General Discussion

making this a false extrapolation to, according to them, that the Democratic Party is a false identity because this is a "republic" so the Republican Party is the true identity of the country. I've answered comments like that by telling them that the FORMS OF GOVERNMENT (republic, democracy) have nothing to do with the names of the parties beyond reflecting ideals.

*** I learned from the OP about the specialized history, but submit that in the current rhetorical propanda world, the MAGAts are totally ignorant of the history and are using the label as a mere shorthand slur. Same as when I encountered somebody new to politics who claimed that the Democratic Party was extremist and committing bombings and such. I was caught off guard and this mystification gnawed at me until the next encounter when I demanded to know what he was basing this on. He replied that it was from news accounts of Environmentalists perpetrating acts of defacing things and even more acts of violence in protests. I was relieved and told him that stewardship of the environment is certainly a part of the Democratic agenda but that the very specialized, one-issue activism to the point of violence is not usually representative of the whole party.

I submit that the MAGAt use of "antifa" is not the intelligent use, just a shorthand insult, like all of their pre-teen/KRASNOV insults. Further, I think that we ourselves are "anti-Fascist" in the context of KRASNOV's tendencies.