Harmeet Dhillon sounded a blunt alarm about Antifa during a recent appearance on a nationally syndicated conservative program, warning that what many dismiss as street theatrics is instead a real and growing national-security threat. Her position in the Justice Department gives weight to those warnings, and conservatives who have watched city after city burn are right to stop treating these incidents as isolated protests.
Dhillon has long mixed courtroom grit with pointed public commentary, and she used her platform to call out the failure of institutions to confront left-wing political violence. As a veteran civil-rights lawyer who now serves in the Justice Department, she has repeatedly argued that federal authorities and local leaders have understimated the organized danger posed by violent antifascist actors.
This is not an academic dispute about labels; it is about public safety and the rule of law. The current administration and multiple senior officials have begun to acknowledge the scope of the problem and to discuss stronger federal responses, underscoring that this is now being treated as more than street-level disorder. Americans deserve a government that calls threats by their true names and acts decisively to stop them.
There are real victims behind the headlines, from journalists assaulted while covering protests to politically motivated attacks that have shaken the conservative movement. Dhillon has pointed to high-profile incidents that underline how activists and public figures are targeted, illustrating the human cost of ignoring organized political violence. The media’s selective outrage cannot be allowed to obscure the pattern of assaults and intimidation.
Big tech and mainstream outlets that normalize or minimize these threats share responsibility for the chaos by allowing organizing and propaganda to flourish on their platforms. Dhillon has repeatedly called out the tech giants and sympathetic newsrooms for shielding violent actors and censoring conservative voices while failing to curb real-world harm. Accountability must start with transparent enforcement and end with consequences for platforms that enable violence.
Conservative policymakers and responsible law-enforcement leaders should push for clear, consistent action that protects citizens and restores order without trampling civil liberties. If our institutions are serious about defending the American people, they will treat politically motivated violence as a national-security problem and use every lawful tool to shut it down. The choice is simple: preserve public safety and freedom, or allow disorder masquerading as protest to become the new normal.
