Trump was smart to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization. What happens inside the organization is crazy.
And now an Antifa whistleblower confesses shocking secrets from within.
Antifa Insider Details Decade-Long Involvement and Departure
An individual identifying as Eric, a former Antifa participant, shared on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime Thursday that he exited the group—recently labeled a terrorist organization—after 10 years, citing mounting internal demands and exclusionary tactics.
On Sept. 17, President Donald Trump announced the designation of militant far-left network Antifa as a terrorist organization and called for investigations into its financial backers. Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Eric, who wore a face mask to protect his identity, whether the organization’s ideology was “full blown communism.”
“I mean, a lot of it is. So a lot of it is — these are accelerationism. It’s not the slow march to the institutions. It is, ‘We want this, and we want it now,’” Eric said.
“One of the reasons that I got out of it is probably around 2014, 15, we started seeing groups come up to Seattle and Portland from California, and they were much more like, ‘Hey, you better get in line with this,’ and if you’re not, there’s consequences and there’s pressure.”
Early Recruitment and Shift Toward Confrontation
Antifa traces its U.S. origins to 2007 but surged into public view during the 2020 unrest, contributing to disturbances in Democratic-led cities like Seattle and Portland. Trump first pledged in May 2020 to designate the group as terrorists in response to widespread protests.
Watters inquired if Eric faced compulsion toward violence as a member.
“Oh, not only that, but there was pressure, there was ostracization, things of that nature where you might get into it, say, because you don’t like bigotry in the music scene,” Eric said.
“And then later on, it’s, ‘You’re gonna adhere to these tenets, and you’re gonna say and think these ways.’ And if you’re on the fence at all, ‘Silence is violence’ and, ‘Your comrades are gonna become a problem for you,’ you know?”
Eric recounted joining as a high school freshman, initially drawn to recruiting peers, with violence emerging as a secondary draw. By the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, he described himself as primed for action.
“I had little Molotov cocktails in my bedroom and a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook that I had photoshopped or photocopied at the time from a friend of mine’s older brother,” Eric said.
“At the time, I’m like, ‘Oh, this is just a good time.’ It’s only later on that you get more involved with the ideas, the philosophies, the direct- action ideologies that go deeper into later on becoming like a full-blown anarcho-communist and syndicalist.”
As part of Trump’s recent crackdown on Antifa, he announced Saturday the deployment of troops to Portland to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities from the group.
