I have to agree with you here. Now I don't know enough about Antifa to either support or criticize them but there is no room for violence and rioting. Not in public discourse or assembly.
Now don't get me wrong the White Nationalist, NeoNazis, KKK and ilk that showed up at Charlottesville obviously spoiling for a fight get little sympathy from me for getting their asses kicked and the record shows Antifa's presence was a small one and a minority of th anti protesters who engaged the other knuckle heads at Charlottesville.
Now if Antifa is engaged in violence elsewhere I condemn that.
Having said that now that Antifa has become the new boogeymen of the far right KKKonservatives that make them shit and piss themselves in fear I like to remind those same far right KKKonservatives that my Grandfather (who served under Patton) and my Great Uncle (who was a liberator pilot and was nearly executed for attempting to escape a pow camp) were also anti fascist and they were called the greatest generation...but I can be an asshole like that.
Now having said that in no way am I stereotyping all Republicans or conservatives as far right KKK racist. Obviously the large majority of them are not. Nor do I have tolerance for any political extremist of any stripe who resort to violence to advance their cause. Fuck them. Throw them all and Watermark in prison and let the rats eat them.
However, Cypress (or was it BAC?) is spot on right. A significant percentage of the GOP coalition are openly racist and far right true believers commit the most politically motivated acts of violence and terrorism in the last 30 + years than any other extremist groups in our nation. Far more than far left extremist have in that time. In fact violent acts by far left extremist in that time period are almost statistically insignificant compared to those committed by the far right. This a problem for the GOP as their silence and tolerance of them in their midst leads to the misperception that all conservatives are either bigoted or extremist. The GOP has no one to blame but themselves for that.