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Firstly, I am not an American so while the Charlottesville clashes might be the most proximate case of ’alt-right’ ’protest’/parading/provoking it is (sadly) far from unique. Reactionary, nationalistic, and populistic sentiment seems to be coming to the fore pretty much everywhere in the Western sphere.

Secondly, I tend to agree that the term ’Nazis’ is... inaccurate. Deserved, earned, maybe even desired by the paraders themselves but fundamentally inaccurate. They synthesise their ideology down to a kernel of intolerance and racism and reach the conclusion that they are the natural successor in an unbroken line of descent from the ’cool’ Nazis, and thus they claim and are accorded the mantle. However national socialist ideology was far more complex, and the Nazi party's structure far more evolved, than these little folks have.