Anti-Fascism Is Not Simply a Moral Objection â It Is a Practical One Counterprotesters approach Trump supporters, including Proud Boys, during a rally on December 12, 2020, in Olympia, Washington. David Ryder/Getty Images Recent years have been scarred by an incipient fascism, plague and pestilence, and the violence that marked the end of the Trump administration. A renewed cycle of autonomous working-class organizing, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous struggles, and multitudinous anti-fascist resistance arose to counter this. In this interview, Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today and Why We Fight, discusses how the various histories and perspectives on anti-fascism can build a new type of moment that can answer the challenges we currently face.