Trump supporters warned it's time for self-defense
'The left now feels violence against the right is both effective and morally justified'
Published: 15 hours ago

Are you ready to rumble?

That’s the question the Knights of Socialism at the University of Central Florida used to advertise their new Leftist Fight Club, which is open to the entire campus – except Republicans.

“Knights for Socialism has decided to host a series of self-defense clinics for anyone that wants to learn how to BASH THE FASH,” the group proclaimed on its Facebook page.

The group said it would have gloves and pads but “no bare-knuckle yet,” followed by a winking emoticon.................................................

Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the Capital Research Center and an expert on leftist politics who wrote “Subversion, Inc.,” believes the left is “panicked.”

“They are apoplectic and not thinking straight,” he said. “They cannot accept that Donald Trump is president and that Barack Obama, their lord and savior, has left office. They are lashing out at anything they associate with President Trump and Republicans. They’ve gone crazy.”

However, Vadum warned conservatives should take this supposed “fight club” very seriously. Indeed, he sees it as the latest chapter in a long history of violence coming from the American left.

“I think the term ‘fight club’ is euphemistic,” he said. “It would be more accurate to call this a left-wing militia that has announced its intentions to launch attacks against Trump supporters and conservatives. Democrats did the same thing after the Civil War by creating the Ku Klux Klan to lynch Republicans and freed blacks and scare them away from the polls. They fantasize that the federal government is out to get them, which makes no sense at all. All President Trump wants to do is restore law and order and some semblance of normalcy to government.”

The riots at Berkeley drew passionate reaction from many conservatives, some of whom heard of violent communist protesters known as “antifa” for the first time. Popular media personality Lauren Southern of Rebel Media suggested it is time for conservatives to start forming their own self-defense organizations.