It’s been two years since the alt-right descended en masse on Charlottesville, Virginia. That weekend in August 2017 was one of violence and bloodshed, a reprehensible display of hate and bigotry that shocked the nation.

If only it had been just a display. Two years later, it’s clear that Charlottesville was so much more. It was a rallying cry, a call to action, to defend the “blood and soil” of white nationalism — a call that claimed the life of Heather Heyer, an activist protesting racism who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of left-wing protesters, backed up, and sped away. Dozens of others were injured in street brawls, and two police officers died in a helicopter crash.