Why is there a false equivalence in Charlottesville?

[Associate Justice PiT]

An alt right individual killed someone. However, antifa is also despicable. A varying degree of evil among two group doesn't change the fact that both are still evil.

It seems the New Fuhrer did a good job brain washing you ("there is blame on both sides").

The white nationalist at the rally represented pure wickedness, and there were many of them. Those who protested with them, that may have not had such "extreme" views, could easily hear their words of hatred and see their symbols/clothing of evil.
They could easily have exited and decided not to be associated with them, if they wanted.
So in the end, those who chose to stay representing the "right," in my eyes, are ALL Nazi thugs.

On the other hand, those who were there to counter-protest (the "left"), were probably majority "mainstream" individuals. People who are tolerant of others, and who represent just wanting a normal peaceful life (more about love, not hate). Many of them were just your standard mom/dad, or students, or teachers, etc. (And I might add, represented various races/color.)
You can not view this "left" side as ALL "Antifa." I would be willing to bet that a majority of them, don't even know what the f, Anitifa even means.
"Non-Antifa," normal people, can also rise up in great numbers when evil is easily detected, and have no fear of joining to protest against the demonic. In fact in a great democratic society such as ours (the USA), I believe it is our duty to do so.

Conclusion: So your attempt (and trump's) to try to label the anti-hate side as "Antifa" or "Alt-left" is misguided and a failure.
On the other hand, we can easily ascertain that the people who were in Charlottesville representing the "right," where ALL bigoted, Nazi-loving, KKK, scum of the Earth.

     Distilling this post down, the decisive factor for me in rejecting the equivalence is that many of the counter-protestors were honest, non-violent people who were simply concerned about racism. If it were purely Antifa vs. KKK, I would say that the equivalence is justified. Instead it was "lots of non-terrible people and some Antifa" vs. KKK.