Geopolitics
The Phantom Menace: How U.S. Fascism Constructs 'Antifa' to Justify Authoritarian Rule
The Trump administration has falsely designated anti-fascism ('antifa') as a domestic and global terrorist threat to justify crackdowns on dissent, mass deportations, and electoral strategy, while the real danger of organized far-right violence and anti-democratic policy is downplayed. This cynical inversion of reality is a classic tool of imperialist and fascistic states to criminalize opposition, destroy lives, and prepare the ground for wider authoritarian rule, directly mirroring colonial tactics used to suppress the Global South.
