To be fair, antifa also lost in their cause as well, in fact the first time I've ever heard of the group was after Trump's election victory. I never learned of them in my primary or even my college education.
So those advocating for antifa's methods are also highlighting a losing strategy in the context of Nazi Germany. Did Hitler use them as an excuse to put their citizen in internment camps? I'm sure he would have done something like that.
Luckily Trump isn't too good at this, and he's burned so many bridges of those in power that could assist him with his ends that his odds of pulling off an authoritarian overthrow is decreasing with every day. Antifa may declare victory here (though Trump's self-destructive behavior did the most damage than any form of activism), but when Trump fails are they going to go away? Or will they stick around and harass any Republican candidate as a fascist and move the goal posts? I think many are concerned that the later would be the case. People who start movements get addicted to leading them and don't tend to defuse them once the catalyst that got them together just because the reasoning they got together is no longer about.
To be fair, antifa also lost in their cause as well, in fact the first time I've ever heard of the group was after Trump's election victory. I never learned of them in my primary or even my college education.
So those advocating for antifa's methods are also highlighting a losing strategy in the context of Nazi Germany. Did Hitler use them as an excuse to put their citizen in internment camps? I'm sure he would have done something like that.
Luckily Trump isn't too good at this, and he's burned so many bridges of those in power that could assist him with his ends that his odds of pulling off an authoritarian overthrow is decreasing with every day. Antifa may declare victory here (though Trump's self-destructive behavior did the most damage than any form of activism), but when Trump fails are they going to go away? Or will they stick around and harass any Republican candidate as a fascist and move the goal posts? I think many are concerned that the later would be the case. People who start movements get addicted to leading them and don't tend to defuse them once the catalyst that got them together just because the reasoning they got together is no longer about.