Comment by seabird

You're ignoring a prominent and consistent streak of politically motivated violence because in this case you dislike the other group more. You're diminishing the reality that Antifa is a worldwide movement/ideology with consistent violent tendencies.

The president did condemn open white supremacy, and did associate them with the violence, albeit not as strongly as it seems you would prefer, and not as the sole instigators (which they weren't).

Modern Antifa is also a (generally) violent group rooted in extreme socialist/communist politics, with the general overreaching idea of the violent overthrow of anybody they consider to be a "fascist." They have "actually acted violently," and have done so with much greater frequency and magnitude than any far-right group has in the last twelve months.

This isn't a false equivalency as much as it is an inconvenient one for leftist/progressive politics.