No, not really. The people who are identified as "antifa" are kind of old school, like when the government paid certain citizens to kill a bunch of fascists and nazis. And really, as much as the Left practices broad tolerance, how does one reconcile that with respect to the intolerant? Are bigots supposed to be tolerated?
"Antifa" observes Oath Keepers, III%ers, "Patriot Prayer", various "Militias" and other such types, guns slung over their fatigue-draped shoulders, using public spaces to declare and promote their vile ideologies and feel that those idiots should not be allowed to just prance around like they own the place. They need to know that there are people who do not passively countenance their displays but object strongly.
This is kind of a conundrum. If those strutting LARPers are simply starved of attention, their activities might just peter out – or they might draw in new recruits. But if they are confronted by "antifa", well, the same possibilities exist. Perhaps the answer is to treat large groups who march in public with weaponry as de facto terrorists and have them arrested: you can carry a gun, or you can have a big gathering in the square, but you cannot do both at the same time.
Which, of course, would drive them "underground", where we would have a harder time keeping an eye on them. No, this is a pretty difficult problem. "Antifa" is a symptom of another issue that needs to be addressed (which is why it tends to coincide and be conflated with BLM). Repudiating them accomplishes nothing. Why they "exist" is what we need to focus on.
