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 o

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