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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Have Antifa and State Opposition Become a New Confederacy?

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A new movement of resistance is growing across the United States, with efforts to block deportations and resist federal law enforcement. In light of this, commentator and historian Victor Davis Hanson is raising an important question of whether the new movement represents a type of new confederacy.

We’ll discuss this topic and others, in this episode of “Crossroads.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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Are we seeing the rise of a new confederacy within the United States?

0:04.0

And is this in the form of Antifa and state opposition with the efforts to block deportations

0:09.0

and to push back against federal law enforcement?

0:12.0

I'll be deep diving into this topic today.

0:15.0

On a related point, many officers are doing their jobs, but they're just facing lawlessness in their cities.

0:20.0

And it's also now being

0:21.1

revealed that in some instances, officers have been given stand-down orders to not enforce the law

0:28.6

on key issues. I'll be talking about these topics a lot more today. I'm the Epic Times

0:33.8

senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

0:44.0

Welcome to Crossroads. A new movement of resistance is growing all across America. There are efforts

0:50.5

to block deportations, to push back against federal law enforcement.

0:55.0

And in light of this, commentator and historian Victor Davis Hansen, he's raising an important question.

1:01.0

Do these new movements represent a new confederacy?

1:06.0

Has the Confederacy returned to the United States?

1:09.0

This is what he says on his website.

1:11.4

He says, left-wing protesters are swarming ice headquarters important to violently oppose all

1:16.8

deportations, even those of known criminals and those who have already exhausted efforts to

1:22.9

remain here illegally.

1:24.4

Why?

1:25.5

He says the Democratic Party, a parrot apparent knows that the public wants both secure

1:29.2

borders and deportations of illegal aliens. Indeed, in part, it lost an election by its open

1:35.9

border advocacy, suggesting that actually border issues was one of the key voting points, right?

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