Can't say I'm a fan. Wearing a mask and violently assaulting people is already illegal. Having bills to target organizations/people rather than just behaviors is a dangerous.
The entire tragedy of the modern left is that they've been subverted by trendy upper middle class people through their union's bureaucracy and forced into silence by the crazy of the campuses. They don't want to change anything, they're just juvenile/creepily-old delinquents.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIdLaIu0yK8
Hardly a working mans riot.
Here's the thing. Revolutionary speech was co-opted by the universities into post-modernist viewpoints in order to twist the status quo into anything and using it as a weapon of change. The problem is that it continued to expand beyond revolutionary speech and creep into behavior. To understand ANTIFA, you need to understand the academic system.
Their 'revolutionary ideas' are over 60 years old. The problem is you could make generalized statements of humanity back in the 1950s and 1960s, since science wasn't all that codified. 'Everything is racist, sexist and homophobic and you must point it all out' is an idea stemming from that time period. None of these are modern ideas and existed before we had rigid understandings of the mind, behavior, physiology. These ideas come before the time of DNA. They come before evolutionary and modern psychiatry. Philosophy and just basic observation was used to ascribe behavior.
This has radically changed, as we no longer view society as solely responsible for behavior, as our genes play an insanely important role in building our behaviors. Admitting this would cause large amounts of their enlargements to fall apart, as in, you can't really tell what is racist and what is a genetic component. Xenophobia is built into humanity because we used to live in small communities and outsiders were dangerous. Everyone has it to an extent. The problem is eliminating racism will not eliminate that.
The University system in the social sciences is built on 50 year old scholarship that has never updated or changed. Whenever you hear social criticism of something, you have to think what lens is it being viewed from. Is it viewed from the modern perspective of human behavior, scientific inquiry or is it from a philosophical, pre-DNA, pre-cognitive approach? Most of the time, unsurprisingly, its the latter. Because you have scholars and academics who have built careers on this bullshit. There are whole departments, journals, books, degrees dedicated to subjects whose relevance has largely been eliminated by scientific inquiry. The problem is that these degrees aren't pushed into philosophy, they're pushed as truth and they need to be maintain their relevance and profitability.
The academic treadmill relies on the humanities to supplement itself. You get a social science degree, can't pay for anything, go back for a masters. You don't get paid for a masters, so you pay more into the system. A masters makes it even harder, so you have to go back for a PhD. PhDs in the humanites are very very very very rarely funded. And a humanities PhD takes 10+ years. So you've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, invested countless time and effort. Of course you're going to spew the same shit professors 50 years ago spewed. You're going to invent this gibberish, pseudo-intellectual jargon that is functionally meaningless.
But where does ANTIFA come in? Most of the concepts that are preached by the Cultural Studies in academia are unobservable. For example, you cannot observe white privilege, because people can't see it (but you can!). You can't see microagressions because they're unconcious, but you can! They invent this unobservable, unprovable phenomenon that only they can see and understand and then expand it outward a thousand times to make these un-observable, unprovable things oppress minorities. You can't prove a feeling, which is what a microagression is. Its invisible, but someone feels it. White privleage, invisible but its affecting someone. So you get these ignorant white children who believe everyone is asleep and a secret Nazi and waking them up is pointless, so you have to have violent revolution.
Social Justice is more of a cult religion than anything academic or scientific. Its designed to indoctrinate through desperation, because it is simply not profitable to anyone but universities who constantly churn out white, unemployable graduates who chose an easy major, or wanted to change the world, and found out the lie that there was nothing that they could change. So they invent it. All their enemies are imaginary, invented in their minds. And this is what truly makes them dangerous. They've abandoned reason, inquiry and critical thought for their feelings. Because once you look at 'critical theory' with critical thinking, the whole enterprise crumbles as you realize there isn't any proof for any of it. Its just somebodies' opinion they're presenting as absolute truth.
Its a threat to creative freedom, academic freedom, and freedom in general. And the Democratic party has seen this and is only happy to make up enemies for them to get votes.
