Years ago, I called Antifa the Keyser Söze of the left, after the character in “The Usual Suspects.” In the film, the character Virgil explains how Söze stayed in the shadows: he became “a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night.” The strategy was too simple: “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”
Democratic leaders have long fostered the myth around Antifa, the largest and most violent group on the political left. For years, they have denied the existence of the group even as members were charged with crimes (including terrorism). Now, the French authorities have found that the nonexistent group is the largest of three “ideologically distinct groups” responsible for the violence in France. It appears that either the entire French security system is delusional or the trick is up for the American left.
I have testified before Congress about Antifa, run columns on the organization for over a decade, and written a book discussing Antifa. Yet, Democratic members continued to insist that there is no such group, while other leading Democrats have praised Antifa for instilling fear in MAGA.
It was a curious claim even then, when other Democratic leaders were actively pandering to the violent group.
Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison — now the Minnesota attorney general — proclaimed that Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. His own son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer.
However, Democratic leaders and pundits have repeated the mantra that there is no such group despite political violence on the left spreading across the country.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) dared anyone to name a single member of Antifa despite the charging of Antifa members with various serious crimes.
Former House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was widely ridiculed for denying the existence of Antifa.
Others on the left have joined Goldman in this absurd claim. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel devoted part of his monologue to assuring viewers that Antifa is no more than a mythical “chupacabra.” “You understand there is no Antifa,” he said. “This is an entirely made-up organization.”
The denials continued even as FBI Director Christopher Wray debunked deniers like Goldman. “Antifa is a real thing.” European countries have banned Antifa Internet sites due to their criminal conduct while Antifa candidates have been elected to office as members of the group.
Now, French authorities identified Antifa as the largest of three “ideologically distinct groups” responsible for the violence in France. The French Justice Minister also banned far-left politicians for fueling the rage. A previously banned Antifa group has been linked to one murder in France. Antifa and communist flags have been prominent in the protests.
A Belgian minister also blamed Antifa for the spread of the violence.
It appears that Keyser Söze is in the open, but Democrats maintain the FBI, Justice Department, and various countries are simply delusional.
The problem is when the myth becomes reality. Left-wing pundits and politicians are caught in this denial web where they have to maintain the absurd idea that Antifa is just an idea.
Some of us have been writing about Antifa for years after watching them intimidate and threaten faculty and students on campuses. One such student came from my campus and proclaimed that Antifa was winning after his arrest for property destruction.
When another radical was arrested after taking an axe to a congressional office, he self-identified as a member of Antifa.
Before Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, implanted an IED device outside of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office in downtown Montgomery, he put up stickers reading “support your local Antifa.”
Numerous Antifa members have been arrested, including some who claimed to be journalists.
Many protesters belong to Antifa groups that have names like “Rose City Antifa” and offshoots like Love and Rage and Mexico’s Amor Y Rabia. Antifa members have been elected to the French and European parliaments.
Rutgers Professor Mark Bray’s “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” called by some the “Antifa bible,” explains that the group is united in its opposition to free speech. “Most Americans in Antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists,” he writes. “From that standpoint, ‘free speech’ as such is merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration.”
Yet, Democratic leaders seemed to be adopting the 1967 ‘Guide for the Married Man’ when caught with Antifa allies or associations:
Knowing nothing of antifa I googled it. Fascism is the invention of philosopher Gentile in the 20s 30s era and adopted by Mussolini. Intellectuals throughout Europe opposing the philosophy were the anti-fascists. If I looked deeper I doubt similarities.
Mark Bray of Rutgers authored the little book of antifa. He’s fled to Spain after death threats and the murder of Kirk. He works remotely from Spain.
I couldn’t find any information regarding his childhood and suspected emotional injuries. Bray was an organizer of Occupy Wallstreet. I found one photo of Bray and his wife.
It’s anti government, anti police, anti capitalism, anti Wallstreet, racist in anti white people and a host of anti’s but not pro anything I could discern.
Lovely weather this autumn…
Antifa is the organization that opposes itself.
You googled it? And somehow a leftwing website/corporation is giving unbiased info?
Despite MAGA pundits trying to portray Antifa as some far-left, violent wing of the Demcratic Party, that is simply not true. Below is from “Fact Check:
“The anti-facist movement doesn’t actually have a major organization. Anti-facism Is a decentralized ideology and loose network of groups and individuals who oppose fascism and authoritarianism. While some local groups may identify as “The Antifa,” there is no overarching leadership or formal structure. Most participants advocate for social change through peaceful, constitutionally protected civil protest or disobedience. The majority of anti-fascists are nonviolent and do not engage in terrorism or organized violence.
Yes, there are videos of supposed “leftist terrorists”, but those usually are individual incidents that are usually tied back to radical groups which claim to be affiliated with anti-facism in order to justify their terrorism. Not only that, but many times these “videos’ of violent protests are out of context and posted on X/Twitter so brain-dead MAGA and Russian bots can spark social divide and discredit legitimate grievances posed by these protestors.
Many studies show that right-wing and religious violence poses a greater threat, being much more dangerous and prominent in America.
Anon, a suggestion is backtrack and read the philosophy of an Italian philosopher surname Gentile. Gentile is the creator of fascism. Then read the anti-fascist documents of 20s and 30s.
Thank you
You could not be more wrong.
It is antifa who has said by their own words, their “bible” and their own actions of violence they are now, a bigger threat then right wing or religious violence. The CHAZ zones, the assaults on Federal buildings and agents for some 100+ days in Portland OR, their actions against ICE agents, the North Texas Antifa terrorist cell, the 2020 Summer of Love, fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
And now we have some radicals who have traveled to France, taking pictures with Greta Thunberg, calling for,
“We have to be more enraged. Our comfort is hindering our progress. It really and truly needs to be white people that go outside and raise hell if we want to see revolution.”
And,
“There are far too many neoliberals that are just as bad as the fascists. The French have figured this out a while ago. Now it’s time to take it to the next level. Go f–k s–t up white people. It’s your time.”
Lots of BS in all that BS.
“You could not be more wrong.” See a psychiatrist.
“FactCheck.org” is a poster child of the myth that fact checking is bi-partisan. Factcheck.org virtually never gives credence to any fact that runs counter to the Left’s agenda, and always marks “true” any story which casts the Right in a negative light, no matter the truth. Never trust this organization to vet anything.
Then why do you constantly go there?
US radicals who traveled to France to join cop-bashing protests reveal plans to ‘raise hell’ on our shores
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/young-us-radicals-headed-to-france-to-join-cop-bashing-protests-are-planning-to-bring-riots-to-our-shores/
And of course he posed in a picture with Greta Thunberg.
NY Post is MAGA, so disregard.
ANON IS A PSYCHO SO DISREGARD
Are you disputing the fact that Rafael Gonzalez Jr. did in fact go to France, is in the picture with Greta Thunberg, did in fact say those things on his Facebook account?
We can count on leftist MSM to not report on such things. That is when we have to go to independent media to get the real story. To get the facts. As we all know, leftist MSM will not report on such things.
Answering an argument or assertion of fact by saying the source of the information is “MAGA” the oldest, stupidest, laziest retort out there. Of course liberal trolls use it for two reasons: (1) they’re lazy, stupid, and unoriginal, and (2) they have nothing else.
W_T_F are you ranting about?
MSM reporting? Who?
Indie media? Who?
Pal, you need to calm down.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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The first thing Americans must do is grasp and know that the communists in their country are the direct and mortal enemy, which must be neutralized immediately and with extreme prejudice along with all of their parties, departments, agencies, programs, benefits, etc.
Communists? Where?
Here’s a howler:
“Antifa means anti-fascist. So if you’re anti-fascist, then you’re Antifa.
That is the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
Sam,
I noted the absurdity of that logic. Antifa calls anyone they disagree with as fascist. In their desire to curb free speech, their assaults on LEOs, or just people who dare to talk to anyone on the other side of an issue, they show us they are really the fascists.
You are a Russian troll.
If I were a Russian troll, I would be comment bombing with inane, lower elevator level IQ like comments.
Or, I would make lame attempts to smear the good professor, make ad hominem attacks on him, and have to resort to using Google or AI to make my arguments for me.
If I were a Russian troll, I would attack Trump at every turn, endorse far leftist illiberal polices and antifa.
“I would be comment bombing with inane, lower elevator level IQ like comments.”
You are in fact comment bombing, and with lower level BS. Take time off man. You went over the edge hours ago.
Absurdity? And you call anyone who you disagree with Antifa? You are not sane.
theBut Facism is a form of LEFT socialism.
Antifa is an oxymoron
The Nazis were on the left and opposed free speech
Antifa = Nazi = far LEFT
The fundimental differences between Facism and communism
is that facism is typically nationalist – Hitler, Franco, Musolin, Peron,
While comunism is tyically more internationalist – Lenon, Stalin Marx,
Though the distinction is weak.
Another difference is that in comunism the dictatorship of the proletariat is a way point on the route to pure communism.
While in fascism the dictatorship and the all poweful state are the end.
Regardless the ends justifies the means in both.
Both seek an all powerful state to give people what they want.
Both are anti free speech.
Both are anti individual rights.
Both place the state above all else. With the individuals purpose to serve the state.
Actually read marx, lenin stalin, Chavez, Hitler, franco peron, musolini chavez, castro, Mao
They are all fundimentally the same.
Does Antifa exist as a coherent entity? While commonly presented as a decentralized movement, its structure strongly suggests a covert, highly coordinated apparatus and is very likely funded and sustained by wealthy patrons, possibly countries.
Operationally, Antifa functions much like a network of clandestine intelligence cells. Individual cells act independently and maintain strict operational security, remaining completely unknown to one another to prevent infiltration or exposure. Yet despite having no visible national leadership or formal hierarchy, these cells manage to act in tight concert during major events. This design creates a paradoxical structure: an organization that appears leaderless and organic on the surface, but operates with the calculated precision, resource backing, and dangerous tactical agility of a modern spy network.
gdonaldallen above and James below are both ESTOVIR
@ Xi jingping
I am Spartacus.
Estovir, Stitch From Hawaii wants more comment time.
Amazing PSYCHO ANON can type wearing a straitjacket!!!
gdonaldallen,
I was thinking on that as I was driving home from class. I think you might be on to something. Antifa could be the useless idiots being controlled or manipulated to do the foot solider work in the streets while others pull the strings. And those who are pulling the strings could have formal training. Based off reports of election interference, I would not put it past some of our enemies to conduct such operations.
While commonly presented as a decentralized movement, its structure strongly suggests a covert, highly coordinated apparatus and is very likely funded and sustained by wealthy patrons, possibly countries.
…..clandestine intelligence cells. Individual cells act independently and maintain strict operational security, remaining completely unknown to one another to prevent infiltration or exposure. Yet despite having no visible national leadership or formal hierarchy, these cells manage to act in tight concert during major events. This design creates a paradoxical structure: an organization that appears leaderless and organic on the surface, but operates with the calculated precision, resource backing, and dangerous tactical agility of a modern spy network.
You just literally described the Democrats white-supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK wore white robes and hoods, ANTIFA wears black bloc and masks or helmets. Both used incendiary devices and violence against their targets. Both the KKK and ANTIFA were/are supported by Democrat politicians, e.g. Senator Robert Byrd was a Grand Wizard, Democrat Senator Hugo Black (later SCOTUS Justice) was a klansman, and others……
Fact Checkers Cover for Democratic Party’s Sordid History With the Ku Klux Klan
An investigation published by the Illinois General Assembly in 1976 explains that after the Klan “transformed into a political organization,” violence became more widespread under Democrat leadership. The men that guided the Klan’s reorganization and subsequent growth included:
Nathan Bedford Forrest—first Grand Wizard of the Klan and a Democratic Memphis alderman.
John W. Morton—Grand Cyclops of the Nashville Klan and a Democrat who became the Tennessee Secretary of State.
John B. Gordon—head of the Georgia Klan and a Democratic governor and senator.
George G. Dibrell—Deputy Grand Titan of the Klan and a Democratic congressman from Tennessee.
Dudley M. DuBose—Grand Titan of the Klan’s Fifth Congressional District and a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
Fredrick N. Strudwick—Klan leader in North Carolina and a Democratic state representative.
George W. Gordon—Klan leader and a Democratic congressman from Tennessee.
John C. Brown—“probable leader” of the Klan and a Democratic governor of Tennessee.
Edmund Pettus—Grand Dragon of the Alabama Klan and a Democratic senator from Alabama.
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/fact-checkers-cover-democratic-partys-sordid-history-ku-klux-klan
This was always boosheet. Antifa are so hypocritical, ignorant, and frankly, stupid – sheesh.
Yes, they exist, yes they are ignorant pissant ‘antifascists’ that can’t look in the mirror, and yes, they are largely dumb young people that go home to mom and dad after they blow something up. This is just the end result of all that so many of us have said in relation to so many things for far too long. If we don’t don’t do better, at some point these kids will simply be feral. They would dearly love the CHAZ ‘autonomous zone’ (oh, the irony) to be society writ large. The good news is, they are so incompetent on their own, they would likely simply die out in a decade or two.
They are stupid, and you are also stupid if you can’t give them an even metaphorical spanking. Shame on you and shame on us. WE created this. Find the scr*tum to un-create it. Big daddy Soros and his ilk won’t pay forever.
We must be talking cross-purposes. What have y’all got against anti-fascists?
*I thought we beat Benito and the Nazi back in WWII?
Ukraine is part of Western Civilization.
If France is worth defending from Hitler, Antifa, or whatever, then Ukraine should
be worth defending from Putin.
Ukraine is part of Western Civilization.
If France is worth defending from Hitler, Antifa, or whatever, then Ukraine should
be worth defending from Putin.
You’re free to join the Ukraine’s army or donate to its cause.
This is a wonderful, well-written article showing what is happening in France, where the rioters “were proudly draped in the Palestine colours.” The link appears after a few paragraphs. What we have is an alliance of communists, Islamists, and anarchists attacking Western Civilization. Antifa, depending on location, contains all three.
It was the sight of the beautiful town hall of Limoges being devoured by fire that really shook France, and the world. A palatial citadel of public life, it was built in 1883 and made a protected monument in 1975. On Saturday, a mob set fire to a cop car outside the town hall, then smashed the hall’s windows, clambered in, and set fires with cruel abandon. The flames licked upwards and engulfed the roof, causing it to cave in. The bell tower came crashing down. As many have pointed out, it survived two world wars but it could not survive the unleashed juvenile rage of ‘the New France’.
For me, even more disturbing than the mob’s desecrations in Limoges was their brutish shoving aside of Marianne in Marseille. Masked gangs stormed into the city hall there. They cried ‘It’s the revolution!’ before hurling a bust of Marianne to the cold, stone floor. Marianne, of course, is the female personification of the French Republic, the proud-busted woman who embodies liberty, equality, fraternity and the rule of reason. It was less violent than the architectural nihilism in Limoges but more telling: we are witnessing nothing short of a mob jihad against the French Republic.
One thing united the Marianne desecrators of Marseille and fire-starters of Limoges and the monument-climbers of Paris – many were proudly draped in the Palestine colours. Young men sported the flag across their backs as they watched that bell tower fall to their fiery, fatuous wrath. It was hung in pride of place in Marseille city hall once Marianne had been unceremoniously dispensed with. It was waved everywhere in Paris. At Place de la Bastille, and at Place de la République, where vast Pally flags fluttered solemnly at the feet of the great monument to Marianne as flumes of grey smoke rose into the autumn air.
I forgot to post the address; well worth reading the whole thing.
How ‘Palestine’ conquered France
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/19/how-palestine-conquered-france/