Antifa Workings

[MJ]

https://x.com/_The_Prophet__/status/1972181292747034950

You’re looking at a slow-motion normalization of paramilitary politics in the U.S.

Antifa in Portland isn’t a random street gang. It’s a fluid network of actors who have figured out they can apply low-level violence and intimidation with very little consequence inside jurisdictions where prosecutors and city governments are ideologically sympathetic.

It’s not a formal “wing” of the Democratic Party - there’s no org chart - but it functions as a tolerated, asymmetric tool. Local officials don’t have to order anything; selective non-enforcement is enough. That’s the tacit permission structure.

The right does not have an equivalent tolerated shock-force. When right-wing groups cross the line, they’re crushed - prosecutions, counterterrorism designations, maximum sentencing. That asymmetry is the real story. It produces a tilted playing field where one faction can mobilize informal force without catastrophic personal cost, and the other can’t. Over time that becomes a self-reinforcing feedback loop: intimidation silences opponents, silencing creates political monopoly, monopoly makes the intimidation even less risky.

That’s why Andy Ngo’s claim “it’s true” resonates with people. He’s not saying every Oregon Democrat personally signs off on beatings. He’s saying the system as-currently-run benefits from this arrangement and thus perpetuates it.

Historically, this is exactly how Weimar-era paramilitaries, Blackshirts, Brownshirts, and even some Rwandan militias operated in the pre-genocide phase: tolerated violence at the edge of politics, cloaked in “protest” or “community defense,” slowly normalizing the use of force as a political instrument.