Worse than Antifa: Inside the new breed of ultra-extremist groups dedicated to chaos, violence — and even alleged murder
The far-left radical movement known as Antifa has been getting its own taste of cancel culture.
Just look at what happened on Aug. 19 in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Masked, fist-clenched agitators belonging to the anarchist collective turned up to sow chaos — but locals banded together to confront the troublemakers, telling them to get lost...
Experts who track domestic terrorism and extremist movements aren’t surprised: Once the face of a grassroots leftwing insurgency, Antifa has lost its spark...
But experts warn that could be a dangerous thing, as the vacuum has given way to even more fringe and violent offshoots that are coalescing in the Marxist ether...
Last month, Benjamin Song, a member of the Antifa militant groups Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club and the Socialist Rifle Association, led a group of 10 radicals — eight of whom were found living in a reportedly squalid transgender commune — in an armed ambush at an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. The shooting left one officer injured.
Antifa expert Mauro concurs: These elders, usually operating under anonymous online accounts or with the protection of well-funded nonprofits, know how to plant the seeds for vulnerable members to commit violent acts — without giving explicit, traceable instructions.
Lately, the most extreme sects seem to have a large number of transgender members. Nadales believes that it is by design.
“One thing about counterrevolutionary movements is that they will look for people who they believe are rejected by society, and they will embrace them,” he told the Post. “It’s not necessarily the fact they are transgender — rather, they see the transgender movement as a revolutionary group, so it’s the new vehicle to attack ‘the system.’”
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