It is a disservice to the Republican Party to refer to these guys as alt-right. We should call them what they are: neo-Nazis.
There were about 200 of them at this gathering. The leader said he doesn't know Trump and that Trump does not share his views. Yet CNN and others are linking Trump to them. I don't know if it's bias or just an attempt to get clicks from the hordes of dumbfounded donkeys screaming #notmypresident, but either way it's becoming borderline propoganda.
Finally, the parallels to Reverend Wright are apt. No, Wright wasn't as bad as neo-Nazis, but even more so than Trump with these guys, there was reason to believe that, by virtue of O's long-term association with the man, he (O) held his (Wright's) extreme views. To his credit, O eventually publicly and forcefully denounced Wright. To date, Trump's disavowal hasn't been as forceful. I would like to see him be a little more definitive, but I think that's a problem of messaging, not philosophy. At the end of the day, I think Trump needs to come to accept that, no matter how unfair the linkage between him and neo-Nazis, the press is making it, so he should put a firm stop to it. It wouldn't stop the crazies on the left from continuing to think that Trump has swastikas sewn into his underwear, but it would go a long way toward marginalizing them.
Or, Trump may have another plan to use the media's propaganda to his benefit. Lord knows he has defied conventional wisdom so far.