That's very true of the Patriot Front, an ethno-nationalist group whose idea of "patriotic" apparently does not include non-whites, non-Christians or apparently non-males. But I'm still curious about what motivates the 400 or so young men to leave their homes and take to the streets dressed like demented preppies. It's hard to disentangle the ideological strands of the online hard right, but a similar discourse has grown up around white identity. A thread that runs through neo-Nazi and other hard-right groups is the fear of other races, whose numbers and place in society seem to them uncomfortably on the rise, at the expense of white men. Yet I'm still old-fashioned enough to believe we do our young men -- and women -- a very valuable service by encouraging them to live, learn and work together across racial, religious and gender lines -- as Americans.