Opinion: As Trump’s smearing of protesters gets worse, Adam Schiff raises a red flag
Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?The apparent goal, at best, is to paint the violence as largely left-wing in origin and perhaps to excite Trump’s supporters with threats of military retribution. Never mind that there’s little evidence so far of much organization behind the violence that has occurred, let alone anything that would constitute “terrorism.
At worst, the goal is to confuse people about the true nature of the protests themselves at by making them appear manipulated by left-wing radicals.The thing about this, though, is that even the threat of such a designation constitutes use of the levers of government in a highly political way — to frame messaging about the protests in a manner Trump’s fever dreams tell him will benefit him. We’ve seen this endlessly from the administration.
“Of course that’s not true at all, but that’s what’s behind this destination,” Schiff continued, noting that the goal was “distraction,” to avoid confronting “the reality of police violence against African Americans.”, even if Trump can’t legally do this to antifa in particular, the whole point is to employ law enforcement structures to reinforce the administration’s political framing of the moment, which is itself highly dubious.
Schiff was skeptical this would amount to much more than bluster on Trump’s part. But Schiff added that if by any chance it did result in actual policy, numerous House Democratic committees, including his, would examine it.“You’d certainly have to examine any policy action they’d purport to take and how they would define people as members of this organization,” Schiff told us.
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