I don’t know if this is universal, but all the people I know who consider themselves antifa in Connecticut also actually consider themselves far-left (anarchists or some variety of communists, mostly), myself included. I’d love it if liberals would take part, but I don’t know any self-described Democrats or moderates who do.

It is often far left. Not because opposition to Nazis is but because willingness to spill nazi blood without government permission is

That said, all are welcome to fight Nazis. They’d take fucking George Bush if he wanted to get one of Richard Spencer’s teeth embedded in his fist

To be fair, the name Antifa is used pretty much exclusively by radical anti-authoritarian left groups.

The libs don't organise into black blocs to beat up fascists, they write to their congressman to ask for stricter hate speech laws.

The tankies, despite creating the first group to call itself AFA, don't participate in them much in the modern day because they try to subordinate such things to their party, which goes against the decentralized ethos of what most people call Antifa.

This leaves anarchists, libcoms, and a small smattering of demsocs and Trots. Thus it is completely fair to refer to "Antifa" as a left-wing phenomenon.

Yeah, Newsweek is horseshoe theory bullshit incarnate.

They even have a thing at the bottom of most political articles all but declaring that centrism is the ultimate fairness! 🤦