How the antifa movement has metastasized

By design, antifa is a decentralized, left-wing movement of loosely knit “resistance” networks operating primarily in Democratic strongholds. But in recent years, antifa’s forces have become highly organized and increasingly sophisticated, with organized crime cells cropping up across the country. Part 1 of this Washington Examiner series, Antifa, Inc., will dispel the modern mythos and misconceptions surrounding antifa as well as document its rise in America, recruitment practices, and well-coordinated crimes.

“Antifa is an idea, not an organization,” former President Joe Biden, then the Democratic nominee, declared on the 2020 debate stage.

“Not a militia,” Biden insisted, amid more than 100 consecutive nights of antifa-led attacks on federal property, police precincts, and downtown businesses in Portland.

Antifa, short for antifascism, is indeed an extremist ideology, a

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