This year’s “Unite The Right” rally in D.C was a bust.

As reported in the Washington Post, “White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.”

“Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of last year’s violent and deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville,” wrote the Post, “wanted to hold an anniversary demonstration there, but the city wouldn’t let him. So he brought his show to Washington, where he hoped 400 supporters would join him for a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Fewer than 40 turned out.”

In an exclusive interview with MM, Kessler blamed the piddling attendance on Donald Trump.

“Would it have hurt Trump to put out a tweet or two promoting our event?” asked Kessler. “The man tweets about everything, why not about our great rally?”

After last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville, Donald Trump gave aid and comfort to the white nationalists by saying “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence, equating the actions of white nationalist groups and those protesting them.

It was suggested to Kessler that maybe hate has lost its appeal, its panache. The peddler of animus was having none of it. “Hate is as American as apple pie. It will never go out of style. No, I blame this all on Trump.”

Donald Trump has yet to chime in on this year’s flop of a hate rally.

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