Antifa fights against fascism, neo-fascism,neo-Nazis, White power, and racism. That seems pretty good to me. I am non-violent, they are not. They are no scary boogiemen to me. Their mission is positive.
It really perfectly demonstrates the ignorance of Donald Trump and his Trumptards, just by their misuse of the term Fascist, and who they deem as being Fascist!
Especially when they cannot even understand the acronym ANTIFA- The English word antifa is a loanword from German, taken as a shortened form of the word antifaschistisch ("anti-fascist") and the name of Antifaschistische Aktion which inspired the wider Antifa movement in Germany.
Activists engage in varied protest tactics, including digital activism, property damage and physical violence, and harassment against those whom they identify as fascist, racist, or on the far-right.
Antifa is not an interconnected or unified organization but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals. Activists typically organize protests via social media and through websites. Some activists have built peer-to-peer networks, or use encrypted-texting services like Signal. Chauncey Devega of Salon described antifa as an organizing strategy, not a group of people. The antifa movement has grown since the 2016 United States presidential election. As of August 2017, approximately 200 groups existed, of varying sizes and levels of activity.
The vast majority of anti-fascist organizing is nonviolent. But their willingness to physically defend themselves and others from white supremacist violence and preemptively shut down fascist organizing efforts before they turn deadly, distinguishes them from liberal anti-racists.
There have been multiple efforts to discredit antifa groups via hoaxes on social media, many of them false flag attacks originating from alt-right and 4chan protagonists posing as antifa backers on Twitter. Some of these hoaxes have been picked up and reported as fact by right-leaning media.
These include an August 2017 "#PunchWhiteWomen" photo hoax campaign spread by fake antifa Twitter accounts. In one such instance, Bellingcat researcher Eliot Higgins discovered an image of British actress Anna Friel portraying a battered woman in a 2007 Women's Aid anti-domestic violence campaign that had been re-purposed using fake antifa Twitter accounts organized by way of 4chan. The image is captioned "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this" and includes an antifa flag. Another image featuring an injured woman is captioned "She chose to be a Nazi. Choices have consequences" and includes the hashtag #PunchANazi. Higgins remarked to the BBC that "[t]his was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future". A similar fake image circulated on social media after the Unite the Right rally; the doctored image, actually from a 2009 riot in Athens, was altered to make it look like someone wearing an antifa symbol attacking a policeman with a flag.] After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, similar hoaxes falsely claimed that the shooter was an antifa "member"; another such hoax involved a fake antifa Twitter account praising the shooting Another high-profile fake antifa account was banned from Twitter after it posted with a geotag originating in Russia. Such fake antifa accounts have been repeatedly reported on as real by right-leaning media outlets.
On May 31, 2020, a newly created Twitter account, @ANTIFA_US, attempted to incite violence relating to the nationwide George Floyd protests against police brutality and racism. The next day, after determining that it was linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, Twitter suspended the fake account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)