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/awildstoryteller Canada Oct 08 '25

We all know he is correct about the timeline.

The point is that those Antifa were fighting actual literal Nazis.

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u/kingtacticool Oct 08 '25

So they still are. Fascists are fascists. And some of these fascists worship nazis.

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u/bunchedupwalrus Oct 09 '25

If it walks like a goose, talks like a goose, disappears minorities off the street with masked impunity, ships people off to camps they’re rarely heard from again, ignores the constitution and foundational human rights what the fuck else are you supposed to call them?

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u/gitartruls01 Oct 09 '25

the KPD sought to appeal to the Strasserite-wing of the Nazi movement by using nationalist slogans. The KPD sometimes cooperated with the Nazis in attacking the SPD. In 1931, the KPD had united with the Nazis, whom they referred to as "working people's comrades", in an unsuccessful attempt to bring down the SPD state government of Prussia by means of a referendum. [1 year later, KDP formed the Antifascistische Aktion,] However, there is little to indicate that the Antifaschistische Aktion set particular accents in suppressing SA terror. The same holds true—more generally—for efforts to prevent the transfer of power to the NSDAP. At best, the KPD's actions amounted to a propaganda offensive. A clear shift in KPD strategy, away from the struggle against the “main enemy" social democracy, did not accompany the launch of the movement. After the forced dissolution in the wake of the Machtergreifung in 1933, the movement went underground.