Trump signs an executive order that is so much more dangerous than it looks.

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Trump just signed an executive order that is getting virtually no media coverage,

which I suppose makes sense, considering he's sending troops into Portland,

he's prosecuting former FBI director James Comey, firing U.S. attorneys who don't agree to engage in vindictive prosecutions.

He's sicking his FCC on comedians who hurt his feelings.

But the executive order designates Antifa as a terror organization, a domestic terrorist organization.

And at first blush, that doesn't really seem effective because Antifa isn't like a real thing. There's no

organization called Antifa. There's no membership, no meetings, no central structure, no leaders.

It's a concept and ideology. So like, great, Trump designates a group domestic terrorists that

don't actually exist, meaning it's not really worth the paper it's printed on. But that's actually the wrong way to think about this, because in fact, Trump wants this executive

order to focus not on a specific group, but rather an amorphous idea.

Why?

Because then he can bunch anybody he dislikes into this group.

It's expressly because Antifa isn't a real group that he can say

that someone he doesn't like is a part of Antifa. And if they say they don't have a membership in

Antifa, he'll say, correct, nobody has a membership, but you share their ideals, meaning you fall

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