Please don't confuse or associate the American Antifa movement with the European Antifa that started in the late 30s. They are the same in name only. From Wikipedia:
At the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Antifa "certainly used clubs and dyed liquids against the white supremacists." Journalist Adele Stan interviewed an Antifa protester at the rally who said that the sticks carried by Antifa protesters are a justifiable countermeasure to the fact that "the right has a goon squad." Some Antifa participants at the Charlottesville rally chanted that counter-protesters should "punch a Nazi in the mouth."Quote:
Antifa is a left to far-left, anarchist political movement of autonomous, self-described anti-fascist groups in the United States.
According to The Economist, the "word Antifa has its roots in Anti-Fascist Action, a name taken up by European political movements in the 1930s" and which was revived in the 1990s, particularly in Germany. Peter Beinart writes that "In the late ’80s, left-wing punk fans in the United States began following suit, though they initially called their groups Anti-Racist Action, on the theory that Americans would be more familiar with fighting racism than fascism." They are known for militant protest tactics, including property damage and, sometimes, physical violence, although a vast majority of their activities are nonviolent.
...commonly associated with a willingness to engage in a show of force. Antifa groups have most notably protested the 2016 election of Donald Trump. During the inauguration celebrations mask-wearing black bloc protesters "rage[d] across the area just outside" of the security perimeter, "smashing windows and burning cars."
... Antifa activists "combat white supremacism not by trying to change government policy but through direct action. They try to publicly identify white supremacists and get them fired from their jobs and evicted from their apartments," in addition to "disrupt(ing) white-supremacist rallies, including by force."
...Antifa activists participate in violent actions because "they believe that elites are controlling the government and the media.
source: Wikipedia
This is what Trump was referring to when he condemned "the hatred and violence on both sides." The USA version of Antifa is not an honorable group although some of them may have honorable intentions. They are a violent hate filled radical liberal anarchist group whose goal is to use treats of force and intimidation to silence anyone who they disagree with. This is not acceptable in the USA.
I don't "care for them" at all. I oppose everything they stand for. But there are some things I stand for that others oppose, and I don't want the government deciding what I can say and what I can't. Maybe someday they will decide that my pro-life position is hate speech toward women, or my support for lower taxes is hate speech toward the poor. The reason our founders made free speech the FIRST Amendment is because it is the one right that protects all our other rights. When you allow the government to silence speech that you don't like, they can silence speech they don't like. The first right fascist dictators take away is free speech. They take control of the press, the media, outlaw demonstrations and arrest those who oppose them, because when you control speech, you control everything.
That will not happen here. So we allow the KKK to chant "white power" just as we allow the liberal left to burn the flag and we allow Black Lives Matter to chant, "what do we want? Dead Cops! When do we want them? Now!" because if we silence the most offensive voices on the fringe of society then the more moderate voices become the ones on the fringe and we can silence those too. The PC movement occurring on our college campuses where you can't say anything that might make anyone uncomfortable with their "safe spaces" and "trigger word warnings" sets a dangerous precedent. How can you affect positive social change when you refuse to even hear what the opposition has to say? Ignorance is not bliss.