As disturbing as it is predictable, the media and Portland apologists have begun to make excuses for antifa brownshirts’ apparent rule over the Rose City. They now blame this masked group’s violent assault on journalist Andy Ngo upon the fact that he also writes political commentary.

In a piece that buries antifa’s quick-drying cement attack on Ngo, and the brain bleed with which they sent him to the hospital, the New York Times cites Brian Levin, the director at “the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism” at California State University in San Bernardino.