The Real Antifa

During its first year, the second Trump administration has frequently described a range of opposing forces as “Antifa,” which it has characterized as a domestic terrorist group. But as historian Nigel Copsey and sociologist Samuel Merrill explored during the first Trump administration, Antifa groups are not only small, locally organized, and unconnected to the Democratic Party or mainstream nonprofit groups, but also generally resistant to the use of violence except as a limited, defensive tactic.