The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”

The alt-right is understandably scary. Made up of small bands of white supremacist groups bound together by their vicious animosity toward marginalized communities, the alt-right is armed, militarized and angry because they can be. Though groups vary from khaki-wearing “intellectual” white nationalism to backwater Georgia militias defending themselves against an overreaching government, they’ve successfully bastardized two constitutional rights — that of free speech and that of bearing arms.