Inventing Antifa / Lauren Fadiman

The government is able to use these real fights that are happening and these hoaxes to astroturf a larger moral panic about Antifa. It gets tacked on to this history of anti-fascism that's mostly in Europe. There’s also a history of it in the US, but there's no real connection. The connection between these groups is as strong as the connection between my employer, Jacobin, and the actual French Revolution. The language pays homage, but there’s no actual through line between the two.