"We’re past the 'good people on both sides' angle with this crew."

You're not speaking for a Katie Herzog though, right?

Going back to our most recent historical example: fascists in both Germany& Italy began filling their ranks by tapping into "established" political grievance collectives that held regular "rallies" (drunken laments) post WWI. They brought sharp political acumen to the established bands, sang to the scapegoat rhetoric, and saved their most precious intentions for themselves. That is history.

"You know what they’d hate? If the public and media pointed that spotlight on their enemies—actual Portlanders who are fed up with them using our streets as a battleground. There are a number of local progressive groups—like Demand Utopia, Popular Mobilization, and Democratic Socialists of America—doing the hard work of organizing against Patriot Prayer’s toxic visits with nonviolent action and education. Let’s give them the megaphone."
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Wait, what? Maybe, uh, get the ball rolling by explaining who these groups are, what they're up to, what improvements they've made, ANYTHING to actually give them a megaphone? Name-dropping feels like a real lazy way to make it the reader's responsibility to track them down, when you could include just a few lines and a URL.

An article on framing the narrative fails to meet the definitions of “resist” and “fight”.

Just when I thought "Daddy" couldn't be more fucked. Howzabout a totenkopf for that sweet military cap of yours?

Organizing a group of people for a bank robbery is pretty obviously a crime, so how is actively organizing a group of people to commit violence not a crime?
And before the nazi apologists shout what about Antifa?!?! yeah, this would go for them too if that is the sole point of showing up. But here we have a group in Patriot Prayer (what an assinine name BTW) that organizes with the intent to show up armed and then to incite violence. How come the Portland PD and FBI haven't subpoenaed their emails and chats to build a RICO case against them?

@1: You can afford Katie journalistic nuance discretion in writing about about issues of the day and stop bringing up that tired old canard.

Free speech is exactly the grounds on which Katie Herzog would likely defend them.

@11

Sorry not sorry for ruining your day.

@13: Only the death of Doris Day could ruin my day, and thank God that hasn't happened.

@4 is full of shit and lies about "...Peaceful Protests" : They are anything but:

1) pp brought guns to protests in Portland with intent to hurt people, but were busted by PDX police before they could hurt someone.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/10/15/23710274/members-of-patriot-prayer-brought-loaded-firearms-to-roof-before-august-protest

https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/10/7d2bb561246607/what-we-know-about-patriot-pra.html

2) pb/pp groups are domestic right wing hate groups listed in the Southern Poverty Law Center registry of Hate Groups.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys

3) pp attracts unhinged people like the guy who killed two and injured a third on the MAX train

What would really ruin their day would be to ignore them.
But the Left is vested in terrifying it's credulous base, so that ain't going to happen.....

Oh, Suzanna, don't you cry for us...

If I think a woman with a penis is a man, am I a fascist?

Is this a communist site.sure sounds like it.that Antifa bunch you guys got are nothing but trashy thugs and believe me in the real world they would be handled according.why are they allowed to act as terrorists is beyond me.are you all that scared of them?get rid of that puss of a mayor and get a real man to take charge.pathetic

@15 I double checked, but Patriot Prayer is not listed as a hate group by the SPLC (although the Proud Boys are)

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state

These are the people Dadddy defends:. Gun battles, assaults, crossing state lines to flee criminal charges, about anything but "peaceful protest"

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/12/16/hammerskins-gather-remember-founder-order

You know, when two groups of angry trash people want to go fight in the street and assault people for the sole purpose of pretending they are heroes, you don't have to side with either of them, or lie to yourself by claiming only one group is committing violence and being arrested.

It's weird how only racist, misogynist garbage humans feel like they're having 1st amendment issues these days.

(you're not, the government isn't doing anything to keep you from outing yourself from the local dating pool)