The popularity of these figures reflects a larger social reality: many young men are searching for guidance about success, identity, and purpose. Traditional sources of direction — community institutions, stable career paths, and clear social expectations — have weakened.

Identity-centered religious frameworks are not unique to Christian Identity theology. Some strands of Black Hebrew Israelite movements, for example, employ similar mechanisms of ethnic chosenness, sacred struggle, and boundary formation, though with entirely different identity claims.

Given the extremely narrow margins in Congress, such differences may not merely reduce losses or gains. They could determine control of the House and influence the Senate balance with only modest seat changes.