was alone with the kids and they took me in as family,” Widner said. She eventually exited the movement after seeing women, including young mothers, being used as sexual objects, and discovering that male leaders preferred exotic dancers and pornography to respectable marriages. Widner’s new husband, also a former white nationalist, described having a similar realization. “What hypocrites! I mean, nobody cared about their kids, or their family,” he said.31

