How do you REALLY KNOW, who anyone is, these days ... It turned out that the leadership of the "Proud Boys" and the 3%ers, were Federal "Informants".
But unlike those groups, organized around their latent or open homosexuality, and their affinity for authoritarian personality types - "ANTIFA" isn't a single group, so much as it is - an IDEA. There are no Grand Lodges of "ANTIFA", handing out charters and membership badges. Antifascists come from a variety of different political ideologies and backgrounds. What they share is an opposition to what they (rightly) see as the rise of fascism here in America.
Currently that takes the form of "inverted totalitarianism" - but as we have since 2019, that's rapidly veering towards Technocratic Totalitarianism - which, sadly, many groups calling themselves "ANTIFA" have shown a willingness to support, to the point of direct, often violent, complicity. This probably stems from their failures to grasp the nature and trajectory of the Technocratic Totalitarian takeover - but also, likely from an oppositional reaction against the positions frequently taken by their perceived adversaries, in the larger American cultural warfare battle space. People on the right were perceived (during Biden's unlawful mandates) to have resisted the lockdowns, the forced masking and the nonconsensual human medical experimentation, using Gene Therapy injections - none of which had any valid scientific/public health basis, as they were all demonstrating manifestly negative health and welfare outcomes (except for the imposition of Technocratic Totalitarianism). In reality, these concerns were also shared by on the actual political left, unbeknownst to those claiming to be "ANTIFA".
I wasn't really a fan of Charlie Kirk... He was a right-winger and a bigot - being bankrolled by Zionist Billionaires... But to his credit, he was willing to discuss and debate, and when he came across the right folks, he lost the argument. And as a result, he wound up turning on the question of (Judeo-Nazism/)Zionism - and that appears to be part of the reason for his apparently public killing. But let's not let our disagreement with his politics and racism lead us increasing the climate of political violence in America.
In Europe there was a CIA/NATO - OPERATION GLADIO, which led Italy particularly, to endure the "Years of Lead" - as part of a strategy of tensions. I'm concerned that this kind of OPERATION has been reimported, to be run, here in America.