Hello and

this is the show for instance kitchen.

and this is the show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant and returning guest today is an independent journalist and the author of

Unmassed Inside Antifah's radical plan to destroy democracy, nice neutral title there.

Andy now welcome back to Trigonometry.

I'm very happy to be here again.

We're very happy to have you back Andy.

You've been doing some really important work.

We had you on the show last time shortly after you were

assaulted and we talked by Antifa and we talked about that a lot. But since then in

April and May of 2020 we saw the BLM protests and Antifa related to that really taking

over several city centers in America and you did some great work on that so for

anyone who doesn't know what Antifa is who has never heard of this

issue before who maybe frankly hasn't ever seen any coverage because some of the

stuff you've been posting on social media from footage from those scenes never made it to mainstream television or

on news certainly in this country so just give everybody a big picture

overview what is Antifa what has been happening in America for the last year?

Antifa is a violent extremist movement of anarchists and communists

with the explicit stated goal of destroying liberal democracies. So they've seen

significant rise particularly since the election of Donald Trump in late

2016 and instead of just being a radical left-far less movement on the

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