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Uncle Joe

(66,197 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:20 PM 4 hrs ago

"Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute": Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups



Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit "on the resurgence of political terrorism," where Miller described the left as "enemies of civilization" and described efforts to "disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country." Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more left-wing groups as terrorist organizations. Also on Thursday, the State Department announced new visa restrictions targeting what it calls "members of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups."

"They're putting political groups in the United States and abroad on the same footing as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS," says independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been closely following the Trump administration's designation of left-wing activism as terrorism.

"This effort to designate left-wing groups as foreign terrorists using these broad terms like 'antifa' will allow them to go after people who are not committing violence but who are simply engaging in the political process," adds former FBI special agent Mike German.
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"Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute": Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups (Original Post) Uncle Joe 4 hrs ago OP
And people thought that Rubio would be a voice of reason in this administration? He is just another very small man OGBuzz 4 hrs ago #1
As timothy Snyder says, "Don't comply in advance". jmbar2 4 hrs ago #2
Neither one of those... GiqueCee 4 hrs ago #3
They experimented with these tactics against the rest of us malaise 4 hrs ago #4
Even though the FBI had produced reports backed up by crime stats and investigative evidence that alt Right were violent ChicagoTeamster 3 hrs ago #5

OGBuzz

(1,079 posts)
1. And people thought that Rubio would be a voice of reason in this administration? He is just another very small man
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:30 PM
4 hrs ago

deserving of nobody's respect.

jmbar2

(8,327 posts)
2. As timothy Snyder says, "Don't comply in advance".
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:32 PM
4 hrs ago
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

GiqueCee

(5,306 posts)
3. Neither one of those...
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:32 PM
4 hrs ago

... malignant skidmarks deserves to live among decent people. ESPECIALLY Stephen Miller.
ANTIFA is short for anti-fascist. If they are against Antifa, then they are, by definition, for fascism.
My father, and your fathers and grandfathers, fought in WWII to rid the world of fascism. Now these evil bastards would defile their memories by branding them as terrorists, just to please the worst excuse for a president – excuse me, the worst excuse for a human being – in the history of America.
May their remaining days be few.

malaise

(300,317 posts)
4. They experimented with these tactics against the rest of us
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:44 PM
4 hrs ago

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Now they have taken it home.
Wake up folks

ChicagoTeamster

(1,612 posts)
5. Even though the FBI had produced reports backed up by crime stats and investigative evidence that alt Right were violent
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 02:38 PM
3 hrs ago

and that there were no significant numbers of organized leftist groups.

In the US, the weather underground, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and MOVE were long gone but Aryan Nations, CSA, the klan, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Patriot Front, The Base, Atomwaffen Division, and many other mostly white right wing groups still exist.

In the US today there is no organized Antifa like you have in Western Europe. And the ones in Europe are not the terror groups of the 70s and early 80s such as Baader-Meinhof (GR), Red Brigade (IT), Black September, and Action Directe (FR) who actually carried out bombings and kidnappings. The US has mostly non violent protest groups that come together under the banner of being anti fascist but there is no known antifa organization with leaders, a headquarters, and known members. BLM are also a decentralized active protest group but they have a smaller core organization that organized tens of thousands of other protesters during the George Floyd protests.

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