Andy Ngo is the expert on Antifa and violent left-wing extremists, not me. If you don't follow his work, you should. Every day, he risks his life--that is no exaggeration--to expose the rise of violent left-wing extremism and the dangers of a burgeoning terrorist movement that aims to take down America and all Western Civilization.
Yes, I know that many people you know think that this is hyperbole, but those people are naive almost to the point of being willfully ignorant. They will admit that there are crazy leftists, but comfort themselves that they are fringy, and in a trivially true sense, they are fringy in the way that all violent revolutionary groups are.
But there is fringe, and there is fringe. In the 1970s, there was a significant number of fellow travelers for radical leftist groups--up to the point that prominent liberals dabbled in radical politics and even virtue-signaled to each other by cosying up to them. When enough culturally significant people become enamored with radicals, they can become a major political force and even a threat to the social order.
INSANE: "Study Exposes 'Assassination Culture' On The Left"
— NRCC (@NRCC) September 20, 2025
A study found more than half of self-identified 'progressives' said killing President Trump is justified pic.twitter.com/zYVF9n3VjK
We are there again, and I think it might turn out to be worse than the 1970s because a significant fraction of the Democratic Party leadership, while not strictly allied with the radicals, finds them useful because the most energized part of their base lusts for violent confrontation.
"There needs to be blood": Democrats' voters tell them to "get shot" in Trump resistance push https://t.co/tqOWVnFshu
— Axios (@axios) July 7, 2025
There needs to be blood. That message is being told to Democratic Party politicians at their TOWN HALLS.
At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.
Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law.
- "This idea that we're going to save every norm and that we're not going to play [Republicans'] game ... I don't think that's resonating with voters anymore," said one House Democrat.
- Another told Axios that a "sense of fear and despair and anger" among voters "puts us in a different position where ... we can't keep following norms of decorum."
Now, I guarantee you that the average politician does not want to get shot. But he wants to get reelected, too, so violent rhetoric and moral support for violence is an easy compromise. They will still make pro-forma statements against violence, but those statements are, for most of them, pro forma.
The author of The Antifa Handbook is a tenured professor at Rutger, and my own Attorney General hawked the book.
I believe he was, at the time, the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, or was soon after.
Here is my Lieutenant Governor, and likely soon to be one of my Senators.
Kill the TERFS! is pretty common too.
There is an organization called The John Brown Gun Club that trains Antifa and Trantifa activists on the use of violence, and members are among those who have been arrested for shooting at ICE agents.
These people all belonged to the Elm Fork branch of the John Brown Gun Club. pic.twitter.com/2hiCMp10tO
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
They recruit on college campuses freely, as does Antifa, and money flows indirectly from left-wing Democratic Party donors down to various violent groups and their legal defense funds.
John Brown Club needs to be categorized as a domestic terrorist group. https://t.co/bC2ZwkV2zf
— Caroline (@carolinecwilder) September 24, 2025
Those legal defense funds are extremely wealthy and active, bailing out violent terrorists from jail quickly when the charges are modest, and almost as quickly when they are not.
Ngo scoop: Of the 17 members of a north Texas Antifa/John Brown Gun Club cell accused of being part of or helping those involved with an ambush terrorist attack on an ICE facility, one managed to bail out.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 24, 2025
Dario E. Sanchez, who was charged with tampering with or fabricating… https://t.co/BDNYqSVoIn pic.twitter.com/WFtVz1lHst
Dario E. Sanchez, who was charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, had his $5m bail reduced to $1m, which he covered. But on Sept. 22, he was re-arrested, allegedly for violating his release conditions. He's now facing a charge of hindering the prosecution of terrorism. Did he go home and destroy evidence while out on bond?
An officer was shot in the neck in the attack in July, but survived. https://ngocomment.com/p/two-more-arrested-in-north-texas
The comparison to the Weather Underground is apt not just because the movement is very violent, but because the left-wing establishment's embrace of these terrorists is similar. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, after founding the Weather Underground and participating in a string of bombings that killed several people, evaded justice and wound up as academics at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Dohrn taught law there at Northwestern, believe it or not.
Two and a half minutes straight of Democrats calling for violence.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 16, 2025
How exactly is political violence a right-wing problem?pic.twitter.com/RNDGq8SLWT
Their names resurfaced in the 2008 presidential campaign because they played a key role in launching Barack Obama's political career. Obama, you may recall if you somehow forgot, was so popular with the Democrats that he took the Democrats' nomination for president from Hillary Clinton and remains one of the most popular Democrats in America.
Taylor Lorenz on Luigi Mangione
— Waterdisport 🇺🇸 (@WatrDi) April 15, 2025
‘oh my God, here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person that seems like this morally good man,’ which is hard to find."
He ASSASSINATED a man @TaylorLorenz 😳 pic.twitter.com/SbtDS4PG0B
Antifa and the John Brown Gun Club are two tentacles of a larger movement to foment revolution in the United States. That movement, as with the revolutionary movements in the 1960s and 70s, will not achieve its goal, but it will leave a trail of blood in its wake. And, unlike the 1970s, the Democratic Party establishment, not just its more leftward-leaning base, has cozied up to these people while they are still committing violent acts.
Jane Fonda and The View supported the idea of murdering Christian Pro-Lifers this month. They giggled like the wretched hyenas they are. Now that they have blood on their hands, do you think we will hear apologies? pic.twitter.com/aWYMuqaUOW
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) March 27, 2023
That's largely because academia and Hollywood are behind the movement in a way that was less true back then, when there was more ideological diversity in those fields. Jane Fonda didn't give up her career when she came out on the side of the communists, but she wasn't in the dominant cultural group among her peers.
"Summer of love."
— Benjamin 🇺🇲🇮🇱 (@tetuben) June 11, 2025
--Former Seattle Democrat Mayor Durkan pic.twitter.com/lDwNd49BOw
The violence is likely just beginning, and we will be treated to a lot of hemming and hawing from Democrats and Pravda. They know it is not popular with the wider public, but they also know that it is quite popular with their base, which is bloodthirsty. Literally so, as they keep telling their representatives.
An Antifa blog site is issuing a call for further attacks on @ICEgov facilities across the country.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 25, 2025
The post also explains Antifa's ideology: sociopathy, chaos, destruction and violence for the sake of "becoming ungovernable." This is why Antifa's focus changes from… pic.twitter.com/6Ijo4Tekwd
Even if Democrats pull back from their violent rhetoric--hint: They won't--it will not stop the violence. They lit the fuse, distributed the Molotov cocktails, and sent tens of millions of dollars out to the groups that fund the violence. They hired the previous generation of revolutionaries (did you know that Bill Ayers dedicated his book to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of RFK?) and pal around with him.
The NYT today described Antifa as follows;
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 25, 2025
"Antifa is a diffuse and sometimes [sic] violent protest culture of left-wing activists who want to stop the far right."
"[T]he modern antifa [sic] movement is associated with an aggressive form of protest that sometimes [sic] crosses…
What they say now is irrelevant. The revolutionaries are out there and mobilized. There will, indeed, be blood in the streets.
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