A Portrait of the Conspiratorial and Revenge Fantasies of Extremist Racist Ideologues in The Turner Diaries and Hunter

Adherents of extremist, anti-Semitic, and racist ideologies (generally termed “white supremacy,” or neo-Nazism) tend to envision the world in conspiratorial terms. Although there are individual differences among members of a particular supremacy group and among the various groups which comprise the movement, in general, these conspiratorial and paranoidal illusions focus on what the extremists believe is the role of the Jews in perpetrating a plot whose aim is the destruction of the “white” race (in this context, Jews are not considered “white”). Those that claim that there is a world-wide conspiracy to eliminate the white race cite growing cultural degeneracy (including homosexuality and race-mixing), inter-racial marriages, and the darkening complexion of people as the immigration of people of color to the United States increases. For a number of supremacists, the great fear is that they will lose their access to weapons as the United States government and liberals, the latter including Jews, strive to disarm the citizenry. These conspiratorial fantasies, which express the illusory and paranoid dreads of supremacists, are countered psychologically by their invoking revenge and rage fantasies that involve the violent destruction of their imagined enemies.