What is antifa and why is Donald Trump targeting it?

Donald Trump promised on Twitter this week that “the United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization”.

Legal experts immediately threw cold water on the proposal, arguing that there may be no means by which any domestic entity can be designated in this way.

But, perhaps more importantly, experts also say that there is no actual antifa organization for Trump to define in this way. Put simply: antifa does not really exist as a distinct entity.

Then what is antifa?

Antifa is a useful umbrella term that denotes a broad spectrum of groups and individuals of far-left or anarchist tendencies. The term itself means simply anti-fascist.

Mark Bray, a historian and the author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook, said in a telephone conversation that antifa is a loose movement of “decentralized revolutionary self defense” opposed to the far right.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/antifa-why-donald-trump-targeting-100019573.html

Antifa is a boogeyman designed to get righties to shit their collective pants.