I wrote a VIP piece a couple of days back about my, I guess you'd call it, a pet peeve. It's when people in any way try to conflate the soldiers who fought World War II with Antifa, the kids who run around with masks in black hoodies. I think the first person I noticed doing this was Chris Cuomo, way back when he still had a show on CNN. I'm not sure how many years ago this was, but Cuomo had posted a photo of Normandy with a caption something like, "the original Antifa." His buddy at the network at the time, Don Lemon, tried to explain to us as if we were children that Antifa literally is short for anti-fascist, so Antifa was necessarily a good thing.
Now that the Trump administration has upgraded Antifa from "just an idea" to a domestic terror organization (finally), I'm seeing an uptick in these posts. I couldn't support Winsome Earle-Sears more than I do now, but I was thrilled to see her set someone else straight.
Comparing Antifa to the heroes buried at Arlington National Cemetery is beyond the pale—and the Shenandoah Democrats should be ashamed.
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 18, 2025
Abigail Spanberger needs to denounce this today. pic.twitter.com/x1AqjgxORr
That final sentence reads, "There are 400,000 members there." Comparing those buried at Arlington to the kids who laid siege to a federal courthouse in Portland is repulsive. As I said in my other piece, don't denigrate our heroes by calling them something they never called themselves. They were fighting actual fascism — the real thing.
You know…they’re saying that…because WWII veterans…fought against the fascists…in Germany right?
— Matt Royer (@royermattw) October 18, 2025
It's important to me that you know that. https://t.co/io4w37MJv3
Sorry, comparing masked Antifa agitators who block roads, burn and loot stores =\= storming the beaches of Normandy.
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 18, 2025
But I guess that’s what Virginia Democrats think of our war heroes. https://t.co/RaUyXkG0tz
I've rarely ever seen such rank character assassination as what I've witnessed recently with the left telling me that there was no difference between these guys and Antifa. pic.twitter.com/oR2IT3agfk
— Snaaling (@Snaaling3) October 18, 2025
Agreed, 100 percent.
This is absolute horse shit. Antifa is designated an organized terror cell. To draw inference that those who bravely fought and died are the same is insane. Arlington National Cemetery is full of heroes. We have a guard protecting that! pic.twitter.com/rMb30DlfMZ
— mike caggiano (@mikecaggiano1) October 18, 2025
Imagine the heroes of WWI and WWII seeing these purple headed, fat, septum pierced, men wearing dresses …. Then imagine someone comparing these freaks to them.
— Phil Bierman - IFBB Pro (@BiermanPhilip) October 18, 2025
My father and uncle (foster father), both WWII vets, would be appalled at this false comparison. Antifa is akin to Rohm's Brownshirts (SA). Both are assault divisions: one of NAZI Germany and the other of the US Democrat party.
— mizpersnickety (@rocketjane1) October 18, 2025
I can envision those cherished heroes at Arlington collectively rolling over in their graves at such a colossal dismissal of who they actually fought, and the America they died for.
— cec carey (@dodderinggramma) October 18, 2025
There's no comparison, and anyone who tries to make one is defiling the memory of those buried at Arlington. Let's see how many of these clowns running around in masks and black hoodies have that honor.
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