(CNN) — President Donald Trump has justified his ramped up threats against the American political left by citing its supposed unusually violent nature.

He has launched an increasingly broad crusade against speech he doesn’t like, culminating in a successful pressure campaign to get Jimmy Kimmel off the air . And Trump on Thursday signaled he would label Antifa, a loose collection of far-left activists, a “major terrorist organization” – which would be an unprecedented step against a domestic entity.

In other words, the crackdown that Trump previewed mere hours after Charlie Kirk was killed last week is looking increasingly real.

Which means it’s a good time to take a closer look at what he claims is the entire basis for this effort.

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