More on that from @micahflee here. theintercept.com/2020/07/15/blu…
That's true but there are other issues here worth noting.
While that designation has not come for legal and logistical reasons, Barr followed up with an announcement that Joint Terrorism Task Forces would be dispatched nationwide to find antifa “instigators”
Barr recently said the government is pursuing more than 500 protest-related investigations focused on “hardcore instigators.”
Overall, however, the documents show federal law enforcement chasing wild and frequently baseless leads on the administration’s antifa angle.
“We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing.”
As @RethinkIntel said, “This rhetoric, reinforced by the attorney general, is not falling on unsympathetic ears.”
@kathleen_belew said here: that when it comes to legacies of the far-right and anti-fascists in the U.S., the histories are not equivalent.
One has a bodycount. The other does not.