I appreciate the sentiment, but Antifa and their ilk are neither Nazis nor Fascists

I just keep seeing this bandied about. Typically it is in relation to their suppression of free speech, their intolerance of any ideology but their own, etc. It is frequently stated, parroted and upvoted. While their methods may be similar and the symptoms manifest themselves in similar ways, they are Very different. I had two great uncles who fought for the US in the pacific and a great grandfather who was Leibstandarte, 1st Waffen SS on the eastern front primarily, though he also spend considerable time in France in 1940. Let me assure you all that regardless of what your feelings are on the SS, or even the Nazis in general, he was unapologetic and spoke freely of his experiences. They would have stacked bodies like cordwood long ago, and not of American patriots. These BLM thugs, Antifa, and their like would have been toast. The brown shirts battled Antifa in fierce street battles for years before Hitler’s ascendancy. The comparison is apt in certain ways but is fundamentally wrong. Just an argument for historical accuracy, downvote me at will.