Many on the Right propagating conspiracy theories about “antifa” have also been stockpiling weapons while warning about FEMA death camps, martial law and erosions of Constitutional liberty. But as we saw during earlier Black Lives Matter protests and are seeing again now, many such individuals side with militarized police who are crushing protests. Using contorted conspiracist logic, it is the police and now the military who are preventing tyranny, and their victims who are actually the instigators of martial law.

Cip Gibbons, “Donald Trump’s ‘Antifa’ Hysteria is Absurd, but it’s Also Very Dangerous”