And here we go, the devil in the details. Roll it.
a. Liberal historian Eric Foner writes that the Klan was “…a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party…” Foner, “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,” p. 425
b. The Ku Klux Klan was the Terrorist Arm of the Democrat Party
By Frances Rice
Interesting. "Eric Foner" just had a name and sex change, now operating as "Frances Rice". Wait 'til Wendy Carlos hears about this.
Democratic Party leaders and media surrogates falsely link the Republican Party to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan never had a political party; when it dabbled in politics it supported or opposed either Democrats or Republicans depending on what worked for them in that time and place. Including supporting Ed Jackson, Rice Means, Owen Brewster, George Luis Baker, Ben Paulen, Clarence Morley, four-fifths of the city council of Anaheim, Albert Johnson and uncountable local officials in Indiana New Jersey, Ohio etc -- ALL of whom were Republicans --- including opposing Oscar Underwood, Jack Walton, Stetson Kennedy, Huey Long, Franklin Roosevelt, Al Smith and John Davis -- - ALL of whom were Democrats. Examples to the contrary could be cited as well: when Georgia was dominated by Democrats, both the Klan-supported and Klan-opposed would be Democrats, at the same time in Maine, dominated by Republicans, both the pro-and anti-Klan movers and shakers were Republicans.
That's not a "party link to the Ku Klux Klan",now is it. Strawman burned down.
In reality, it was Democrats who started the Ku Klux Klan that became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
Again --- and you've been schooled on this over and over and over --- NAPE. It was six young bored ex-soldiers forming a social club, in a time and place where political parties didn't exist. And instead of me schooling you yet again, your own post is going to do it. Roll on.
In his book, A Short History of Reconstruction, Dr. Eric wrote: “Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club,
Et voila, although the date is wrong, it was 1865. It may not seem crucial but in 1865 Tennessee was not part of the United States; it returned in 1866. That does mean that when those six young ex-soldiers founded a silly social club (SEE ABOVE) based on the college fraternity Kuklos Adelphon, no political parties even
existed there. No elections took place, no government ruled beyond the military occupation. DUH?
the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican Party leaders, black and white. In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy.
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Serving the interests of". That's not somehow retroactively "being founded by" that party, now is it, Hypo? If, say, Pete Buttigieg eclipses Joe Biden, thereby removing Biden as Rump's rival, that serves the interest of Rump. Does that then make Rump a "Democrat"?
This is all sailing clear over your tiny little head, isn't it. Wwwwhhhoooossssshhhhh
Dr. Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and one of America’s most prominent historians. He is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. His bio can be found on the Internet at:
Eric Foner: American Historian
Yeah I already know his bio, and he just backed up what I've posted for YEARS about the origins of the Klan, with the exception of the errant date.
BLACK REPUBLICAN BLOG: The Ku Klux Klan was the Terrorist Arm of the Democrat Party
c. “And just as the paramilitary and hooded Ku Klux Klan was used as, per Columbia University historian Eric Foner, “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party” and, according to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease, the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party,” so now the hooded- fascists of Antifa are being used as a paramilitary organization designed to further the Left’s political agenda by force.”
Antifa: The New Ku Klux Klan | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
Off the topic, and a blog anyway.
But as good a time as any to note that the Klan of the 19th century were targeting interlopers, those "carpetbaggers" from the North coming down to rape the spoils of war, as well as their sycophants, called "scalawags", many of whom may or may not have been "Republicans" --- in other words irrespective of political parties.
We might also insert here another North Carolina historian, that being Elaine Franz Parsons:
>> Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime
guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. << -- Parsons, ""Midnight Rangers: Costume and Performance in the Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan", p. 816
d. "The night riders move through the darkness, white against the black road....they go about their business, their horsed draped, guns and bullwhips banging dully against saddles.
--- Stop there.
"Night riders".
WHAT have I kept telling you about the already-existing element that took over the Klan garb and name, AFTER the original founders were out of the picture? WHAT have I schooled you about these "Night Riders", also called "slave patrols" or "Regulators"?
Once AGAIN for those not paying attention the first 132 times, "night riders" were posses of local townsmen who would scour their area at night looking for escaping slaves, and that had been going on since AT LEAST the eighteenth century, presumably longer since slaves have always attempted escape. This was a local "civic duty" in slave states. Abraham Lincoln's father had been part of one in Indiana. THESE were the elements who adopted the Klan mystery into the violence they were already committing without necessarily hiding behind masks. They didn't found the Klan -- they took it over. It was this same element that brought the KKK to draft Nathan Bedford Forrest to be its figurehead in order to lend it "respectability" and it was the same element that led Forrest to disband the organization and order its paraphernalia destroyed a year and half later in his first and only "General Order No. 1".
....this is the South Carolina of the 1870s, not of the turn of a new millennium, and the night riders are the terror of these times. They roam upcountry, visiting their version of justice on poor blacks and the Republicans that support them, refusing to bow to the requirements of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments."
From the novel "The White Road," by John Connolly
A NOVEL. You're actually arguing from
fiction now, being bereft of fact. Nevertheless the quoted passage is an accurate setting.