Ted Cruz's "Antifa Are Terrorists" Resolution Seeks to Stifle the Left

The far right traffics heavily in projection, and this “antifa panic” is no exception. The far right is desperately trying to depict the radical left as doing what the far right itself is actually guilty of: engaging in sustained, murderous violence with deliberate indifference from the highest levels of the government.
The resolution introduced by Cassidy and Cruz “calls for the groups and organizations across the country who act under the banner of Antifa to be designated as domestic terrorist organizations.” But the text of the resolution is wildly inconsistent and inaccurate. For example, as Jessica Kwong points out in Newsweek, the resolution refers interchangeably to “antifa,” those “affiliated with Antifa,” and “left wing activists.” Kwong points to an instance in which the resolution takes an opinion piece by a far-right propagandist in The Wall Street Journal and represents it as a news article. The opinion piece refers to three incidents involving opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by “left-wing activists” — whereas antifa is focused squarely on working to contain far-right actors who are not part of the government.