Despite multiple mainstream media reports that foretold widespread violence, destruction and unrest with Antifa’s weekend rallies in 22 U.S. cities, where millions of radical leftist protesters were supposed the show up, very few actually did.
Refuse Fascism – the group that organized the weekend’s multi-city rallies – were unable to organize “millions of people to drive out the fascist Trump-Pence regime.” Counter-protesters showed up in greater numbers.
“Supposed Antifa protests were condemned as a complete flop by America’s alt-right [Saturday] amid claims demonstrators were outnumbered by Donald Trump supporters,” said the UKs Express.
Refuse Fascism – founded by Revolutionary Communist Party Chairman Bob Avakian – bought a full-page ad in the New York Times to gain exposure for the rally, and despite much free press coverage by the national media during the days before the event, only trace numbers bothered showing up.
Antifa political activists did not even draw thousands – with the exception of Los Angeles, where approximately 2,000 took to the streets – as most cities were lucky to register crowds in the hundreds.
Local news reports announced that just about 200 Antifa demonstrators turned out for the San Francisco and Philadelphia rallies, and numbers were even more dismal in Seattle, an Antifa stronghold, drawing about 50 during the afternoon, while in Austin there were about 30 Antifa protestors, 50 police protecting them, and 200 Trump supporters or more out here chanting “USA.”
Instead of igniting a contagious anti-America movement, the embarrassing turnouts could be signifying an early end to the militant liberal group’s social justice campaign targeting Trump.
“And the group were expected to hijack the series of anti-government, left-wing demonstrations [Saturday] in what was being called an ‘antifa civil war,’” the Express’ Vickie Oliphant noted. “Far-right media outlets in the U.S. described the impending demonstrations as the ‘antifa apocalypse,’ issuing dire warnings that ‘antifa supersoldiers’ will terrorize the nation.”
Perhaps the angels are holding back the winds of strife.
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” Revelation 7:1.