As promised earlier, here’s the extended report from Ford Fischer and News2Share on the events of this past weekend in Portland, which saw wide-scale violence from right-wing protesters and an exchange of gunfire, as well as an incident in which self-described antifascist protesters assaulted a reporter.
More TK.
I have never seen a bigger example of sheer idiocy in my life. This was like watching a comedy. I am now thinking Idiocracy was definitely a documentary.
Just what makes someone "right wing" these days? "Right-wing" used to refer to folks like, say, actual fascists - Franco. Mussolini. Marcos. Stroessner.
Now it seems like anyone who believes in God, thinks this country is actually an okay place, or is horrified at the notion that we're allowing minors to authorize life-altering and irreversible surgery is "right-wing." Patriotism is "right wing." The U.S. flag is "right-wing." Matt Taibbi is "right wing."
Obviously, anyone who starts firing a gun at a rally is dangerously criminal, but I'm not sure that just because Antifa posts on social media that a "right wing" rally is being organized that it is truly "right wing."
I have my doubts about the veracity of these claims, but am open to being convinced.
As far as Antifa, their self-proclaimed spokespeople have a rather dismal and very public record of anti-Semitic tropes, of trying to intimidate through street violence, of hiding their identity so they can't be held accountable, of advocating for censorship and violence. They dress in all-black military-style garb, they carry weapons to "protests," they even tend to wear jackboots.
They are far more similar to the European f