. . . progressivism and democratic socialism, you . . .
. . . won't be far wrong.
While real property is being destroyed and real people are losing their livelihood, Antifa's violence is largely street theater, which is to say symbolic. The heavy lifting still comes from the political branch. Cases in point:
Progressives' refusal to accept the results of democratic elections, witness Stacey Abrams who still claims, against the evidence of the polls, that she was elected governor of Georgia, witness the corruption to the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to try to remove Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office or destroy his presidency.
Progressives' efforts to make election fraud easier to pull off, substituting mail ballots for in-person voting, with its embarrassing requirement that voters be alive and present. What fun are elections with no easy way for intermediaries -- political activists -- to harvest the good ballots and weed out the bad ones.
Progressives' crippling of the U.S. economy and the astonishing attacks on personal freedom of Americans in a grotesque overreaction to the Wuhan virus.
Progressives' promiscuous government overspending, fattening the dole, buying future voters by paying some more not to work than to work, and putting the generations into permanent debt slavery.
Progressives' destruction of honest journalism, honest science, and honest education by activists from the political and cultural left.
Still, the street violence has an important function: to stir public turmoil. Violence and anger are fertile ground for the thing Antifa purports to oppose -- fascism.
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