It's certainly true that there were evil people on the "right" at Charlottesville, but those evil people wanted to gather and give speeches and see if they could get some publicity. In short, they wanted to speak their evil. The communists came with the express intent of initiating violence against the people they call fascist.
The problem with this is that while there were actual fascists and neo-Nazis in the "right-wing" group, the communists recognize no "center". You're either with them and their buddies the Black Lives Matter racists and the "La Raza" racists or you're a Nazi. According to them, we're all Nazis, we all deserve to be punched, we all deserve to be beaten up. Oppose socialized medicine? Nazi! Oppose affirmative action? Nazi! Oppose welfare? Nazi! Defend free speech, even that with which you disagree? Nazi! Oppose unlimited immigration? Nazi! Nazi!! Nazi!!! One thing I have to hand it to the communists, they are not overcome by Hamlet-like indecision over nuance.
They initiate violence against Ann Coulter because she opposes unlimited immigration. They initiate violence against Heather MacDonald because she defends police and points out the Ferguson Effect and the resulting large rise in crime in inner cities. They initiate violence against Jordan Peterson because he says there are only two sexes and that universities are corrupt cesspools of leftist indoctrination. They initiate violence against James Damore because he suggests men and women on average have difference interests and some of that difference might be explainable by biology. They initiate violence against Charles Murray because he publishes for the popular press data that was known to psychologists for a century--that on average IQ scores vary among sub-populations, and that this fact rather than racism might explain disparate impacts. They initiate violence against anyone who wants to defend the character, culture, and heritage of the United States, smearing (ahistorically) Founding Fathers like Washington and Jefferson, or other honorable Americans like Robert E Lee or Stonewall Jackson or JEB Stuart.
You know who they are not initiating violence against? Yaron Brook. Onkar Ghate. Elan Journo. Harry Binswanger. Anyone associated with the Ayn Rand Institute. And you know why they don't protest Brook when he speaks on campus? Because he says absolutely nothing controversial with respect to the culture wars. He's right there smack dab in the middle of what Tom Woods calls the "three-by-five card of allowable opinion" when it comes to any issue important to the Cultural Marxists. Jordan Peterson is making $60,000 per MONTH on Patreon from people just donating a few bucks here or there because they like his defense of Western Civilization. That's $720,000 per year, more than 50% more than Brook extracts from ARI and its Koch Brothers donors. Just for standing up for Western Civilization. There's apparently a market for that. Ayn Rand stood up for The West. Why won't Yaron Brook?
Now the left is "de-platforming" anyone who they disagree with. Lauren Southern and a bunch of others got kicked off of Patreon. Milo got kicked (illegally) off of Twitter, as have a number of other right-wing personalities. Antifa plans violence on Twitter and nary a word is said. Youtube is demonetizing all right-wing videos. The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer (an odious bunch if I've ever seen any) just got their web hosting revoked. Guys, Al Qaeda and ISIS have web sites and no one blinks an eye at them. Peterson better not buy a new house, because that $60K/month is extremely precarious. Patreon is almost certainly going to kick him off for some phony charge.
The neo-Nazis are a crude bunch but they are no threat to civilization today. They are mostly stupid, uneducated, and extremely small in numbers. The white nationalist leadership ranges from deranged (David Duke and Richard Spencer) to extremely mild and as non-threatening as your grandpa, like Jared Taylor.
But the communists are invigorated. They are shutting down websites, breaking up speeches, beating people over the head who disagree with them, taking over whole cities, with the permission of the police and the government. They've taken over almost all universities to the point of ridiculosity (look up "The Chalkening"). And they are coming for all of us. They are coming for libertarians. They are coming for real Objectivists. They are coming for conservatives. They are coming for traditional religious people. They are coming for history buffs. They are coming for straight white males (especially straight white married males who as heads of families earn proportionally more money to support their families). They are coming for anyone who disagrees with them and their brand of violent Cultural Marxism.
The problem is that the people who aren't Cultural Marxists, who don't believe there are 57 genders, who don't believe Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, who don't believe American history should be torn down and replaced with the New Soviet Man, who don't believe in unlimited immigration, who don't want to press 1 for English, who don't believe that all white males have "privilege" that needs to be "checked," that intersectional feminism is anything other than gobbledygook, or that "reparations" need to be paid to blacks, Hispanics, or any other minority group, and who DO believe that people should be treated as individuals rather than as members of groups--all those people--want someone to stand up for them. And they will go down the list of potential leaders in descending order of respectability until they find someone who will call out these leftists for their nonsense and evil. There were 17 candidates running for the Republican nomination, and not one of the respectable candidates would really stand up to the political correctness and other cultural Marxism that is destroying the Republic. (I liked Ted Cruz but he was first off the block to virtue signal to the Left about the murder in Charlottesville. Little Marco is virtue signaling to the Left every day.) So Americans went down the list of candidates, rejected each one--governors, senators, business leaders--who was a surrender monkey to the Left, until they found one who wasn't a surrender monkey, Donald Trump. They found someone who wasn't afraid of being called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Islamophobe. Those are the Left's magic words: like Harry Potter they merely have to whisper "racist" as an incantation and every Republican folds. Republicans nominated Trump because he wasn't going to fold to the Left or the Media when they whispered their incantations. And he won the election, miraculously, given how everyone in both the Republican Establishment, the Democrat/Media Establishment, and the Deep State was against him.
And Trump is taking a LOT of heat. He took a lot of heat today for correctly pointing out that the Left was equally culpable in the violence at Charlottesville. The Left will do anything to remove Trump. They will probably try to kill him. They will certainly try to impeach him. Or eventually (hopefully) he will govern for eight years and retire to Florida.
When Trump is gone, the problem will still remain. The people vilified by the Left (most average citizens in America, and all of us reading this) will again look for someone to defend them from the depredations of the communists. They will again go through the list of possibilities in descending order of respectability. The problem this time is that given the craven and gutless nature of Republicans, there probably won't be anyone who wants to defend them, who WON'T immediately crumble at the mention of "racist". Who then will the libertarians, conservatives, and traditionalists--the people targeted for violence or death by the Left and their friends in the media--turn to? I tell you they will turn to the least disrespectable person who wants to defend them from the communists and Cultural Marxists, and that means if someone in the GOP doesn't grow a pair, we're in serious trouble. Because at some point, the least disrespectable person will be that idiot Richard Spencer. God help us that it doesn't come to that, but that is what I fear will end up happening. Nazism and White Nationalism aren't threats to American liberties TODAY, as the Left thinks. But unless some other Republican learns to stand up to the Left (and it clearly isn't Cruz or Rubio, at least today), I fear the White Nationalists will become a threat down the road. Multicultural societies invariably descend into identity politics uber alles. That's where the US is headed unless someone after Trump stands up and declares that multiculturalism is evil because Western Civilization and the liberties it gave birth to are GOOD and JUSTIFIED and worth fighting for. I am not optimistic.