What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
theintercept.com
What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
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OK, I'll admit it. Antifa isn't an idea. It's really A.N.T.I.F.A., the Alliance of Nefarious Terrorists, Infiltrators, Fighters, and Assassins. We've lurked in the shadows for decades, led by a masked man named Blofeld, code named Antifa Commander, but now it's time for us to reveal ourselves to the world!
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No, liberals are very clear eyed about what Trump is doing: Finding an effective scapegoat that he can use to break America’s rights and liberties so he can further crank up the fascism.
The use of the term 'liberals' by the Intercept is not meant to be synonymous with 'the left' -- its meaning in this context is the political mainstream of the Democratic Party and the left wing of the Republican Party. The term comes from the philosophy of 'economic liberalism' and adjacent to terms like 'neoliberal' and 'capitalist' but inclusive of people who engage in politics consistent with those ideologies without explicitly self-identifying as ideologues.
It's crazy how many of my fellow americans have been so propagandized to. Taught to self-identify with the ideology responsible for most of the problems they seek to solve. Felling a misguided duty to defend it because they perceive any criticism of it as criticism of themselves.
Especially when most of them are so uninterested and even uneducated in terms of economic ideologies in general. Focusing entirely on social freedoms. Better described as progressive or if we are willing to muddy our terms and the waters socially liberal but not liberal. Still willing to die on the hill defending liberalism, however.