And to try and align any political party with the KKK is also ridiculous. And for your information, the KKK was put out of business in large part by the actions of democrat lawyers.
Only to be brought back to life by funding from the Democrat organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of course, the rest of your statement was also incorrect. The legal principle by which the KKK was brought to its knees began with the passing of the Ku Klux Klan Acts, which was called for by President Grant, a Republican, and passed with no Democrat votes.
It came before the U.S. House as H.R. 320. Four political parties were present for the vote. Republicans voted 115 in favor, 0 against. Democrats voted 0 in favor, 91 against. Liberal Republicans voted 2 in favor, 0 against. Independent Republicans voted 1 in favor, 0 against. 18 members did not vote.
It moved to the U.S. Senate, where three political parties were present. Republicans voted 44 in favor, 3 against. Democrats voted 0 in favor, 14 against. Liberal Republicans voted 1 in favor, 6 against. 6 members did not vote.
Under Grant's Republican Administration, the KKK was effectively dissolved.
Later Democrat and some Republican Administrations refused to use the powers given to them by the Ku Klux Klan Act against the KKK, perhaps because the KKK held so little remaining power, and while the Act was still in effect, it fell into disuse for nearly a century.
The NAACP and other Democrat organizations used the act, not against the KKK, but as part of the Democrat campaign to sue Trump into oblivion.
The Klan was revived in 1915 under the leadership of William Joseph Simmons, a Democrat, who formed what is often referred to as the Second Klan, expanding its targets to include Catholics, Jews, and organized labor, although blacks remained a target. The Second Klan found some support in the North, including Maine, where its targets were largely Catholics, and Klan members and supporters were largely Democrats. In the South, Klan members were almost, if not entirely, Democrats. This iteration of the Klan was less violent than the first and later iterations of the KKK, although it was not entirely non-violent. Catholics and liberal Democrats did make the Klan an issue at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, however, proposing a resolution attacking the Klan. It was defeated; Democrats refused to condemn the Klan. The Second Klan fell apart, not through the work of Democrat lawyers, but due to internal corruption, factionalization, and the economic pressures of the Great Depression.
The only portion of the history of the KKK in which Democrats were not solidly on the side of the Klan was the "Third Klan," which came about in response to the Civil Rights Movement, when the Klan reemerged in fragmented, loosely connected groups targeting blacks and civil rights activists. Legal actions, public exposure, and societal condemnation from the bulk of society, including Republicans, reduced its influence. Unlike earlier iterations of the Klan, the Third Klan never regained centralized power and operated only on the fringes of society, with low membership and political impact. It was primarily active in the South. Yet, this is the Klan that people are led to think of when they picture the Klan today, although they make it out as being stronger than it was.
Today, Democrat organizations and politicians fight loudly and vehemently against a largely fictional Klan that wouldn't exist without being simultaneously funded by the same groups that exist to fight against it.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a Klan leader, however. David Duke left the Klan before Byrd did, although both men remained bigots. Byrd used the n-word from the floor of the U.S. Senate not long before he died. Yet, Hillary Clinton eulogized him and cited him as her mentor.
Fictional reports of Republican Klan members have included Warren G. Harding, who was actually an enemy of the Klan; and Calvin Coolidge, who was also adamantly opposed to the Klan.
Democrat Harry S. Truman did join the Klan in 1922, more than 20 years before he became president. He paid a Klan membership fee to win election as a court judge in Jackson County, Missouri, where the Klan was powerful. In fairness, there is no evidence that he was actively involved in the organization.
Trump, on the other hand, did not join the Klan to win an election, nor is there any credible evidence of his holding racist views. In fact, he briefly entered his candidacy for the presidency as a member of the Reform Party but withdrew after David Duke joined the Party because he refused to be in the same political party as David Duke.
Democrats like to cite his comments following a 2017 rally against the removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Virginia, although he clearly excluded white supremacist marchers in his comment about there being some "very fine people" involved in the protest.
Every time he disagrees with a black Democrat, he is accused of racism because, I guess, black Democrat politicians are supposed to be exempt from criticism, while black Republican politicians are regularly pilloried by Democrats.
By the way, I largely used Wikipedia, hardly a bastion of Republican propaganda, as a source.
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