The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
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By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the state to charge us all as terrorists.
The point is not to go after members of antifa, short for anti-fascist. It is to go after the last vestiges of dissent.
When Barack Obama oversaw the coordinated national campaign to shut down the Occupy encampments, antifa — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass and seek physical confrontations with police – was the excuse.
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
President Trump, Washington, D.C. and Antifa symbol (X, @nicksortor, Screenshot)
I have no love for antifa. The feeling is mutual. I was a fierce opponent of the Black Bloc anarchists who identified with antifa. They embedded themselves in Occupy encampments and refused to take part in the collective decision making. They carried out property destruction and initiated clashes with the police. Occupy activists were antifa’s human shields. I wrote that antifa was “a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.”
David Graeber, whose work I respect, wrote an open letter criticizing my position.
I was doxed. My lectures and events, which received phone threats forcing venues to hire private security, including bodyguards, were picketed by men dressed in black, their faces were covered by black bandanas. They all carried the same sign, no matter which city I was in, that read: “Fuck You Chris Hedges.” During a debate with an anarchist supporter of antifa in New York City, several dozen black-clad men in the audience jeered and interrupted me, often yelling out sarcastically “amen.”
The state effectively used antifa — I am certain antifa was heavily infiltrated with agents provocateurs — to shut all of us down. The corporate state feared the broad appeal of the Occupy movement, including to those within the systems of power. The movement was targeted because it articulated a truth about our economic and political system that cut across political and cultural lines.
Antifa, let me be clear, is not a terrorist organization. It may confuse acts of petty vandalism and a repellent cynicism with revolution, but its designation as a terrorist organization has no legal justification.
Black Block at Berkeley, California, 2017. (Roger Jones from Frisco, Wikipedia, Creative Commons by 2.0)
Antifa sees any group that seeks to rebuild social structures, especially through nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, as the enemy. They oppose all organized movements, which only ensures their own powerlessness. They are not only obstructionist, but obstructionist to those of us who are also trying to resist. They dismiss anyone who lacks their ideological purity. It does not matter if individuals are part of union organizing, workers’ and populist movements or radical intellectuals and environmental activists. These anarchists are an example of what Theodore Roszak in “The Making of a Counter Culture” called the “progressive adolescentization” of the American left.
John Zerzan, one of the principal ideologues of the Black Bloc movement in the United States, defended “Industrial Society and Its Future,” the rambling manifesto by Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, although he did not endorse Kaczynski’s bombings. Zerzan dismisses a long list of supposed “sellouts” starting with Noam Chomsky and including myself.
“The state effectively used antifa — I am certain antifa was heavily infiltrated with agents provocateurs — to shut all of us down.”
Black Bloc activists in cities such as Oakland smashed the windows of stores and looted them. It was not a strategic, moral or tactical act. It was done for the sake of destruction. Random acts of violence, looting and vandalism are justified, in the jargon of the movement, as components of “feral” or “spontaneous insurrection.” These acts, the movement argues, can never be organized. Organization, in the thinking of the movement, implies hierarchy, which must always be opposed. There can be no restraints on “feral” or “spontaneous” acts of insurrection. Whoever gets hurt gets hurt. Whatever gets destroyed gets destroyed.
“The Black Bloc movement is infected with a deeply disturbing hypermasculinity,” I wrote. “This hypermasculinity, I expect, is its primary appeal. It taps into the lust that lurks within us to destroy, not only things but human beings. It offers the godlike power that comes with mob violence. Marching as a uniformed mass, all dressed in black to become part of an anonymous bloc, faces covered, temporarily overcomes alienation, feelings of inadequacy, powerlessness and loneliness. It imparts to those in the mob a sense of comradeship. It permits an inchoate rage to be unleashed on any target. Pity, compassion and tenderness are banished for the intoxication of power. It is the same sickness that fuels the swarms of police who pepper-spray and beat peaceful demonstrators. It is the sickness of soldiers in war. It turns human beings into beasts.”
But while I oppose antifa, I do not blame them for the state’s response. If it was not antifa it would be some other group. Our rapidly consolidating police state will use any mechanism to silence us. It actually welcomes violence. Confrontational tactics and destruction of property justify draconian forms of control and frighten the wider population, driving them away from any resistance movement. It needs antifa or a group like it. Once a resistance movement is successfully smeared as a flag-burning, rock-throwing, angry mob — which those in the Trump administration are working hard to do — we are finished. If we become isolated, we can be crushed.
“Nonviolent movements, on some level, embrace police brutality,” I wrote. “The continuing attempt by the state to crush peaceful protesters who call for simple acts of justice delegitimizes the power elite. It prompts a passive population to respond. It brings some within the structures of power to our side and creates internal divisions that will lead to paralysis within the network of authority. Martin Luther King kept holding marches in Birmingham because he knew Public Safety Commissioner ‘Bull’ Connor was a thug who would overreact.”
Motorcycle cop line alongside anti-police brutality march in New York City on Oct. 22, 2011, on Day 36 of Occupy Wall Street. (Carwil Bjork-James, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
“The explosive rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement came when a few women, trapped behind orange mesh netting, were pepper-sprayed by NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna,” I went on. “The violence and cruelty of the state were exposed. And the Occupy movement, through its steadfast refusal to respond to police provocation, resonated across the country. Losing this moral authority, this ability to show through nonviolent protest the corruption and decadence of the corporate state, would be crippling to the movement. It would reduce us to the moral degradation of our oppressors. And that is what our oppressors want.”
I saw how antifa was weaponized to break the Occupy movement. Now it is being weaponized to throttle any resistance, no matter how tepid and benign.
This justification for widespread repression is absurdist theater, characterized by fictions, including the supposed “Red-Green” alliance of Islamists and the “radical left.” Stephen Miller, Trump’s top policy adviser, insists there was an “organized campaign” behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk, whose martyrdom has turbocharged state repression. Any Trump opponent, including billionaire financier George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, will soon be caught in the net.
We are all antifa now.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.
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Hedges wrote and interesting article that is consistent with his world-view. The comments are an interesting mish-mash of conspiracy theory, a extensive definition of “fasces” (not sure why this was supposed to be germane to the present) and general opinions about what “antifa” is and is not. I made the mistake of wasting too much time skimming it all.
All these years later we still are slandered by the unthinking, now as exponents of “progressive adolescentization.” Are you forgetting who we were? We grew up in the constant grinding terror of instant nuclear annihilation, and in the toxic shadow of parents unspeakably traumatized by a great Depression and a senseless, needless great war for US global hegemony. We wanted no part of your hypocritical, materialistic, thoroughly corrupted politics, nor yet had we the American Christian-macho bloodlust that says you must die because our way is better than yours. We instinctively realized that we were perhaps close to the final generation of humanity as the planet’s dominant species, that the bill for generations of madness was coming due with an almost supernatural vengeance. I always assumed I’d be dead by the time it all came unraveled but it looks like the last of my generation will not escape that final bad trip after all.
In Key West, no Antifa, not even posers, though plenty of Resistance ! dems. Whew–ten years ago, I thought of getting one going, thinking them a defense against right violence, kind of like we need our Marines to fight evil Stormtroopers (I was in Army Sec Agency in my youth). Glad I lost motivation, common in Key West, went snorkeling or to Duval.
Great article Chris. Very illuminating…but I think we need to delve deeper into this subject. The Left seems to be poorly informed about the concept of “fascism” and as a result we on the Left are missing a key cornerstone to confront and resist the totalitarian takeover of our government by the extreme right.
To begin with the word “fascist” is derived from the latin word “fasces” meaning “to bundle”. The Romans appropriated this symbol and marched with it in their military parades. They were of course the most powerful city state of their time. It is critical that we all understand exactly what this symbol is and what it means. The symbol is formed by “bundle” of sticks that are wrapped together tightly by a leather strap. In the middle of the bundle, at both ends, an axe head with the handle prominently protrude. The meaning of the symbol is this; a stick by itself is weak and can be easily broken but if bound together tightly (by a leather strap that represents discipline) then the united combination is strong and powerful as represented by the axe. What the Left has failed to understand is that fascism, when used as a TACTIC in a defensive posture, would present a formidable defense against the blows of our aggressive totalitarian government.
That fascism is a proven successful TACTIC explains why this symbol is displayed in many venues of our government. For example, the Speaker of the House of Representatives stands between two of these symbols that are ten feet high and coated with gold leaf! A pair of these symbols are crossed at the bottom of the seal of the US Senate. The US Mercury dime (minted from 1916 to 1945) has this symbol on one side. The Lincoln Memorial portrays Abe sitting in a chair with arms constructed of this symbol (minus the axe)…but you get the point.
It is true that the TACTIC of fascism has been used by governments all over the world to aggressively suppress dissidents on the Left. In that sense the word now implies any repressive totalitarian authority. Because of this many on the Left have defined the repressive authority of our current government as “fascistic”….which has spawned a general movement called “Antifascist Action” (ANTIFA). But this is a wrong turn…it is leading us to exactly what Chris Hedges has explained….more repression. BTY, the Right is proud to be called fascistic…because they know exactly how successful the TACTIC of fascism can be.
Instead of concentrating our fire on “fascism” we on the Left need to adopt the discipline and the united strength that this ancient symbol stands for. We should build a school for this purpose… to teach the arts of self defense… and the humanities that unite us…. and why we must stand to defend our ideals . It is my contention that the TACTIC of fascism can be applied in a purely defensive posture…to protect peaceful citizens in peaceful protests. No black masks,…but proud open enlighten faces. This cadre of disciplined defenders would also serve to expose the agents of the Far Right who seek to sabotage our peaceful intentions. I also believe that some on the Right would respect this stance and may eventually unite with us…especially younger persons.
I realize this all may sounds a bit like reforming Hitler’s Brown Shirts..but that is not what I intend. The Left should be the party of the “People”…. “ALL THE PEOPLE”. We are under attack by the Maga Right…and the Christian Nationalists…and all the Zionists. They are not playing by the old rules. We need to apply new tactics to confront this new coalition of private, selfish, personal interests. This is just one idea…
” The Left should be the party of the “People”…. “ALL THE PEOPLE”. ”
The left is mostly a party of bourgeois middle-class white folks. Folks of a distinctly off-white hue tend to identify their politics as moderate or conservative, not liberal/leftist (even those who vote democrat). Black Democrats tend to skew towards Clintonian triangulation, not leftism.
hxxps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-diversity-of-black-political-views/
“Polling done by the Pew Research Center has suggested that among self-identified Democrats, blacks and Latinos are less likely to describe themselves as liberal than whites. Data from this AP/NORC poll comports with Pew’s findings: The majority of blacks say they are moderate (44 percent) or conservative (27 percent), while just 26 percent said that they are liberal.
It requires some pretty advanced mental gymnastics to convince yourself that the left is the party of all people after an election in which every demographic except white women and retired whites moved towards conservatives, conservatives won a plurality of the national vote and swept the swing states.
“We are under attack by the Maga Right…and the Christian Nationalists…and all the Zionists”
… and the classic liberals (Clintonians), and the Obama wing, and the Abundance Democrats, and the Wall Street wing, and so on and so forth. Leftists are only about 1/3 of the Democrat ‘big tent’ and about 1/6th of the total electorate. Until they start to figure out how to meet people who disagree with them where they are at (rather than where leftists think they should be), they will continue to be locked out of power. Leftist have lost the ability to persuade. Instead, they rely on political litmus tests and if you fail any one of them, you are branded as a reactionary. Joe Manchin voted with Democrats 95% of the time, but got chased out of the party because he valued the filibuster (which has certainly come in handy during 2.0). Ditto for Krysten Sinema. And now it’s happening to Jon Fetterman who votes with Democrats on damn near everything but is vilified because of the one area where he disagrees with progressives (Israel). That’s not a recipe to win people over. It’s a recipe to turn a big tent into a small tent.
hxxps://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/a-fascinating-new-look-at-americas
“George Soros will soon be caught in the net.”
Absurd. This is truly laughable. Chris is really off base with this one.
Soros’ brand of politico-economics: open borders for all Western nations and destroying any truly sovereign states that eschew the vast tentacles of international finance capitalism, is exactly what our elites are comfortable with!
Now is the time for all of us to have very serious conversations about the current administration. While I do realize most who come here to read this will understand exactly what Mr. Hedges means by saying , “we all are antifa !”
Everyone else needs to completely understand in trump’s tiny brain anyone who doesn’t agree with him 100% is his enemy. That we all are antifa is reflects the mental(?) image he has of “We the People!”
As a direct result we all are threatened by him with only the MAGAT group having any chance of pardons from DJT. Trump himself is and has made his intentions for the rest of us crystal clear.
Any disagreement with his policies will be met disproportionate punishment to make the point, “thou shall not question dear leader”. In my opinion at some point if the man is allowed to maintain his current course violence will occur,. Again forced by his encouragement of his mob.
The bottom line is when push comes to shove, IMO the masses must remember this. Trump is violating the word and intent of the U.S. Constitution. SEE: Robert Arnold at the utoob – You must watch at least these two videos of his: On the Absurdity of “We are not a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Federal 10 is discussed, you might be surprised. Also see, On Federal 28 & The Original Right of Self Defense – as intended to defend our freedoms from an oppressive government.
U.S. Presidents take an oath swearing to up, protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution as they received it upon there election. The constitution never intended to allow any president to alter the meaning of the document to be tailored to reflect his or her personal interpretation of the law.
The original intent of the founders was for the document to serve as the foundational layout of the rule of law. Trump has engaged in an authoritarian over reach from the very beginning of his first term to the present. This does not require any further proof. Trump and his administration’s destructive intent well documents by their micro management and radical changes in the basic mechanics of how our government has worked for three hundred years.
We as citizens have the Patriotic duty to engage in an educated discourse discussing our candid opinions in our efforts to inform the our government of the type of governance required to maintain our individual and collective rights as American citizens.
Further the intent of the U.S. Constitution is to inform all citizens each has the right to disregard any actions taken by the government which are a result of actions by potus which violate his oath.
I’ve seen enough to know where this runaway train is headed. We must be united in our resistance to this madman if we are to prevail.
I’m convince most all citizens do not wish to see the country placed under siege by a malevolent leader and his mob. Send your elected representatives your own version of what I have. written here please. Go to the utoob and check out Mr. Arnold’s advice for dealing with an aged idiot who is losing what is left of his poisoned brain. Educate yourselves of your rights.
Y’ all have a nice weekend.
“Trump’s top policy adviser, insists there was an “organized campaign” behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk”
Are we sure he is wrong? We are still debating whether JFK’s assassination was a conspiracy or a lone gunman after 60 years. It seems a little premature to insist we know one way or the other in regards to Kirk’s assassination just a couple of weeks after it happened. I tend to agree with you that Miller was WAY overstating the case for a conspiracy, but I won’t dismiss it out of hand. There did seem to be an awful of lot internet chatter about something big going down on 9/10 in the days leading up to Kirk’s TPUSA event. Maybe it was idle wish-casting. Maybe it wasn’t. We don’t know for certain one way or the other, and possibly never will.
“We” are NOT “still debating whether JFK’s assassination was a conspiracy”! We KNOW it was not Oswald. You are only speaking for YOU. Be careful with a fool.
I figure if such a plot exists could it be the result of the Miller’s fascist mind being jealous of Ole Charlie?
He is, IMO in the Perfect position to pull something like this off given his apparent total disregard for rules or laws on any type that limit on his overstepping authoritarian behavior.
I find Miller’s rhetoric to be pretty damn repellent at times, but I also remember back when he was the lone voice in the wilderness defending the Duke lacrosse team from false rape accusations and pointed out helped nail county prosecutor Mike Nifong to the wall for his myriad violations of due process in pursuit of a prosecution to move his career forward. So like most people in politics, Miller has regard for the rules when he is out of power, but disregards them when he is in power.
We’re seeing the same dynamic now in all the people crying about Trump’s vengeance tour after remaining silent for four years during the lawfare against Trump and his advisors. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Unfortunately, it seems the USA is destined to go down the same road where Brazil is on, where ascending to the presidency is almost always followed by lawfare and a stint in lockup. Rouseff was impeached, Temer was locked up, Lula was locked up, and Bolsonaro is about to be locked up. It’s been 20+ years since a Brazilian President left office of his own free will and was not locked up afterward. Welcome to the new normal America.
Good for you being so observant and wanting to wait in order to make a final judgment.
I think Hedges here overstated his case on Antifa. I remember biking through Seattle when the WTO met. Antifa’s masked people were very active that day breaking windows and shouting obscenities. At the least they came across as being at least somewhat mentally challenged.
This was my opinion, which I have the right to express. I also think you.happen to have it all wrong here, but it’s your opinion. You see I made up my mind long ago about Trump & company.
I’m not sure I’m making a final judgement on anyone here but since you mentioned it you might be onto something.
For instance, coming across as being at least somewhat mentally challenged, is something you have managed to do the here. In my opinion. You seem a bit confused.
“The Black Bloc movement is infected with a deeply disturbing hypermasculinity”
Is it?
Every clip I see of them in action there are plenty of white chicks and transgender ‘men’ (natal females) in their ranks. In fact, they often use the women as the tip of the spear in their protests, hoping to get a viral clip of a ‘nazi’ manhandling a girl to gain public sympathy.
“I am certain antifa was heavily infiltrated with agents provocateurs”
If they are tools of the security state as you propose (and I agree), then that sounds like a good reason to shut them down and go after their funding and the people backing them. As you mentioned, they poison all forms of legitimate protest, on both the left and the right. They are an anti-American (anti-civilization really) menace serves no constructive purpose in a representative Democracy. They reject the entire premise of democracy, which ironically makes THEM fascists.
The Black Bloc was cops. We’ve all known that for a long time. I saw it during the Anti-Vietnam protests in the 1960s.
“The point is not to go after members of antifa, short for anti-fascist. It is to go after the last vestiges of dissent”
LOL
If you want dissent, all you have to do is turn on non-FOX cable news stations, or the last vestiges of the late-night talk show circuit before it goes extinct, or any college campus, or South Park, etc. I sure as heck don’t see any reluctance or fear among the media, entertainment industry, or general public to call out Trump as a fascist, a Nazi, mock him for having a tiny penis, or compare him to the greatest villains of the 20th century (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc.). If Trump were an ACTUAL fascist, no one would say that stuff more than once before getting ‘the knock’ and being shipped off to a gulag. Instead, there are comedians and entertainers and activists and politicians who have built their whole careers as ‘anti-Trump warriors’ and made quite a lucrative living doing it. Heck, ‘Orange Man Bad’ is pretty much the Democrat party’s platform.
Trump could come out in favor over breathing and Democrats would asphyxiate themselves just to spite the Mango Mussolini. We saw an example of that just this week when TikTok influencers started chugging bottles of Tylenol just because Trump said it was bad for pregnant women. Never mind that this has been known for a decade, and that a recent study backed by scientists from Harvard, Johns Hopkins and other respected Universities confirms this, and that Tylenol itself posted about it back in 2017, if Trump said it, must be wrong. Never Trumpers would rather harm themselves and their unborn children (sorry, clumps of cells) than accept Trump is right about something.
The value of Antifa to the Trump adminstration lies in the fact that it has no real existence. There’s no organizational structure, no membership, no single identity or aim. Its sheer nebulousness means that anybody could at any time be placed in this category and prosecuted- or worse. The state is taking a page from early American history. Precisely because the devil doesn’t exist, he could be found everywhere, in the most innocent remark, or the nightmare of a child. And for the same reason, the fact that there were no witches in Salem village meant that the hunt could go on, consuming neighbors, friends, family, perhaps even the authorities themselves. In the present instance, this will be a much more controlled and purposeful event, but with far-reaching consequences.
The British have a saying- “Begin as you mean to go on.” Well, they’re certainly starting out with a well-crafted plan. This isn’t going to be an episode of hysteria that burns itself out in a season.
What you described Antifa’s lack of structure/organization is a pretty common organizing principals among terrorist organizations. That’s how they avoid getting rolled up by the CIA/Pentagon. Multiple small cells that are not connected and have no central authority is how most terrorist organizations work. Ditto for the anarchist and communist cells of the early 20th century. Lack of organization is a feature, not a bug.
I’m not saying that makes Antifa a terrorist organization. I’m saying that the lack of a formal organizational structure is not proof that an organization does not exist.
It’s always nice to have one’s opinions confirmed by better minds. Thank you, Mr. Hedges.
From their outset, I saw antifa as nothing more than intentionally created, controlled opposition leading disgruntled, overly-medicated and impressionable young adults into acts that only serve to diminish their rights through the obvious and expected reactions to such anti-social behaviour. This group is certainly not bound by any true ideology of anarchism, that’s for sure and their reasons translate into excuses.
It’s the same everywhere with radical or opposition groups – the government always infiltrates them and ultimately controls them because they have the ability to do so, whereas antifa on the other hand was created IMO by elites deeply involved in social-engineering (the same people I believe they claim to be against) from the outset.
They’ve always reminded me of the anti-government group ‘anonymous’, due to the constant contradictions between their words and deeds. I see them as coming from the same mould.
As for being labelled terrorists, they have indeed induced terror by many of their actions so for some this will be a welcome designation, but officially labelling anyone and everyone a terrorist all of a sudden because it gives you more power to crush them does seem like a very slippery slope towards a totalitarian-esque future which those in power, fearful of the awakening populace they’ve been taking advantage of for so long, appear to be eagerly striving towards.
I am a proud anti-fascist along with everyone I respect. It is our duty to oppose fascism as it is the duty of all moral people everywhere on the planet.
Antifa is not anti-fascist. It’s fascists posing as anti-fascists. Don’t believe me? Ask them what they stand FOR, not what they stand against. Most won’t even be able to articulate a positive vision of what they believe without invoking what they stand against. Of the few who can, they will tell you they are anarchists who don’t believe in democracy or government of any kind. They believe in imposing their worldview on others through violence. It doesn’t matter if their views are in the majority or minority. They are convinced with absolutely certainty that they are in the right and everyone else is stupid and wrong, and that no one who doesn’t pass their litmus test deserves a say in how the world is run.
Carolyn, how about being against people who commit genocide, use any means to achieve an end, and have very little ability to identify just what they oppose. Yes, opposing Fascism gets many acknowledgements of virtuenous. But if you are what position do you take of the genocide that Netanyahu is performing in the Middle East?
The powers-that-be don’t really dislike antifa that much, after all it tends to overly focus on non-economic ID politics and is probably in that Soros funding network in some way. Moreover, it essentially advocates for open borders which is silly and absurd and is a Koch bros Chamber of Commerce nocturnal emission fantasy.
What our current ruling class truly fears is a populace that gets wise to how the Zionist power configuration is robbing us all blind: the Israelis have free healthcare and subsidized college, and over the past 22 years we’ve fought extremely costly military battles in the Middle East for their benefit. We fund the entire bill!
Thanks to the internet and social media, a tipping point of knowledge about these perfidious sadists is blossoming.
Remember how Greenblatt freaked out a year or so ago about how the young no longer buy into the pro Israel b.s. and how TikTok is the major problem? Now we see creepy Zio freak Elllison buying it all up.
“open borders which is silly and absurd and is a Koch bros Chamber of Commerce nocturnal emission fantasy”
WAS a Koch Brothers fantasy (as famously pointed out by Bernie Sanders). Not anymore. Progressives have laid claim to that policy as their own since Koch Brothers immigration beliefs have wholeheartedly been rejected by MAGA Republicans.
It’s another example of Democrats being reactionary and doing the opposite of Trump, even when public opinion is with Trump. If you listen to pre-Trump Democrats talk about immigration, they sound a whole lot like Trump. Obama was the ‘deporter in chief’, Clinton was a hardliner on illegal immigration, even going all the way back to the 1960s, lefty labor activists like Cesar Chavez despised illegal immigration. But today? Democrats would gladly let in everyone in and hand out punch and cookies at the border.
Excellent comment, exactly spot-on!