The planned white nationalist rally outside the White House has flopped as few dozen racists have been dwarfed by thousands of anti-racism counterprotesters in Washington DC.

Video:

DC: a very very small alt-right crows moves to their protected spot near the old executive office building and Renwick building pic.twitter.com/ojLH2lqQcH

— Richard Fausset (@RichardFausset) August 12, 2018

Here is the entire Unite The Right rally crowd:

This is the “Unite the Right”’rally crowd. All of them. pic.twitter.com/flgi9jqZQ2

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) August 12, 2018

The small alt-right crowd had planned to make a big display of coming into the Metro station to take the train, but most of them had to stop at the machines and buy Metro before they could use the public transportation system.

The rally turnout is bad news for Trump

The white supremacists and racists of the country are a key part of Trump’s constituency. The president has refused to condemn the racism of the far right while doing everything that he can to inflame racial division in the United States. Trump needs to divide America because his presidency is governing to a faction, not the entire country.

The racists say that they were too scared to come out for the rally:

#UniteTheRight members say people were too afraid to come out today for the rally. #ShutItDownDC pic.twitter.com/1mOh0WVD7Q

— WUSA9 (@wusa9) August 12, 2018

What frightened them was thousands of people coming together to send the message that their bigotry and hate will not be tolerated:

Here’s some of the counter protest following them pic.twitter.com/ztQrAIqBH2

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) August 12, 2018

A Republican Party and a president who are relying on division and hate to win were sent a strong message that their tactics are destined to fail.

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