Spencer Sunshine: Blaming it on Antifa

Trump’s Crisis Scapegoats

The Battleground, June 5, 2020

The year 2020 has been filled with wild plot twists, from the Coronavirus pandemic to a national uprising against white supremacy in the United States.

One of the strangest twists has been the anti-fascist movement being thrust back into the spotlight.

This is because President Donald Trump has scapegoated Antifa and anarchists for fomenting what is, in reality, a spontaneous-but-African American-led rebellion against white supremacist policing, the likes of which the country has not seen in decades.

The rebellion is so powerful it is approaching the riots that rocked American cities in the 1960s.

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