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The "alt-right" protesters were estimated to number 500 total.
This may be high. I've talked to people who say they never saw more than about 150 in any one place.
Doesn't sound like they have the numbers to take over the country any time soon.
Both sides initiated violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
If five hundred is the best they can do, they're not much of a threat. Bear in mind this was many different groups, not all of them supremacist necessarily, and certainly far from united and organized... some of them can barely tolerate each other under normal circumstances.
This may be high. I've talked to people who say they never saw more than about 150 in any one place.
Doesn't sound like they have the numbers to take over the country any time soon.
Both sides initiated violence.
Beginning in the morning, ahead of the rally's official noon start time,[SUP][69][/SUP] "protesters and counterprotesters faced off, kicking, punching, hurling water bottles at and deploying chemical sprays against one another."[SUP][70][/SUP][SUP][71][/SUP] An estimated 500 protesters and more than a thousand counterprotesters were on the site.[SUP][70][/SUP] At least 19 people were injured in "street brawls" and other violence at the rally.[SUP][3][/SUP]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
If five hundred is the best they can do, they're not much of a threat. Bear in mind this was many different groups, not all of them supremacist necessarily, and certainly far from united and organized... some of them can barely tolerate each other under normal circumstances.