It wasn’t “hundreds of torch-toting members”. it was about 100. This entire thing was about a tiny minority of crazy folks, along with a good number of normal concerned citizens who were upset about tearing down civil war monuments that were tricked by this small number of radicals.
And, of course, the hundreds of terrorists known as Anti-Fa who showed up to cause a riot.
It was an elaborately staged play to make it impossible to protect our history without being tagged as a white supremacist.