidence afterward. Gee, I wonder why they did that?

3. As to the non-deployment of the NG, the Democrat Speaker of the House and DC mayor turned down the president’s offer of 10,000 NG troops, as LTG Kellogg testified under oath that he was in the room when the offer was made, as reported here.

4. The FBI confirmed that there was no evidence that firearms were used or brandished inside the Capitol during the breach. What’s an insurrection without firearms enforcement?

5. Revelations continue to evince about the fake J6 insurrection narrative. Videos show Capitol police escorting people and directing traffic in the Capitol during the “breach,” as well as “insurrectionists” peacefully wandering around inside. Then there was the recent disclosure of ~275 FBI “agents” among the protestors. Why has it taken 4.5 years to find that out? What were they doing? More will be uncovered about that in the coming months.

Another quote from the Antifa/No Kings supporter: “…many of those insurrectionists were tried and convicted…”

My response: Yes, indicted by Democrat-dominated grand juries in a totally blue jurisdiction, tried by Democrat prosecutors with Democrat judges who suppressed evidence. Democrat-appointed public defenders who were urged to obtain plea deals for lesser offenses. And other violations of defendants’ Sixth Amendment rights, including excessive pretrial confinements and solitary stints. President Trump corrected many of those civil rights violations with pardons, etc.

Third quote from the Antifa/No Kings supporter: “The whole idea that Antifa is some sort of organization is laughable.”

My response: Antifa is decentralized political movement comprising autonomous groups, individuals, and networks united by opposition to fascism, racism, white supremacy, and far-right extremism. The unifying glue among the various local cells and regional groups is ideology much like the Communist Manifesto is the unifying ideology behind all communist movements and splinter groups. This structure draws from the “leaderless resistance” model popularized in extremist circles (both left and right) in the 1990s, emphasizing independent cells to avoid disruption. This allows clowns like you to make your false claim that “Antifa isn’t an organization.”

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

A couple of important facts about Antifa to consider:

1. It began as a foreign ideological movement (Benito Mussolini!)

2. It has incorporated Marxist critical theory concepts.

3. It is focused on undermining the US and Western civilization.

4. It is anarchist in nature, with the glue being ideology and backing from leftwing billionaires and international sources (not indigenous!).

5. No national Democrats, either presidential wannabes or congressional leadership, have publicly condemned violent Antifa protests. In fact, Democrat calls to “defund the police” are a two-fer for Antifa: fewer police for public safety enforcement and a legitimization of one of Antifa’s key objectives.

6. Democrat prosecutors and judges rarely prosecute alleged crimes committed by Antifa radicals to the fullest extent of the law; to the contrary, they are usually released back into society without paying any real penalties.

7. The legacy media are cheerleaders for Antifa in concert with Democrat politicians.

Lastly, the No Kings marches didn’t deliver on their promises of “massive protests” yesterday, as social media accounts resorted to publishing crowd size photos from 2017 to try to convince people that “millions” of American showed up yesterday. As but one example, even X Community Notes was able to debunk one such false crowd claim in Boston:

https://x.com/StartWhere_U_R/status/1979701099323121775

What were they protesting, anyway? Peace in the Middle East? $3 a dozen eggs? $2.70 a gallon for gasoline? Kicking boys out of girls sports and bathrooms? Given the great policy successes that President Trump has enacted since January (refer to this article that summarizes his accomplishments), a better name for the “No Kings” protests would be “No Brains.”

The end.