Marco Rubio has apparently decided the biggest threat facing dozens of nations isn’t nuclear proliferation or supply chains — it’s Antifa. Per The Washington Post reporting, Rubio’s State Department sent invitations to senior officials in more than 60 countries for a July 16 sit-down on the supposed global rise of far-left terrorism.
The RSVP due date: this Friday. The notice period: short. The reaction from much of the invite list: bewilderment.
Behind the scenes, counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka has reportedly been floating the idea of slapping a foreign-terrorist label on Antifa specifically because it would grant access to heavier-duty surveillance powers against Americans allegedly connected to the movement.
One official even conceded, refreshingly on the record, that a chunk of the strategy is really about locking in these powers now — in case a “future Gavin Newsom administration” gets any ideas about turning them back around on conservatives someday. Nothing says confidence in your own political project like preemptively fearing your own weapon.
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