By Douglas V. Gibbs
The first time I personally faced off with Antifa was when they appeared during my third speaking event for the College Republicans at UC Riverside. Antifa lined the stairs to the venue, forcing four brave students to escort me through what felt like a battlefield. I remember thinking, “The flak gets heavier when you’re over the target.” That day confirmed for me that I was doing something right as a constitutionalist.
While Democrats claim Antifa doesn’t exist, I can tell you from firsthand experience that they do. They are real, organized, and well funded.
Antifa is not your typical leftist organization. They are anarcho-communists, intent on tearing down the American system so that they can raise a new communist order from the rubble. They claim all they are doing is protesting, but what we are watching is insurrection. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution authorizes the federal government without state approval to suppress such insurrections when they threaten the United States.
Antifa is a militant force, encouraged to get arrested, trained to be violent, and it is becoming clear that they are funded through laundered taxpayer dollars. We’ve seen their chaos in Portland, Seattle, and even North Carolina, where a masked individual opened fire at a Donald Trump supporter’s home.
Their violence is emboldened by rhetoric from the radical left and their Democratic Party counterparts. Whether through Antifa, or other extremist channels, they are signaling their intent to silence opposition by any means necessary. According to InfoWars, “They want to kill us.”
Texas congressional candidate Jolanda Jones told CNN, “I’m from the hood…I’m gonna go across your neck.” Was that a veiled reference to the horrific shooting of Charlie Kirk?
In Los Angeles, schoolteacher and prominent anti-ICE activist Ron Gochez warned, “They are not the only ones with guns in this city.” Another video revealed an elementary schoolteacher pointing her fingers to her neck in an obvious mocking of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
These aren’t simply individuals with isolated outbursts. The theme runs through the left as a part of a broader movement that trains to be disruptive, destructive, and, in their own words, “ungovernable.”
The message is clear: the radical left is embracing political violence. Whether through Antifa or other extremist channels, they are signaling their intent to silence opposition by any means necessary.
Candidates like Jay Jones openly fantasizing about murdering political opponents has drawn no condemnation from the Democratic Party. There has been no accountability. Instead, they mock the assassination of Charlie Kirk and entertain fantasies of a “successful” Trump assassination attempt.
They have a darkness within them. They are chasing evil in ways that go way beyond insurrection. What we are seeing is moral collapse. They are crossing a line that is not reversible. And as they unleash chaos while daring President Trump to respond, I’m reminded of the schoolyard bully poking a kid in the chest, daring him to take the first swing. I pray that we handle this with wisdom and resolve. Constitutionally, the Trump administration has every authority to treat this as insurrection and deploy the National Guard if necessary. The lower courts may fumble, but the Constitution is clear.
One thing is certain: the American people are watching. And come 2026, they’ll have their say in the Midterm Elections – not with bricks or Molotovs, but with ballots.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
