1) They gather in bunches
2) They are often frilly little things
3) They are thin and usually only protect a bunch of pu$$ies.

Just like the KKK before them. Which was also run by Democrats.

The Republicans, both MAGA and RINO versions, have never had such shock troops because most of the rank-and-file still believe in the rule of law. MAGA Republicans will have to get over that if they ever want to win.

Go to Wikipedia and look up Fascism core tenets. You'll see that, with the exception of "opposition to Communism", Antifa is nearly an exact match. If you adjust that line to read: "Opposition to competing forms of Communism" it fits very nicely.
Huey Long once answered “Do you think we will ever have Fascism in America?” with “Sure, only we’ll call it anti-Fascism.”
The Antifa Fascists are here, and Portland was our Kristallnacht.

Panty-Fah: They gather in bunches.

“No one chooses to be a refuge”

Actually yes they do. Those individuals have agency and used it by choosing not to stay there.

Of course, most of them are not and would not qualify as refugees anyway.

The Democrat party traded on their white pointy hoods for black ski masks and scarves

Michael Savage published Stop the Coming Civil War in 2014. Somewhat prophetic. And Sarah Palin asked if the left wants a revolution. We are following the blue print for communism, ie Venezuela, and if the dems are reelected in 2024 we are done. Will be a sad day for my grand-kids.

First of all, they're not "far-left." They're just leftist thugs. They represent the brown-shirts - the activist part of the Democratic Party which get an active pass for their actions. You watch. My prediction is that not a single one of these Antifa "protestors" will get actually sentenced to anything.

The Deep State has ordained that Antifa needs to domestic terrorist train in targeted Democrat cities for Trump's reelection~sardonically sayeth the dino.

Dems are lying two-faced weasel hypocrites?
I am shhhhhocked!

Yep, the libtards of NYC are getting what they voted for. I do feel sorry for the likes of Curtis Sliwa who try desperately to right the Titanic. Here's a line from the article: "The city's housing of 3,000 migrants in a tent city on Randall's Island..." makes me wonder if the libtards will allow burning of oil or gas fuels (or -gasp- coal) for heat when the snow flies.

libs and responsibility were separated at birth

along with common sense, logic, morals.... (it is a long list of things they lack)

i love of the dems of NYC cry for more money from DC
gee, they were a sanctuary city??

like all libs, they don't practice what they preached from the rest of us

As usual, Dems don't like to see the results of what they voted for--especially when it's right in their faces. And Antifa is there to violently put down any protest.

So the NYC locals who support open borders, as usual, refuse to accept responsibility for and the results of their actions.

In Jim Crow days, the KKK operated much the same as Hitler’s Brown Shirts—and today’s black-masked Antifa thugs are no different than either KKK or Nazi Brown Shirts. All three were and are just the thug-agents of political machines.

Buythem’s Dem Party wants tens of millions of destitute, English-illiterate illegal aliens in the US to outweigh, diminish influence of those who hold American traditional values. And Dem Party’s Antifa thugs are there to make sure Cancel Culture happens.