Despite efforts by some of the new nationalists to banish the alt-righters and avowed white nationalists, this movement always ends up fixated on birthrights and genetics. Many of these folks can’t help from going there. There’s a likely reason that former KKK leader David Duke touts the president’s agenda or why the far right is attracted to this movement like white on rice.

The GOP establishment has long embraced the idea of America as universal magnet, based on lofty ideas that resonate with people from all races and backgrounds. Nationalists mostly reject that concept. To them, America is the product of a time, place and people. They can’t talk about their views for long before fretting about third-world immigrant rapists and yammering about cosmopolitans. Nationality—not liberty—is at the core of their philosophy.

“A concerted and long-term attack against the civilization of white, European and North American man has been launched,” Francis said at a 1994 conference sponsored by a group that’s focused on racial issues. “The war against white civilization…invokes liberal ideals as its justification and as its goal, but the likely reality is that the victory of the racial revolution will end merely in the domination or destruction of the white race and its civilization by the non-white peoples.”