ANTI-ANTI
A Turning Point USA alum and Trump diehard-turned-state rep has a new project. But even his fellow Republicans have doubts.
Kelly Weill
Reporter
Updated Mar. 02, 2021 12:33PM ET / Published Mar. 02, 2021 4:57AM ET
Chaos. Incivility. Lack of respect for authority.
Those are the things a Montana lawmaker accuses anti-fascists of in a new resolution intended to designate the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”
But the measure is struggling to get off the ground, and the 20-year-old MAGA acolyte-turned-state lawmaker pushing it seems to be the reason why.
“He misbehaved. He got a little out of control in committee and I think most of the co-sponsors pulled out then.”
— Republican State Rep. Larry Brewster
Days after far-right rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol, Montana state Rep. Braxton Mitchell introduced a resolution aimed at the opposite end of the political spectrum: “antifa,” the loosely affiliated left-wing anti-fascist movement. Nevermind that “antifa” is not a centralized group, nor that the United States government makes no such designations of “domestic terror.”
The bill is the latest attempt to push penalties on the left even as national-security experts plead with lawmakers to watch for new attacks from the far right. Unlike previous anti-anti-fascist bills, however, this one’s biggest stumbling block might be its own sponsor.
More:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/20-year-old-maga-pol-montana-state-rep-braxton-mitchell-declares-war-on-antifa-and-it-backfires-horribly
