Antifa Are the Real KKK: Proscribing Antifa and Their Supporters

Donald Trump is not our Caesar. Yet could he be our Sulla? Given the American Right’s inability (or refusal) to build a mass movement capable of matching the Left when it comes to protests, fundraising, campaigns, and political organization, state action from the top is the last card to play. Recently, the Trump administration won a major legal victory that could provide a way forward if we are serious about ending the seditionist groups that have plagued nationalists for so many decades. More importantly, another case could end the threat altogether.

It’s tragic and pathetic that the Trump administration has received so much criticism for “doing nothing,” given what the online Right has done in the months since Charlie Kirk’s murder.

The chief accomplishment was successfully freeing the Left from all blame for the death and instead redirecting it into a funhouse hall of mirrors where responsible parties include Egypt, Israel, Kirk’s widow, and various other parties, all at the same time. Recently departed National Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent even managed to raise doubt about whether suspect Tyler Robinson committed the murder because alleged “foreign ties” surrounding the killing were not investigated. If Robinson is acquitted, his defense team will owe Kent a fruit basket, as well as most of the influencers on what passes for the Right.

The Trump administration certainly could have done more. “Imagine if the situation were reversed” is the oldest argument in the conservative movement, but it is clarifying. Had such a crime taken place against a leading left-wing activist, most of the people reading this would be in jail now. One must only look at the response to January 6 to see how quickly the system can move against a perceived threat when it really wants to.

Of course, one key distinction is that the Biden administration enjoyed almost unanimous support from federal judges and liberal Washington D.C. juries, landing an almost 100 percent conviction rate against J6 defendants. In contrast, federal judges have sabotaged the Trump administration’s law enforcement efforts in many areas, and Antifa or illegal immigrant defendants have even been acquitted via jury nullification. Those who want President Trump to “do more” should have a plan about how exactly they expect to dispense with the entire judicial branch. I have my doubts if giving the Democrats (and their judges) unlimited power is the correct move.

Still, the Trump administration recently won a major victory in a recent trial against Antifa. Nine members of a North Texas Antifa cell were convicted of various charges for their roles in rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer and unarmed correctional officers at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4, 2025.

“Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities—not under President Trump,” said former Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America’s streets.”

The significance is that this is the first federal terrorism case against supporters of Antifa. The guilty verdicts are an important precedent because it is less likely that handpicked juries and judges in deep blue states will simply be able to let their pets go after assaulting conservatives, nationalists, or immigration law enforcement. The press sees the threat, and the reaction has been hysterical.

• How the Trump Administration Has Turned Left-Wing Activism Into Terrorism, New Yorker, March 26, 2026
• ‘People should be scared’: convictions in US ‘antifa’ trial set dangerous precedent, Guardian, March 29, 2026
• Chilling Dissent: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted On Terrorism Charges For Wearing All Black, The Intercept, March 13, 2026

This is a remarkable narrative for a “protest” put together by a coordinated group that culminated in the wounding of a police officer. A right-wing protest that ended in a police officer being killed would not lead to such furrowed brows and nuanced commentary. Such media warnings about “chilling dissent” were noticeably absent over the last decade as J6 protesters (or even some who weren’t even there) had their lives destroyed for appearing at a protest where the only fatality was protester Ashli Babbitt. For that reason, one should not entertain concern trolling from so-called civil libertarians whose true worry is about being lumped in with the right-wing chuds. Law is a function of politics, and all politics in a multicultural democracy is a function of who, not what.

Media concern about the government cracking down on their Antifa allies should also not be surprising. Antifa today is largely a media phenomenon. Though Antifa groups are quite capable of violence, they are not the working-class toughs familiar to European nationalists or the club scene of the 1980s. This bizarre menagerie of transgenders and effete political radicals would have little effectiveness were it not for the guaranteed legal support they enjoy from groups like the National Lawyers’ Guild and air cover from their friends in the media who either defend them as harmless protesters or occasionally deny their existence altogether.

For example, former Meet The Press host Chuck Todd interviewed Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook [PDF]in 2017.

However, when President Trump recently moved to define Antifa as a terrorist group, Todd complained this was a repressive measure that could be used against anyone because he didn’t know “what antifa is.”

Only the reader can judge whether this is malice or stupidity, but the age of social media has made it far more difficult to believe it’s the former. Rather than saying many journalists support antifa, it would be more accurate to say that many journalists are antifa and simply use “journalism” as a tactic. Bray himself has already fled the country in fear of President Trump, as several sympathetic media accounts dutifully reported.

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