Headlines (and timelines) can make it seem like a rising tide of white supremacists, Nazis, and trolls is one "free speech rally" away from swamping us all. To be sure, hate in America is more visible than it's been in decades, helped along by the internet-the factory where bots, propaganda, and real people slosh around together in an agita-inducing flurry. But all that makes it easy to overestimate how many far-right extremists there are. We pulled together some numbers and facts to put the hate-mongering into context.
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