DENVER — Normally, the whole point of a protest is to garner attention. But for antifa, shutting down the free press is crucial to its crusade that is supposedly against fascism.

“Hyatt cash is Nazi trash,” chanted a few dozen self-identified members of antifa outside of the downtown Denver Hyatt hotel hosting the Western Conservative Summit. The unusually staid summit, restricted to just 500 people due to the pandemic, stars conservative politicians and pundits such as former Sen. Rick Santorum, former acting Department of Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, pro-life activist Lila Rose, and Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop.