The literature of white supremacy promises what so many young men have always sought: the chance to become the hero. Different causes appeal to different people, but it is no coincidence that, if you swap out the proper nouns, the recruitment pitch to join ISIS sounds a lot like the recruitment pitch to join the Aryan Brotherhood. The imagined nobility of it all has lured countless people into extremism, especially young men, and while it appealed to Lucas as well, this too only took him so far. “I had already read Mein Kampf by this time and pretty much concluded that Hitler was a clown.”