How Trump cut antifas global leftist lifeline and struck a blow for democracy

Left-wing terrorism is a serious problem in the United States, though for political reasons it doesn’t receive anything like the attention right-wing violence gets.For example, when most people think of violence connected to abortion, they imagine attacks on abortion clinics — yet lately pro-abortion extremists have been firebombing crisis pregnancy centers across the country.These centers help women who want to have their babies or who are undecided about having an abortion: Women who are making a choice, just not the choice supposedly “pro-choice” abortion advocates find acceptable.So a group calling itself “Jane’s Revenge,” named for the “Jane Roe” of Roe v.Wade, has declared war on anyone who might choose life.The left-wing Guardian newspaper documented how “pro-choice militants” conducted terroristic attempts at intimidation from New York and North Carolina to Wisconsin, Texas and Washington state in recent years.“The methods have been extreme,” the report noted; “vandals have thrown molotov cocktails, committed arson, damaged property and made threats.”Jane’s Revenge issued a statement demanding “anti-choice establishments” shut down in 30 days or face further violence.That was in 2022 — yet the group continued operating, until its website went dark just days ago thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on terrorist infrastructure.Jane’s Revenge and various other radical organizations, including “antifa” groups, were part of a network relying on web services provided by Italy’s “Autistici/Inventati,” or A/I Collective.According to the State Department, the A/I Collective “builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world.”It provides technology “designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and ...