Why CNN’s Normalizing Of A White Nationalist Matters

1. Couldn’t the same be said about Alex Jones or any of the ugly conspiracy theorists that he and the other media pundit over at CNN were crusading to de-platform? CNN has taken the same kinds of demagogue, and put him on their news network—a network that doesn’t even pretend to be an open platform for millions of users, but one that chooses only a handful of guests every day to feature.
2. In its report on the conference, NPR—which made sure to note what was implicit in most coverage: the Republican victory had given this once-fringe movement a “jolt”— noted that maybe 300 people, “split nearly evenly between conference attendees and protesters of the conference outside” had been on hand for the event.
3. To put this in perspective, there was—by far—more coverage of this idiotic get-together than there has ever been given to the March for Life, which pulls hundreds of thousands of people every year, or even this week's progressive Netroots Nation, which, inconveniently, featured elected both elected Democrats and anti-Semites—sometimes simultaneously.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/17/why-cnns-normalizing-of-white-nationalists-matters/