There are stupid people on both sides and don’t think focusing in on them is terribly helpful in general; if anything it just makes things worse.
Labeling them as “stupid people” makes it easy to dismiss them, until you realize they’ve achieved notoriety, power, and an ability to shift the discourse, and ultimately the direction of society.
It seems like anything to the right of socialism is being cast as alt-right in an attempt to lump it all together.
Woah, am I thinking of a different America or something?
There’s some hyperbole in there, but the general sentiment stands. Some of the stuff being labeled as alt-right is just regular old conservatism (and even classical liberalism) that isn’t far left enough for the hard left to consider within the bounds of reason.