Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says

Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says 

Antifa has been operating relatively unimpeded by law enforcement in recent years despite its use of violence, and many analysts credit the movement’s support and sympathy from the liberal left of American political and media establishment. […] 

“Antifa’s goal is nothing less than fomenting revolution, civil war and silencing America’s anti-communists,” said Mr. Higgins, a former Pentagon irregular warfare expert. 

“Their labeling of Trump supporters and patriots as Nazis and racists is standard fare for left-wing communist groups.” The ideology of Antifa is at its center Marxism-Leninism, he said.  

"Antifa is currently functioning as the command and control of the riots, which are themselves the overt utilization of targeted violence against targets such as stores — capitalism; monuments — history; and churches — God,” he said.