Published: August 10, 2018
The rally’s goal to reunite the extreme ‘alt-right’ with the radical ‘alt-light’ has failed as they grow further apart
This weekend the extreme right, or “alt-right”, will descend on Washington DC to try and regain the media spotlight in a rerun of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. Like most sequels, Unite the Right 2 will be a weak copy of the original. Even the organizer, Jason Kessler, seems to acknowledge this. He applied for a permit for a rally of about 400 people, while estimates of the turnout at the Charlottesville rally in 2017 range from between 500 and 1,500 far right protesters.
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