Derek told her that he didn’t want white nationalism to cause damage in the lives of people he actually knew. “I consider all of this more like a really interesting thought experiment,” he said, and he tried to avoid her questions about specific friends by resorting to vague, theoretical answers. “I don’t expect us to go back to being a whites-only country,” Derek said. “Maybe there are ways in which that might be good, at least in theory, but it is obviously unrealistic.”
