To clarify, what I'm saying is there were not good people on both sides in Charlottesville, there were good people on one side only. However, in the broader political sphere, there are good people on both the right and the left, and it is far more imperative that they call out the extremists in their own midst first before attacking those on the other side. The right in this country includes neo-Nazis. It does not get worse than that, and nothing on the left comes close. Those Republicans willing to condemn this problem first - and both Sullivan and Murkowski did so in very clear terms, as did many of their colleagues - earned my admiration. Remove the mote in your own eye. 

Republicans own the white nationalists whether they want to or not. Back in the early sixties William F. Buckley and his allies drove the lunatic fringe out of the conservative movement. Honorable Republicans need to repeat his efforts if they want to save their party.