Antifa: The Paramilitary Vanguard of the Cold Civil War

We are in a war against an enemy regime that aims to destroy the American way of life. But it is difficult to convince people of this.

One reason even well-meaning Americans fail to understand this war is that the enemy is very difficult to see. In turn, the enemy is difficult to see because its elements — media, academia, the deep state, the destructive, radical wing of the Democrat party, nonprofit foundations, and, in some cases, large corporations — are usually connected by nothing more than a shared ideology.

But there is another element of the enemy regime, an especially dangerous one that operates more boldly than the others: a paramilitary operation, Antifa. It too is difficult to connect.

In a recent interview with Christopher Rufo, Kyle Shideler, a Claremont fellow and Senior Analyst and Director for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Programs at the Center for Security Policy, explains how Antifa is connected to the enemy regime, specifically, how tax-exempt, progressive charitable foundations fund Antifa and other anarchists through a maze of middlemen who hide their violent projects amidst legitimate ones. This misdirection makes it very challenging for law enforcement to tie any foundation to the illegal activity that it supports.

Read the exchange at Rufo’s Substack below.