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Anti-fascist demonstrators march in downtown Washington, near a rally attended by the far-right group the Proud Boys, in July, 2019.

“This Machine Kills Fascists,” read the sticker that folk musician Woody Guthrie first affixed to his guitar in 1943, inspiring generations of musicians to do the same. Given his beliefs and affiliations, Mr. Guthrie was almost certainly aware of a German organization known as Anti-Fascist Action, or Antifa for short, and would likely have been proud to consider himself an adherent, had it not ceased to exist 10 years before.

Does that mean someone like Mr. Guthrie would be arrested and charged as a terrorist, on the basis of that sticker and those sympathies, if he were alive in the United States today? Quite possibly.

On Wednesday, President Do

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