Well, there have always been racists, but they have become very emboldened by people from Trump to Le Pen. Ernst Zündel has died, but there is a new crop of outright and "proud" Nazis...
I'm thinking about the La Meute parade in Québec and a much larger group of counter-demonstrators. I'm wondering if the Black Bloc could have been handled differently; not in terms of their right to demonstrate, but to prevent them from having attracted all the media attention. Though remember that Jaggi Singh was doing NOTHING violent; evidently he was just dancing around and singing. I still remember his teddy-bear catapult when we were at the Counter-summit in 2000, running in to Judy Rebick and Jaggi...
I wrote to friends in Québec City after the marches, but haven't heard back yet.