While a Texas ICE facility was besieged by an armed ANTIFA cell on the Fourth of July, and an insurance CEO was murdered by an assassin engraving bullet casings with ANTIFA slogans, The Washington Post dedicated hundreds of words this week to the shocking claim that "left-wing terrorism" is somehow "difficult to categorize." Apparently, arson and Molotov cocktails were "mostly peaceful" in 2020, but a coordinated attack involving dozens of federal terrorism, explosives, and attempted murder convictions is now an unsolvable mystery.
This breathtaking display of cognitive dissonance came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio courageously assembled representatives from 60 nations to confront the very real "resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism." Far from being an overreach, Rubio's initiative is a long-overdue reckoning, finally saying the quiet part out loud about a threat the establishment media desperately tries to erase.
The Post's piece, dressed up as legitimate journalism, is nothing more than petulant drivel, leaning heavily on unnamed "analysts" who ponder whether gunning down an executive in the street even qualifies as a "left-wing" act. This from the same publication that labeled riots and widespread destruction as "mostly peaceful." The intellectual gymnastics required to deny the existence of a phenomenon when its perpetrators are being convicted on federal terrorism charges are truly astounding.
The hypocrisy doesn't stop there. The Post's authors, in a stunning act of journalistic self-sabotage, attempt to pretend ANTIFA doesn't exist even as they cite the group's operations across Europe. An anonymous European diplomat is quoted insisting, with a straight face, "We don’t have ANTIFA." Yet, in the very same article, by the very same reporters, The Post casually acknowledges that the State Department designated ANTIFA OST, a militant group in Germany (along with cells in Greece and Italy), as a foreign terrorist organization last November. So, which is it? Does Europe have ANTIFA or doesn't it? The Post can't even keep its own reporting consistent for six paragraphs, yet demands trust in its skepticism about the threat's existence. And somehow, they still expect Americans not to notice.
Perhaps the real "consternation" among these European diplomats isn't about being lectured on domestic politics. What if they fear pointed questions from American intelligence-sharing about who is actually funding and organizing these "loosely knit" networks in their own countries? What if those funding trails lead back to Beijing's Belt and Road partners and CCP-linked NGOs, quietly propping up far-Left instability across Europe and Latin America? We've seen this playbook before, with figures like Beijing's Neville Roy Singham funding groups to foment illegal blockades. No administration wants to explain why their "spontaneous" anarchist movements consistently arrive with professional-grade logistics and foreign wire transfers. Voters in Argentina, El Salvador, and Colombia have already shown what happens when these receipts come out: the hard-Left establishment gets tossed out.
While legitimate legal debates exist regarding the designation of decentralized movements, The Washington Post chose not to engage with careful legal questions. Instead, it published thousands of words insisting the entire premise of left-wing terrorism is manufactured, even as this decentralized movement racks up a body count that includes a Fortune 500 CEO, an ICE detainee, and the most prominent conservative activist of his generation. If The Washington Post can't see the pattern, it's not because the pattern is invisible. It’s because acknowledging it would mean admitting that six years of "mostly peaceful" was always a calculated lie. The American public deserves better than this orchestrated denial from the establishment media; it deserves the truth about those who seek to undermine law and order, both at home and abroad.
