Trump’s antifa terror tweet turns a fringe panic into a presidential clown show
Trump’s declaration that “major consideration” was being given to branding antifa an “organization of terror” was the day’s clearest self-own: a president of the United States treating a loose ideological label like a deployable enemy force, then inviting a fresh round of backlash over law, civil liberties, and basic seriousness.
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Trump’s antifa terror tweet turns a fringe panic into a presidential clown show
Trump’s declaration that “major consideration” was being given to branding antifa an “organization of terror” was the day’s clearest self-own: a president of the United States treating a loose ideological label like a deployable enemy force, then inviting a fresh round of backlash over law, civil liberties, and basic seriousness.
Trump’s declaration that “major consideration” was being given to branding antifa an “organization of terror” was the day’s clearest self-own: a president of the United States treating a loose ideological label like a deployable enemy force, then inviting a fresh round of backlash over law, civil liberties, and basic seriousness.
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