Probably just as well the president is unlikely to visit Adams Park in Roslindale

I don't think that's a good analogy. Perhaps you could argue that "antifa" isn't actually anti-facist, but you have to actually make that point, it doesn't come for free.

The reason it's silly to compare modern Democrats to the Democrats that started the KKK is that their ideology is the opposite. You're right that "antifa" and US soldiers in WWII aren't necessarily "on the same side", but it's not analogous to Dems/KKK unless you can show that they are actually fighting for the opposite thing.

While many WWII soldiers would probably disagree with "antifa" tactics, I bet they would also be pretty pissed to see people marching with literal Nazi flags (which doesn't happen all of the time, but has been happening too often). I bet they'd want to punch them, too. Frankly, I bet most of them would be pretty upset to see that this is what they fought for.

The reference to political parties of the 1830s is way off the mark.

1. The Republican Party did not exist in 1830. So that comparison refers to a blank.

2. The Democratic Party of the Civil War era is completely different from the Democratic Party that arose from the 19th and 20th century urbanization and immigration.

3. The Republican Party which did evolve from the Whig Party is 180 degrees opposite it's namesake today. Donald Trump would have been set aside in a high chair with a dunce hat required to write on a chalk board a hundres times "I will act like an adult and not a petulant spoiled brat."

Before accuse people of being obtuse attempt to make sure that your facts are correct. One could say it is comical when a person attempts to sound smart and witty can't take the time to verify that there historical references are correct.

Antifa is not an organization; it is a belief. Antifa is a belief that fascism is bad. If Ike was anti-fascist then he would qualify as following antifa belief

Antifa is not an organization; never has been. Therefore it would be impossible for Ike to have been a member since there was not organization for him to be a member of.

To claim that Ike could not support antifa because it is not an organization is like saying an apple doesn't swim because it is not a fish. Completely unrelated. To say that Ike could not support anti-fascist beliefs is odd since he helped lead a war against fascists.

There are real people who say they are Antifa or support that group. I'm betting most people who hate fascism would not identify themselves with Anfifa or support the group (not some of the things you might see online anyway).

Calling JFK and RFK far left and now bifurcating the term into the far left of the 1960s and the far left of the 2020s is confusing if not bordering on misleading.

Far left of the 60s were people who questioned and challenged the assumption that Capitalism and American consumerist society were necessarily ideal. While some folks on the far left still foolishly looked to an ideal state of Marxian Communism, most of the left advocated (knowingly or not) an ideal society closer to early Christianity than the modern Totalitarian explication of the concept of Communism.

The far left of the 60s nevertheless challenged the assumption that the best kind of society is one where everyone is pitted against each other in a dog eat dog world of constant competition, where cooperation is secondary value but where competition, all all levels from individual to society as a whole, is treated as the best political-economic philosophy.

Far left and left of the 60s in the US included a presumed openness in society. Far right and right of the 60s presumed that society should be closed to only a set number, rejecting any who are different.

Today is mostly the same. Left means openness, big tent; right means closed, exclusive.

The nation as a whole has shifted to the more limited, restrictive philosophy over the past 60 years. That I believe reflects the changing of the US from the only super power to having to match wits with the Soviet Union. Today of course the US now has to match wits with a new super power, Communist China, which figured out how to maintain a totalitarian government while becoming an economic powerhouse.

That shift was encouraged and promoted by the anxiety and paranoia of Nixon, the validation of Great Greed and Selfishness by the Reagan administration, the economic vacuum that has put the most money into the fewest hands and the purchase and perversion of the Evangelical Christian community as the foot soldiers of the extreme right. By extreme right I mean not just politicians but, for example, the literal descendants of the founders of the John Birch society, the two Koch brothers who promoted rightwing organizations. Add to that the development and ascendancy of extreme right wing academic societies such as The Federalist Society, Cato Institute, Hoover Institute, George Mason University and it cabal extreme right wing academics. A painful example being James Buchanan who provided the philosophy justification for Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror in Chile.

A way to sum this up: In American there is far more blood and a present far greater threat to the positive American values of community, family, as nation of "the many," and the spirit of what the Founders started in the 18th century.

Another way of saying this is that while the nation is many ways has shifted leftward, that is toward "the many" in e pluribus unum, the people who are scared of the idea of the many, of diversity and difference, are fighting tooth and nail to create just the unum. In the case of today's far right, but much of the less extreme right, that includes white, male dominated, some kind of conservative Christian, with some allowance for Jews, and an economic stratification which begrudgingly allows for the presence of some women and non-whites in positions of power.