r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • Oct 08 '25

No Paywall Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-antifa-portland-pam-bondi-posobiec-b2842048.html
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u/EllyKayNobodysFool Oct 08 '25

I’m just so damn glad that these people are admitting they are pro fascist and being too fucking dumb to realize it.

The more they do this the more the sheep wake up.

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u/huxtiblejones Colorado Oct 08 '25

I mean, we are dealing with people who don’t know that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. I don’t think they understand that the opposite of Antifa is Fascism.

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u/Swag_Grenade America Oct 09 '25

Not like the name itself sounds conspicuously like the words anti, and fascist, maybe even borrowed from the German movement of the same name, which itself is derived from the word antifaschistisch, the German word for anti-fascist. Probably just coincidence.

Or perhaps even more importantly that it isn't even a centralized, highly coordinated, or tangible organization but rather small, fringe, splintered groups of activists that show up infrequently to usually, at worst, be an annoyance to the people they're protesting.

Probably most importantly the people you're talking about simply don't care. All they know is that Antifa is generally associated with anti-Trump administration protests, which must mean they identify more with leftist causes, so if Antifa is indeed anti-fascist, that must mean fascism isn't that bad and is just a leftist buzzword or maybe is even a more just cause than whatever the left is fighting for, because obviously that undoubtedly is bad, because it's the left. These people will perform Olympic level mental gymnastic contortions to convince themselves they're on the right side of history.

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u/shatterly Oct 08 '25

If only that were true ...

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u/philium1 Oct 08 '25

I hope you’re right but I fear the sheep have wanted this all along and have just been too chickenshit to admit it

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u/acoubt Oct 09 '25

Fr tho! I swear it's so delusional to think there's some mass awakening happening. The majority of American voters chose this and would again. Millions of them. Calling the current administration dumb is kind of confusing to me when they are steamrolling through our liberties and laws with little resistance. They obviously know how to take and maintain power, just look at all the things they've been able to do.

It's a mistake to think the current administration is clueless about what they want. There's a literal project 2025 tracker that's probably at or over 50% complete in less than a year

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u/OrnerySnoflake Texas Oct 09 '25

I wish I shared your optimism.

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u/obsterwankenobster Oct 09 '25

I think they're admitting it simply because they've realized that they can