“Antifa” then and now

From the most recent installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American. The subject is an “Antifa roundtable” with the current occupant of the White House and various conspiracy theorists:

“Antifa” is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.” During the meeting, influencer Jack Posobiec — a proponent of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory — warned that “Antifa” went back all the way to Germany’s Weimar Republic. As Holly Baxter of The Independent pointed out, “it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis.”

Here’s a link to the Holly Baxter article. I haven’t seen this detail reported elsewhere.

[At the risk of pointing out the obvious, there is no organization called Antifa. I’ve added quotation marks to the first word in the quoted passage.]