Once the GOP took over the mantle of "Confederates", they became the party of the lynch.
When did Booker, Frankenstein and Harris join the repubs? Because they wanted to go back to
their roots and lynch Kavanaugh.
"Roots"?
What are you talking about?
Democrats were the ones who used to lynch under the guise of the KKK, remember?
Uh nnnnnnnnnnno they were not. For one thing the Klan was never a political organization; for a second no lynching anywhere --- and there were a great many outside the purview of the Klan ---- had a requirement for any political affiliation, for a third thing such lynchings typically targeted black people and sometimes Jews, which means if there was a lynching
all three of the names you just mentioned would have been on the
receiving end.
Damn, that was the lowest-hanging fruit I've gulped down in a long time.
Ummm, spin it however you like. The KKK were full of democrats in the south. Lynching was used as a metaphor, but you already knew that.....right?
Not real well-versed in history are ya. I'm sure stereotypes are amusing but....
>> The Klan of the 1920s 'enrolled more members in Connecticut than in Mississippi, more in Oregon than in Louisiana, and more in New Jersey than in Alabama,' wrote historian Stanley Coben. Over half a million Klansmen lived in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Klan-backed candidates, all running on platforms both dry and xenophobic, were elected governor in Oregon, Colorado, and Kansas. << ---
KKK and the Anti-Saloon League
It was estimated that
one-third of the entire male population of Indiana was in the Klan. And I should add, the author above didn't mention additional governors of Maine and Indiana, a Senator in Colorado, four-fifths of the city council of Anaheim and the mayor of Portland (OR) were all Klan-backed and elected at the same time, and all of them were Republicans. And of course when D.C.Stephenson had his little escapade of rape and cannibalism he took down the entire Republican power structure in Indiana.
Which is not to say that KKK worked only with Republicans; they also got a Democrat elected governor in Oregon. Their bigot energy got those local offices in the West and Midwest and New England and Pennsylvania in New Jersey, as well as in the South, and they got the Johnson-Reed Act into law in 1924 to curtail nonwhite immigrants, and they used whatever political party would get them what they wanted in that time and place.
But this has little to do with "lynching". No doubt the Klan was involved in some lynchings especially surreptitiously but lynchings were usually a very
public event. Complete with postcards and souvenir body parts. Nobody needed a political party at all since, like racism and slavery before it, it was a social construct. And it took place nationwide, not at all confined to the South. And the fact remains, lynchings typically targeted blacks (which both Booker and Harris have in their ethnicity) and Jews (Feinstein) -- in fact the main iteration of the Klan was founded in 1915 using some of the remnants of a lynch mob that had murdered Leo Frank, a Jew.
See
my thread on Lynching in America for gory details if you have a strong stomach (and no that's not a Kavanaugh reference). Omaha. Illinois. Indiana. Duluth Minnesota -- about as far from the South as you can get without being in Canada.
Finally, the Klan has never had a political party association, endorsement or requirement. It had a religious requirement (Protestant Christian), yes. It had a racial requirement (white) and a nationalistic jingo requirement. It has never required a political party.
Stereotypes are just the sloth of those who can't be bothered to crack a history book.