"Fighting Nazis is a good thing, but fighting Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you or your cause good.
By my lights this is simply an obvious fact.
The greatest Nazi-killer of the 20th century was Josef Stalin.
He also killed millions of his own people and terrorized, oppressed, enslaved or brutalized tens of millions more.Nazism was evil.
Soviet Communism was evil.
It’s fine to believe that Nazism was more evil than Communism.
That doesn’t make Communism good.
...The antifa crowd has a very similar agenda with regard to American liberalism.
These goons and thugs oppose free speech, celebrate violence, despise dissent and have little use for anything else in the American political tradition.
But many liberals, particularly in the media, are victims of the same kind of confusion that vexed so much of American liberalism in the 20th century.
Because antifa suddenly has the (alt-)right enemies, they must be the good guys.
They’re not.
And that’s why this debate is so toxically stupid.
Fine, antifa isn’t as bad as the KKK.
Who cares?
Since when is being less bad than the Klan a major moral accomplishment?
In these tribal times, the impulse to support anyone who shares your enemies is powerful.
But it’s a morally stunted reflex.
This is America.
You’re free to denounce totalitarians wherever you find them — even if they might hate the right people."
