He wasnt very bright to run as a Democrat. The KKK is rightwing. He just happened to be a exceptionally stupid racist.
You're playing fast and loose with the truth. The KKK is the brainchild of the Democrats who fought tooth and nail to destroy the Republican Anti-Slavery Party Antebellum through the late 1960s. So hateful were they in my area, I decided for my entire lifetime I would avoid becoming a Democrat. Instead, when it was time to make up my mind, I went with Republicans, who had a 150-year history of fighting against slavery, then for black suffrage and equal rights, then for equal education (Little Rock, 1954) and equal pay for equal work right on up through today.
The Democrat Party has never been able to equal up to the Republican Party, so they reinvented history to fool simpletons into thinking they had nothing to do with their Party starting and using the KKK to scare and kill blacks throughout its miserable history. Oh, and did I say the KKK hates people of Jewish extraction also? Yesterday, a former KKK Grand Dragon murdered a 14-year-old boy and his Grandfather for being at a Jewish Community Center where the 14-year-old had come to sing.
It is being considered a hate crime, but mass murder is mass murder, they were singled out merely by being there.
Democrats started the KKK, they persecuted blacks and other ethnicities, and they're obviously still at it. Democrats can take responsibility for what they started and that it is no different from what they started--the unfair taking of law and lives into their own hands without a trial or jury.
Stop the false accusations against Republicans who fought for black rights for well over a century, and Democrats only came in recently to steal the vote with their eye on the keys to the United States Treasury. If you don't believe it, you haven't read of Nancy Pelosi's family involvement in Solyndra and how they helped themselves and their friends to half a billion dollars of OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY paid for dearly in tax form. Also, with similar manipulation of legislation, Harry Reid was able to route a 1.3 billion deal to his Chinese pals who hired Reid's son to do the lawyer part.
Can you say nepotism and racism are what you're defending? I can!