I think they're probably card-carrying neo-Nazis. I may be overworking my imagination, but I read a lot of subtext into the quotation "There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change."
One thing I have picked up on, by the way, is that, while some people who belong to neo-Nazi groups are visibly extreme personalities, others come across on the surface as regular everyday people. And they'll use matter-of-fact turns of phrase to suggest that it's the other people who are the bigots, not themselves. If it's eerie to listen to a loudmouthed hothead yell Nazi epithets, it's even more eerie to meet a soft-spoken, cordial, ostensibly kind-hearted gentleman, make friends with him, and then find out he's one of these people, something which has happened to me.
But in any case, there's no way that anybody who wasn't a neo-Nazi would give a child that name. And what they're doing, essentially, is making their own son a hostage.