I've been around the block more than a few times in my 60+ years. I've met avowed Marxists, former members of the Weather Underground, people who think the NRA is too moderate and people of every race and description. But I don't think I've ever met a bonafide white supremacist.
It probably comes down to how one defines the term. Is ‘The Bell Curve’ supremacist, for example? or is it actually advocating legal or political policies.... Could be millions by some definitions and almost zero by another, perhaps.....
#8 I’ve met several white supremacists and they are batshit crazy. I attended a KKK/American Nazi Party rally in Brentwood, Md around 1969 or 1970. It was a learning experience, like stepping back into Nazi Germany of the Deep South of the 30’s. Talk about psychopathic losers.
Also met and talked to J.B. Stoner at a congressional hearing I was covering. He looked like Pinky Lee (same hat) as well as I.F. Stone (CPUSA, KGB). Very polite to the media but his writings were all racist and anti-Semitic.
Even knew some Liberty Lobby members. Also batshit crazy, anti-Semitic, possibly anti-Catholic (or just the pope), etc.
They are out there and always will be but America has grown up and they are vestigial relics of a shameful past. However, they keep the SPLC fully funded by their raising the spectre of a massive way of anti-black extremists rising up against America.
SPLC, like these white extremists, are extremists on the Left who follow the old Stalinist disinformation line of “No threat from the Left”.
And the real reds like Ayers, Rudd, Jarvis Tyner and others who I’ve met over the years are just a crazy and ideological psycopaths as their counterparts on the right, only they get university jobs.