Thugs and Journalists
With all of the criticism coming from liberal and centrist media (as
well as the usual suspects on the right), one would think that a
commitment to opposing fascism is some
kind of social harm. It’s a cruel irony given the reverence justly paid
in American civic ideology to those who were murdered by and those who
miraculously survived Nazi genocide.
Yet we really do not seem to have learned much: in less than a month —
the time between the rally in Charlottesville and the weekend of the
failed white supremacist demonstrations in the Bay Area — anti-fascists
(antifa) enjoyed a moment of heroism before public opinion, as broadly
represented by the media class, turned: per the Washington Post, antifa,
an overarching description of broad coalitions historically created to
resist European fascism in the early 20th century, is 'the moral
equivalent of neo-Nazis.
