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I'll come at it from another direction. The executive order is nonsense from a legal perspective for any number of reasons, but that's assuming the Trump administration intends to follow the rule of law. I hope it's pretty obvious by now that we can't make that assumption.
Lets say you are an ideological enemy of Trump that the administration want's to railroad. They use this executive order to prompt the FBI to start digging. The FBI isn't going to push back and say that antifa isn't an organization, and they will never have to prove such a thing in court. They still have to find something to charge you with though, but you are a model citizen with no criminal record, and you have never said anything online that could possibly be twisted to sound like a threat. So, you are safe, except...
Since you have been implicated as a domestic terrorist, the intelligence agencies get roped in. Independent of the FBI, these agencies are the top experts in the entire world at finding your secrets and even at fabricating pretty much any document or other piece of evidence they want. As a terrorist (yeah, they drop the "implicated" part pretty quickly) you are a risk to national security. Suddenly the FBI is getting tips that lead them to whatever they need to put you away for whatever crime is most useful.
This is exactly how fascist governments operate.