Antifa aren't actually Anti-Fascist at all
Antifa isn’t anti-fascism the way the name implies—it’s a specific political tradition with specific roots. The original Antifaschistische Aktion was a German Communist Party front in the early 1930s, explicitly Marxist-Leninist, fighting the Nazis not because Nazis were authoritarian but because they were the wrong kind of authoritarian—rival socialists competing for the same working class. It was left versus left with a branding advantage.
Every GI who stormed Normandy was technically anti-fascist but would be canceled by modern Antifa before breakfast—wrong views on race, gender, religion, sexuality, all of it. The “greatest generation” would be called fascists by the people who claim their mantle. That contradiction alone should end the argument.
Modern Antifa inherited the aesthetics and the street-fighting tradition but replaced the coherent ideology with a kind of performative radicalism that serves mostly as a jobs program for mask-wearing white kids with skateboards and misdemeanor records who have appointed themselves protectors of communities that never asked for the coverage. The name is marketing. The product is something else entirely.