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The designation faces legal hurdles since antifa is a decentralized ideology rather than an organization.

No domestic equivalent exists to the State Department’s foreign terrorist organization list, partly due to 1st Amendment protections for U.S.-based groups.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said early Thursday that he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”

Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity. They consist of groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations.

It’s unclear how the administration would label what is effectively a decentralized movement

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