Donald Trump’s War on ‘Antifa’
By raising the spectre of ‘antifa’ and outside agitators, the US President is trying to cast protestors against police violence as alien – and legitimise brutal crackdowns in the process.
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Chip Gibbons is a journalist whose work has been featured in In These Times and the Nation. He is also the policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, where he authored the report "Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Legacy of FBI First Amendment Abuse." The views expressed here are his own.
By raising the spectre of ‘antifa’ and outside agitators, the US President is trying to cast protestors against police violence as alien – and legitimise brutal crackdowns in the process.
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