Salon – The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump’s White House: “The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have long been leftists who fight fascism with tactics like outing, public shaming and a very occasional fist to the Nazi nose. But antifa, at least as imagined by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, simply does not exist. The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” which is not a legal designation. His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all. Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,” nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.” It doesn’t “conceal its funding sources and operations,” and it certainly isn’t involved in “spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.” MAGA’s imaginary version of antifa is no different than past urban legends about demonic possession and QAnon’s claims that Oscar winner Tom Hanks eats children’s brains. But this false conflation between individuals throughout history resisting fascism and “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to confuse… MAGA’s imaginary version of antifa is no different than past urban legends about demonic possession and QAnon’s claims that Oscar winner Tom Hanks eats children’s brains. But this false conflation between individuals throughout history resisting fascism and “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to confuse, just like Trump’s ridiculous roundtable on antifa earlier this month. Conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, one of the event’s attendees, insisted that “antifa is real” and there were “various iterations” that go “back to Weimar Republic in Germany.”…”