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 where 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 was 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 DC 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 did win 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.
Verdict reached in high‑profile Prairieland ICE attack trial
“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 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.
This is a remarkable narrative for a “protest” put together 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 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 severalsympatheticmedia accounts dutifully reported.
The de facto partnership between Antifa and journalists was most comically revealed when Don Lemon joined a raid on a church on January 18, 2026.
The Cities Church was forced to suspend its worship service out of fear for its safety, with one child worrying aloud about whether their parents were going to die. According to the indictment, Lemon met with other organizers to discuss the operation before it took place, thus making him part of the conspiracy. Furthermore, the government claims Lemon thanked one of the organizers and pledged his silence about the target of the operation. He also said on his livestream: “We’re going to head to the operation. Again, we’re not going to give any, any of the information away” (i.e. telling anyone where they were heading and thus possibly alerting the target). He even told his audience: “We can’t say too much. We don’t want to give it up.”
It was probably never meant to be used in this way. Minnesota Attorney General (and former black separatist) Keith Ellison gave the game away, protesting that the law was supposed to be used for abortion clinics. He has also argued for using it to protect mosques in the past. Either way, he and his political allies are horrified the letter of the law is being obeyed and not the spirit of the law, which was simply to put pro-life Christians in jail.
The Ku Klux Klan Act is far more important. It criminalizes any attempt to use a conspiracy to deprive other Americans of their constitutional rights. This obviously includes freedom of worship, but it also includes freedom of speech. Clearly, the original intent (it was passed in 1871) and the way it has mostly been used was against right-wing groups. It provides a means for the federal government to break up any right wing group that leftists or minorities can accuse of intimidating a protected class. However, in theory, it should apply to anyone.
Most of all, it should apply to Antifa. Consider what the aforementioned Mark Bray wrote in Antifa [P. 144] regarding Antifa’s approach to free speech:
Instead of privileging allegedly “neutral” universal rights, anti-fascists prioritize the political project of destroying fascism and protecting the vulnerable regardless of whether their actions are considered violations of the free speech of fascists or not.
That is all very well for them, but a free nation of laws is defined by “neutral universal rights.” One could argue that Antifa is defined by the attempt to strip Americans of their constitutional rights. This does not simply have to be through violence, but through threats to venues, participants and attendees. Property destruction, media smears, doxing, and other tactics are familiar to all of us. For that reason, we all have a direct stake in the Don Lemon case.
The precedent has already been set that material support for Antifa, a terrorist organization, is a crime in the case of a violent attack. What is needed is precedent showing that Antifa by its own nature is inherently a threat to Americans’ constitutional rights. Such a precedent would give the Trump Administration a powerful new weapon against these groups. Perhaps more importantly, a conviction of Don Lemon would show that supposed journalists do not get to provide material support to such groups and participate in their actions, while still pretending they are independent. It strikes the very root of the Antifa/media partnership that is a foundation of leftist power. The whole point of Antifa is to rob Americans of their constitutional right to free speech, and many journalists are eager co-conspirators in that effort.
In this case too, X was filled with complaints in the days following that the Trump Administration had done nothing. It turns out, the Trump Administration did do something. It was actually preparing a serious case. In fact, the Trump Administration did more than any presidential administration of our lifetime. Perhaps that is simply an indication of how little we have come to expect as there is so much more to be done.
Yet the stakes in this case are far higher for us than many have understood. A conviction in the Don Lemon case will have effects even more sweeping than those secured in the Texas Antifa case. For supposed anti-system radicals, Antifa have never actually faced a real threat from the system even at the level some pro-nationalist streamer takes utterly for granted. That may be about to change, and we have everything to gain. As for Antifa, if Don Lemon goes down, more of them may want to join their “comrade” Bray in exile. If “the rule of law” suddenly applies to them too, they will no longer be able to operate.
