The racist far right bets that journalists will continue treating them as fringe nuts, or even give them the legitimacy of the he-said-she-said treatment: 

How, even after the terror events of Charlottesville, did CNN manage to publish a story identifying Richard Spencer as a “white rights activist“? 

How, in the initial reports from that bone-chilling torch rally, was it never pointed out that “blood and soil” was an actual Hitler rallying cry?