An effort to characterize Democrats as Antifa domestic terrorists.
The second-highest-ranking member of Trump’s cabinet believes the nonentity known as Antifa is a serious threat to the national security of the United States. Marco Rubio recently called the fictional organization a designated domestic terrorist organization. Antifa does not have an organizational structure. It does not have an address or official webpage. It is a decentralized movement that shares an antifascist ideology.
“If there’s anybody involved in activities such as (fire bombing) that could potentially inspire or lead to violence in the United States, we’re going to designate them (as terrorist groups),” Rubio said to White House reporters following the designations in November.
Note the language: Rubio said “could potentially inspire or lead to violence,” not did result in violence. In other words, Rubio is telling us the government, apparently including the State Department (Rubio is also Trump’s national security advisor), is involved in surveilling and possibly infiltrating an organization that does not formally exist in addition to doing likewise to “radical left-wing organizations” existent in the physical world.
Next week, Rubio will host a global counterterrorism summit in Washington, D.C., and representatives from over 60 nations in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia are invited to attend.
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The summit follows President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism strategy, which he signed in May, focused on identifying and neutralizing what the White House called “violent, secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically transgender or anarchist, such as Antifa.”
Antifa and decentralized, left-wing extremist networks will be discussed, according to The Washington Post. “Our counterterrorism operating system needs an update to deal with the reality of such threats, to protect American citizens and U.S. national security and interests,” a State Department official said.
The administration signed an order in 2025 designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. The following year, the administration declared that it was using federal agencies to go after Antifa. According to a White House press release:
The Trump Administration has made it clear: Antifa terrorists and their networks will be investigated, disrupted, prosecuted, and neutralized with the full force of federal law. There will be no safe harbor for those who attack law enforcement, obstruct lawful immigration enforcement, or wage campaigns of political violence against the American people.
Turbocharging the Murder of Charlie Kirk
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank with “terror experts” such as the neocon Michael Ledeen, accused CIA drug smuggler Richard Armitage, and the former CIA official Penelope Hartland-Thunberg, reports “the number of terrorist incidents involving left-wing extremists so far this year puts 2025 on pace to be the left’s most violent year in more than three decades.”
CSIS characterizes the murder of TPUSA leader Charlie Kirk as an example of left-wing violence despite the fact that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, has yet to be convicted of a crime. Lawyers for Robinson have raised doubts about the prosecution’s case and its lack of evidence. Regardless, the murder of Kirk has “turbocharged the conversation—and fears—around political violence in the U.S.,” reports NPR.
The CSIS analysis argues left-wing violence increased over the past decade, but emphasizes that it remains low in absolute terms and below historic levels of violence from right-wing and jihadist groups and individuals.
Trump: The Threat of Communist Democrats
The Trump administration has stepped up its rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections in November, characterizing Democrats as communists. The president has explicitly linked progressive Democrats, democratic-socialist victories in recent primaries, and immigrant communities to a “communist” threat. “Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as ‘godless communists’ who pose an existential threat to the nation,” The Guardian reported.
Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) issued in September threatens political speech and acts of civil disobedience by classifying them as domestic terrorism. According to the memorandum,
domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity. (Emphasis added.)
In other words, the administration will prioritize speech as a measure of violence. The Supreme Court determined in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) that the government cannot penalize inflammatory speech unless it is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action,” thereby overturning Whitney v. California (1927), which maintained that such speech posed a “clear and present danger.” Additionally, Brandenburg v. Ohio reversed the ruling in Schenck v. United States (1919), which concluded that Charles Schenck and other defendants, who disseminated flyers to draft-age men encouraging resistance to induction during WWI, could be found guilty of attempting to obstruct the draft.
Saving Trump and MAGA from Midterm Disaster
The president is attempting to make the midterms a referendum on Democrats’ ideology rather than on day-to-day issues like the economy. “Republicans are searching for ways to salvage their congressional majorities despite mounting headwinds, including an unpopular war in the Middle East and deep voter dissatisfaction over the cost of living,” CNN reported.
“We’ve got to fight like hell to keep our party from being hijacked by socialists,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, described as a “centrist” Democrat. “Most of them are bomb throwers, not problem solvers,” he said, while Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo insisted candidates like those who won primaries in New York are not representative of all Democrats.
Rubio’s summit will portray “far-left extremists” as a threat and conflate that alleged threat to ideology of Trump’s political opposition. The administration’s effort to portray Democrats as communists and potential terrorists is a desperate attempt to hold together the MAGA base and retain the Republican majority in both houses of Congress.
Insistence on the “transnational” aspect of “Antifa-affiliated networks” is a way for Rubio and Trump to magnify the supposed threat and transfer a politically negative connotation to their enemies, most notably New York Governor Mamdani and other self-described socialists.
CSIS acknowledged that there is no singular, cohesive “leftist threat” on a global scale. Meanwhile, other threats, such as Islamist terrorism, state-sponsored coercion, transnational criminal organizations, and far-right violence, continue to pose significant security challenges, although these threats do not threaten the MAGA hold on Congress.
Article posted with permission from Kurt Nimmo
