Ku Klux Klan, March 2, 1948; White Nationalists August 12, 2017 (Credit: AP/Steve Helber) It is impossible to have an honest discussion about the violence in Charlottesville without confronting the violence inherent in American far-right ideology. I’m not talking about mainstream conservatism, which like mainstream liberalism is rooted in abhorrence for that kind of social disruption.