The author pretty clearly wants to show that the white race will triumph over all others, becoming the One True Ethnicity of the planet. In doing so, the protagonists essentially destroy the planet and doom the rest of the human race to a long, futile struggle against nuclear winter, fallout, and 90% of the entire planet's population being destroyed. As a result, the message of the book comes across more like "racism will literally end the world."
The author tries to vilify The System by saying they condone all crimes as long they target white people and objectify people for their cause. However, the author tries to lionize The Organisation for doing the same by sacrificing people, murdering non-whites, and even killing people under false accusations. The lesson? "Revolutionaries can be just as bad as, if not worse than the oppressive system when they lack any noble goals or ideals."
Audience-Alienating Premise: It's a story where a group of fanatical white supremacist terrorists are portrayed as heroes. Needless to say, it doesn't have any fans who aren't also on that end of the political spectrum, and is banned in many nations.
Bile Fascination: This book's notoriety has drawn the attention of people unaffiliated with its insane political viewpoints.
Designated Hero: Comes with the territory of Neo-Nazis being the good guys.
Even with literally every single racist stereotype Neo-Nazis have about Blacks, Jews, liberals, gays, feminists, non-Nazi white people, etc, in full effect, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns and how they treat those among their number who fail in their mission (except Turner, obviously), and this is with the knowledge that they know they don't have any public support whatsoever. In fact, these omnicidal nuclear terrorists would actually make for great villains in any other setting. As comically tyrannical as the System is in the story, the Organisation often commit acts that are far worse as petty revenge in a staggering display of hypocrisy.
Designated Love Interest: Earl and Catherine, full stop. Earl doesn't really talk much about Catherine until he walks in on her in the shower and they immediately wind up having sex for no real reason. Their relationship doesn't really evolve much from that despite the author constantly saying they "love" each other.
This book also inspired Timothy McVeigh to orchestrate the Oklahoma City bombing, and few members of law enforcement were surprised; one FBI agent said that when he heard of the attack, he was reminded of the book "within the hour".
The end of the book concludes with the statement that "just 110 years after the birth of the Great One, the dream of a white world finally became a certainty... and the Order would spread its wise and benevolent rule over the earth for all time to come." Exactly 110 years after Hitler's birth date, the Columbine High School massacre occurs, perpetrated by two students who wanted to outdo the aforementioned Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing in bodycount and carnagenote they originally wanted to do it on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing but postponed it to the following day due to receiving ammunition later than expected. Said following day just so happened to be Hitler's birthday.
Inferred Holocaust: The story ends with a massive nuclear holocaust and billions of people dead. The white supremacists are probably not gonna enjoy their white-only world for too long, what with the radiation and massive environmental damage.
Informed Wrongness: The government is supposedly evil in this story, but considering the Organization commits abominable acts like teenage murder and lynching, one might actually be rooting for the government to defeat this band of racist psychopaths.
With the odd fixation of the metric system imposed by The System, even detractors often cite that said adoption of the metric system being the sole benefit of this alternate universe the book describes. Even so, they admit that the tradeoff isn't worth it.
A more sinister one is that "day of the rope", used to describe the Organization's mass-lynchings against perceived race traitors in Los Angeles, has become a byword in white supremacist circles to describe their desire to purge all their enemies.
THE ENTIRE BOOK. It's so stupid and impossible that it can stop being disturbing for readers and just a source of humor. Whether or not it's disturbing that Neo-Nazis actually believe talking points in the book is another matter.
"Someone get that honky cat."
Rooting for the Empire: More than a few readers hoped that the System would destroy the Organization.
To be expected in a novel with a white supremacist agenda. At one point, the attorney general of the United States government comes on television to describe the heroes as "depraved, racist terrorists".
A libertarian member of the racist organization early in its existence argues (quite correctly) that their wave of terror is doing nothing more than causing the government to clamp down even harder on normal Americans and that they're killing too many innocents which is causing the general public to hate them, which is entirely true. Of course the main character/narrator ignores the man's observations and has him executed for not being fully committed to the cause.
Tear Jerker: The ultimate conclusion sees the terrorist organization that had served as the "heroes" of the story destroying the System and sending nukes all across non-white countries to annihilate them. The world is a beaten-up husk with only small portions of it livable and the only free remnants of humanity mutants wandering a decayed husk. It's not any better for the surviving white people either, as the men will be used as an expendable labor force while the women will be turned into breeding machines under the ring of a dictatorship. Worse yet, there are people who genuinely believe that the future in this book should happen.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: There is practically no one worth rooting for in this book. Turner and his cohorts are Designated Heroes of the highest order and everyone else seems to be a racial stereotype.
