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Her grown son told her he was going camping. Then he was arrested with accused Patriot Front extremists near an Idaho Pride event. It was a turning point ...

But they're not going to take him in and help him out and find a job," she added of the men in his group. "We are not dealing with the same set of facts," Pierre says. It's too tiring and too toxic to try to fix this part of a world that already feels overwhelming. Others tell me they no longer invite their grandfather to be around their children because he's turned into an "angry right-wing nut job from the cult of Trump" who is spewing "xenophobic nonsense." I just want him to realize where the love and support really is coming from," she said. And that pushed Amsden to the end of her rope. "For the true believer, it's not just the belief. He has chosen the Patriot Front over his family," Amsden said through tears. And she says she is also the mother of an extremist. Amsden was watching her grandsons that weekend, as Boyce said he wanted to go on a camping trip. He did have struggles, in particular, after his father left the family to live as an openly gay man, Amsden said. "We were really close," she said of her only child.