Eli Lake, Columnist

A Modest Proposal for America's Fascists and Anti-Fascists

The masked "antifa" anarchists have more in common with the Tiki-torch Nazis than with American ideals.

August 29, 2017 at 11:26 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

"Antifa" is a misnomer for this rogue wing of the "safe space" movement.
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As America feels like it's coming apart at the seams, I have a modest proposal. The hard-right and hard-left activists who so enjoy protesting one another should meet every few weekends in a large national park and have at it.

The rest of us could begin to treat this wave of street agitation as the sideshow it is.