To look at the pitiful showing of Jason Kessler’s Unite the Right 2 outing last weekend, the casual observer might wonder if the racist “alt-right” was routed. But to mistake Kessler as a one-man bellwether for the strength of white supremacist ideas is to misapprehend — and underestimate — the movement to which he belongs.

“Episcopal Sodomy: Communist Homosexual Infiltrators” — that headline blared across the homepage of ChurchMilitant.com on July 31.

The California chapter of anti-LGBT hate group MassResistance was formed in May 2016 by longtime anti-immigrant and nativist activist Arthur Schaper. Now it’s added a white nationalist to its ranks.

Francis Cissna, the current director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is scheduled to appear at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on August 15 to speak at an event sponsored by the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).