Trump\u2019s Terrors<\/b><\/p>\n
Toujours, mon br\u00e8ves et mon brefs, toujours!<\/b><\/p>\n
Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n
September 22nd<\/sup>, 2025<\/i><\/p>\n Fearless Leader has officially executive ordered and deemed AntiFa to be a \u201cTerrorist Organization.\u201d Yes, with the capital letters. Scarier that way, you know.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve never really considered myself a terrorist. My idea of a terrorist campaign would be sharply-worded letters to the editor, or snide memes posted for the edification of the local MAGAts. In moments of extreme rage, I have been known to cancel subscriptions. If I was working for Al-Qaida, I would probably be the bloke who writes the ads for the newsletter.<\/p>\n But I\u2019ve been AntiFa since I was five years old, when I learned what fascists were. They were the nasties who were why some of my classmates had rickets, or were missing older brothers and dads. Prime Minister Churchill hated them, and by gosh, that was good enough for me. Down with fascists! Boo! Hiss!<\/p>\n So if I\u2019m AntiFa (and the past seventy years haven\u2019t offered any reasons to change that stance) does that mean that we now refer to them as just \u201cFa\u201d? I don\u2019t know. They aren\u2019t very nice people. I don\u2019t really want to be on a first-syllable basis with them.<\/p>\n The thing is, the more I learn about fascism, the less there is to like. I slowly evolved from \u201cHitler was a mean sort who bombed us and was horrid to his people\u201d to learning about the death camps and death marches to the general horrors of authoritarianism.<\/p>\n Turns out that AntiFa was around back in the 30s. Not surprisingly, Germany, the 1930\u2019s version of America Project 2025, had a communist-aligned group, the Antifaschistische Aktion. <\/em>This was back when communism was fashionable, and people really believed the Soviet Union would become a Workers\u2019 Paradise. <\/em><\/p>\n We learned to admire AntiFa terrorist organizations over the first few decades of my life. Of course, we had different names for the<\/em>m<\/em>: The Resistance. The Underground. Freedom Fighters. <\/em>The Irregulars. The<\/em>y<\/em> blew up bridges and trains and best of all, bridges with trains on them. <\/em>They were masters of sabotage, both passive and active. <\/em><\/p>\n If anyone bothered mentioning that the fascist governments considered them to be Terrorist Organizations, we probably just shrugged it off. They were fascists, after all. Bunch of bloody clots, that lot. Who cared what they thought?<\/em><\/p>\n Americans generally shared that view of AntiFa until the race riots and Vietnam protests came along, and the vicarious resistance heroes of World War 2 suddenly found themselves perched on the other side of a very uncomfortable fence. How dare those People demand equal rights, and why are those long-haired hippies be upset about being sent to die in the tens of thousands for no good reason at all? <\/em>Repress! Repress! Repress!<\/em><\/p>\n The fascists, discredited by <\/em>World W<\/em>ar <\/em>2<\/em>, saw an opportunity <\/em>in America\u2019s somewhat naive authoritarian streak<\/em>, and began a long, systematic assimilation of the American right, beginning with the McCarthy era and the John Birchers and reaching its apex with the Trump coup. <\/em>The AntiFa rebels of yesterday were now the settled and jealous establishment. And the<\/em>y<\/em> prefer law and order to rebellion and idealism.<\/em><\/p>\n But there\u2019s this one problem: most Americans, at heart, are <\/em>still <\/em>AntiFa. They don\u2019t like authoritarians. They don\u2019t like cowards and bullies and vicious hatemongers. <\/em>In short, t<\/em>hey don\u2019t like fascists. And no <\/em>number<\/em> of executive orders is going to change that. <\/em><\/p>\n And fascists, no matter how much lipstick they slap on, are still pigs. It\u2019s intrinsic to the philosophy, which is that a select few are superior to the unwashed masses. They are entitled to control, <\/em>su<\/em>press, and exploit. It\u2019s the will of God. It\u2019s for the fatherland. Resistance is useless.<\/em><\/p>\n This past week\u2019s uproar over the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from his show, and the largely unsuccessful effort to deify the reprehensible Charlie Kirk (more on that in a moment) showed that cracks are starting to appear in the Trump coup as people finally realize exactly what it is they are facing.<\/em><\/p>\n Kimmel said this to get banned: “The Maga Gang desperately trying to characteri<\/em>z<\/em>e this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.\u201d He didn\u2019t attack Kirk, or mock his death, or praise the assassin, no matter what the liars of MAGA say. Just that. <\/em>That\u2019s all it took to scare the fascists.<\/em><\/p>\n The reaction to Kimmel <\/em>being taken off the air <\/em>was easily the biggest spontaneous explosion of public rage since the George Floyd demonstrations\u2014and it was both totally non-violent and in a form the right couldn\u2019t infuse with violence. It may have been the biggest single boycott in American history. Millions of people canceled their subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu, and millions more sent protests to Sinclair and Nexstar Media Group. Sinclair in particular is a far right concern famed for having its television \u201cjournalists\u201d chant fascist talking points word for word. People started compiling lists of companies advertising on the stations of either consortium. <\/em><\/p>\n Disney, out 4 billion dollars in stock value and millions of subscriptions, backed down and reinstated Kimmel. It remains to be seen if the authoritarians at Sinclair will broadcast him. It\u2019s too early to declare victory, but the administration and Disney got a taste of what damage a determined underground can do.<\/em><\/p>\n Then there was the grotesque Horst Wessel rally masquerading as a memorial service for Charlie Kirk. <\/em>Curiously, <\/em>few<\/em> of the speakers, including Trump, seemed to give a wet shit about old Charlie, but instead put on their best Nuremberg presentations. Of particular note was Steven Miller, who for some reason doesn\u2019t have a large black swastika tat<\/em>t<\/em>ooed on his billboard-sized forehead. <\/em><\/p>\n He said, <\/em>\u201cWe will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen. We stand for what is good, virtuous, noble.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cTo those who are against us? \u201cWhat do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing! You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING! You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure it sounded better in the original German. It was, almost word-for-word, a translation of the speech Joseph Goebbels gave in a paean to dead Nazi nobody Horst Wessel.<\/p>\n It is no longer possible to disguise what these people are, and the threat they pose to all of us.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason Trump calls AntiFa a \u201cTerrorist Organization.\u201d He fears us. We are<\/b> AntiFa in our tens of millions, those who understand how important freedom and rights really are.<\/p>\n There are reasons we glorified The Resistance in the fifties and sixties. They were brave and steadfast in the face in ultimate evil.<\/p>\n We need to remember that, because Fascists don\u2019t go away if you ask them nicely. Be prepared to resist. This week we showed that it can be done without violence or even defying the law (Executive Orders are not law). But we have to be firm. We have to be resolute. We have to be brave.<\/p>\n