“They are a hate-filled tiny minority that gets an awful lot of press. 

It has been just recently they started to get awful lot of press. The same could be said about the KKK. Both of these small obscure group of radicals went unimportant until the far left attempted to associate these groups with Trump in hopes of discrediting him. The Russia thing got stale because they could find nothing and the media needed something, attempting to link Trump with the Nazis and KKK was a good second front. 
Even the liberals knows this is nonsense but it gives them a talking point and something to be offended over. I myself find it comical on how desperate the far left has become.