What if Antifa is not mostly far left political ideologues who believe violence is justified? What if it is mostly young violent people looking for an excuse (anti-Fascism) & a place (Portland) to commit violence? Does anyone know who these people are? Any demographics? Profiles?
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A great counterexample to his view is that in Sweden, the social democratic government illegally suppressed, monitored, registered Swedish communists for decades using a covert military foreign intelligence service, even as late as the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB_affair
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Many counter-protesters are also arrested during Nazi demonstrations in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20190501/hundreds-gather-to-protest-neo-nazi-march-in-sweden … So even in a country many Americans view as "most socialist in the western world", far left violence is taken seriously and not ignored like Shermer wants to imply.
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