The NYT glowingly profiles the Antifa thugs (“‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right”), featuring a flattering photograph of Miss Moldylocks herself!
Unlike most of the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville and elsewhere, members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy. As explained this week by a dozen adherents of the movement, the ascendant new right in the country requires a physical response.
“People are starting to understand that neo-Nazis don’t care if you’re quiet, you’re peaceful,” said Emily Rose Nauert, a 20-year-old antifa member who became a symbol of the movement in April when a white nationalist leader punched her in the face during a melee near the University of California, Berkeley.
“You need violence in order to protect nonviolence,” Ms. Nauert added. “That’s what’s very obviously necessary right now. It’s full-on war, basically.”… The closest thing antifa may have to a guiding principle is that ideologies it identifies as fascistic or based on a belief in genetic inferiority cannot be reasoned with and must be physically resisted. Its adherents express disdain for mainstream liberal politics, seeing it as inadequately muscular, and tend to fight the right though what they call “direct actions” rather than relying on government authorities.
Here’s a brief clip of Mrs. Nauert (aka Moldylocks) looking not so glamorous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFo-ETO5Kg
