RegendansTrump’s first ‘antifa’ prosecution is a warning to the left - The case against the Prairieland Nine is an attempt to put a face on Maga’s mythical enemy, even as masked ICE agents terrorise communities with impunity
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That’s when I found the T-shirt with two flags – one black, one red – inspired by a German communist group from the Weimar era called Antifaschistiche Aktion. If Trump or his proxies wanted to brand me a terrorist, I thought, they’d have to contend with the history of the people who resisted the Nazis. By being against anti-fascism, the Maga movement made it clear what it stood for.
Perhaps I was being naive. On 13 March, a jury in north Texas convicted nine people of a range of federal charges, including providing material support to terrorists, for an incident outside an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention facility in Prairieland, near Fort Worth. The government prosecutor alleged that the defendants were members of an antifa cell on the basis that they were dressed all in black, wearing surgical masks and in possession of leftist zines. One of them had a sticker that depicted a stick figure throwing a swastika in a bin. On these grounds, my T-shirt would have landed me in Guantánamo.
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