Unfortunately, this editorial is based on speculation as to motives and objectives.  Objective reality is formed by actions.  If one were to total the actions (other than speaking out) taken by those groups the RG calls alt-right, we would find little to be excited about one way or another.  Yes, the car killing in Charlottesville was awful.  But taking in the big picture,  have these groups done much other than shoot their mouths off.  Now the leftist vigilantes are engaged in action, i.e. action to physically assault those who say things they don't like or symbols they object to.  I think throughout history, perpetrators ALWAYS see themselves as morally superior to their victims.  Many of you still applaud the dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities largely populated by non-combatants, the saturation bombing of German cites filled with the same, the drone killings of innocent Arabs.  History repeats.  The left is the new KKK.