The White Nationalist Militia movement view themselves as a mixture of 19th century southern confederates and 1930s Nazi Germans. This movement is populated by unapologetic white men of few words, no feelings, and a psychological crap ton of repressed, indignant anger. They believe they're noble freedom fighters and rugged individualists. They think their vision of America is the only valid vision for the nation. Their aim is to preserve "the white way of life." This is the mind-set that Donald Trump's presidential campaign pandered to. Members of this group are attempting to impose a white way of life that is so narrow-minded and bigoted that even most whites would passionately resist it.

The Boston Globe reports:

"And if Trump doesn’t win, some are even openly talking about violent rebellion and assassination, as fantastical and unhinged as that may seem.

“If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. “We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.”

These angry man-boys are having their energy harvested by high ranking right-wing political/economic interests like Trump and the tea-party. They’re told to be mad, who to be mad at, and who’s going to fix it for them, Trump. They're taught that everything that they deem "wrong" can be rectified if they can just keep their guns. Their freedom, liberty, and sense of their manhood is derived from their firearms and their indignant anger. They caress their firearms as a protection against social progress because they view that progress as threatening to their White way of life. They lack the vision and the mental acuity necessary to embrace progressive change. These bigots perfectly exemplify the old saying:

“When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”