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You'll realize that a lot of white nationalists are sad stories who grew up in screwed up environments and were called stupid by their parents. They're told: You're an idiot, you'll never amount to anything, you'll be flipping burgers at McDonalds, etc. Some kind of frustration that the parents are dealing with is projected onto their kid, who suffers psychologically a result, becomes blocked from criticizing the in-group authority figures in his life, and then he goes on to project his own frustrations onto an eternal scapegoat (the Jews etc.).
A big part of white nationalism is the attraction to a romantic quest. Like you'll hear their admiration for Hitler is because he ~took on the whole world~ like he was slaying a dragon, and the image of him is really more of a romantic but also put-upon figure who had suffered intolerable wrongs, and they relate to that. Probably made worse if they grew up around black kids who bullied them (which is also more likely if they grew up in poverty).
People don't show any sympathy towards them. It's very rare that someone who's not a white nationalist says to them that "you're not a loser, stop calling yourself stupid." But the other white nationalist guys will listen to them. Also it makes them feel powerful. Other people are afraid of them and that feels really good.
