“It’s not necessarily something that we can ignore as a possibility that this administration, they want to pursue, essentially just stretch the truth, to fit its policy objective, in this case going after left-wing or progressives through the lens of using counterterrorism tools,” Blazakis said.

“The president himself during a roundtable at the White House turned to his senior advisers whose job it is to designate these entities and instructed them to do it, on TV,” [Brzozowski] said. “So yeah I think they might do it. And people are not ready for it. People are not ready for it. If that goes through, I’m telling you, unbelievable.”

As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group,
experts see danger, NPR, 10-28-25

“Everything was still in place in February 1933. Children sledded down hills; shoppers purchased linens at white sales; doctors consulted patients; secretaries opened mail at trade union offices… But the frame of events tilted just a little bit every day after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, and soon things started to slide out of place with greater speed. Opposition newspapers were suspended and political opponents attacked or silenced. Seemingly far-away events that people read about in the papers one week, they suddenly saw happening down the street the next. The Weimar Republic was finished off in a sequence of events over just a week or two in March 1933.”

— Peter Fritzsche, Hitler’s First Hundred Days:
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich, pages 136-137