The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic party. They targeted anyone who they suspected of being a Republican.I don't know who the hell you think you mopped the floor with but if you seriously think you did it claiming the democrats aren't the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation and inner city slums you're an idiot.The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.
The KKK has never had a political party, kkklown. I've mopped the floor with every clueless wag who has tried to float this turd and I'll mop you up too.
{goes to bat rack, selects lumber....}
Let's just go with the most recent. Just because it's handy. This was in response to one of y'all mythologists who tried to sell "every Klan member was a Democrat" --- as if every person has a political party at all
Here's your history. With details.
The Klan was founded on Christmas 1865 by Capt. John Lester, Capt. John B. Kennedy, James Crowe, Frank McCord, Richard Reed and Calvin Jones, in Jones' father's law office at 205 West Madison Street in Pulaski Tennessee. All of the six were twentysomething ex-Confederate soldiers and zero of them had any known political affiliations -- not that there was any voting going on in 1865 Tennessee anyway.
Moreover their stated purpose was a frivolous address of boredom (hence all the whimsical K-alliterations of Klan, kleagle, klavern, etc) and had nothing to do with elements that took it over from the six founders, elements made up of the "night riders" that had been already going on since the eighteenth century, before the United States existed as a country.
That Klan lasted less than a decade and would have been relegated to the historical scrapheap with literally dozens of similar vigilante groups that sprang up in the same era including Caucasian Club(s) (Louisiana 1869), Heroes of America (South Carolina), Knights of the Black Cross (Mississippi), Knights of the Rising Sun (Texas 1868), Knights of the White Camellia (Louisiana 1867-69), Knights of the White Carnation (Alabama), Native Sons of the South (Mississippi), Order of Pale Faces (Tennessee 1869 or 1867, Society of the White Rose (Mississippi) and the White League (Louisiana 1874) --- which was the organization commemorated in the "Liberty Place" monument that was recently removed by the City of New Orleans...
---------- if not for William J. "Colonel Joe" Simmons, who took a gaggle of guys who had lynched a Jew up Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving Day 1915 in a rented bus where they burned a cross and rekindled the ("Knights of the") Ku Klux Klan, which upon hiring a PR team became by far the largest and most pervasive iteration of the Klan.
Simmons was an ex-Methodist minister, salesman, huckster, drunk (ironic since his Klan was staunchly pro-Prohibition) and inveterate club-joiner who was looking to (and did) make money from membership fees. He too had no political affiliation.
Easy enough to demonstrate who the Klan was not. So who actually were they?
"Lifting the Klan mask [19th Century version] revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, 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." --- Elaine Frantz Parsons, Ku Klux: "The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction" (UNC Press) p. 816
As far as "every Klan member was a Democrat", already an absurd statement on its face as it ass-umes everybody in existence is even registered with a political party, I give you:
Owen Brewster -- Maine Governor, Congresscritter and Joe McCarthy apologist. Klan and Republican.
Rice Means -- Senator, Colorado. Klan, Republican.
George Baker -- Mayor Portland Oregon. Klan, Republican.
4/5 of the City Council of Anaheim (1924) --- Klan, Republican
Clarence Morley -- Governor, Colorado. Klan, Republican
Ed Jackson -- Governor, Indiana. Klan, Republican.
Speaking of Ed Jackson and Indiana -- which accomplished the dubious feat of having the largest concentration of its population in the KKK:
Oh and also Charles Bowles, who won the 1930 mayoral election in Detroit, as a write-in. Agan, Klan, no party at all.
In Maine, Klan Republicans were opposed by anti-Klan Republicans, Maine being as overwhelmingly Republican as the "solid South" was Democrat. And in the South, Klan Democrats were opposed by anti-Klan Democrats.
The Klan supported, or opposed, Republicans, or Democrats, depending on what served its interest in that time and place. That is, when it dabbled in politics at all and wasn't going after drinkers, labor unions, blacks, Jews, Catholics, adulterers and in at least one case whipping a (white) woman for "not going to church".
You go right ahead and try to prove ANY of that erroneous. I've given you details. Go fetch.
So much for mythology. You don't sell bullshit on my watch.
Oh yeah I've got plenty more.