Does the KKK even have enough members to swing an election anywhere? I personally doubt it. This is more like the “dead cat” day.
When the news is slow you throw a dead cat in front of a politician and report his reaction.
Now days you throw the KKK slur in front of a politician and report his reaction.
Everytime the media gets the vapors about a “Klan Rally” it invariably involves no more than five toothless products of inbreeding assembling on the steps of a County Courthouse somewhere.
This is all a demagogic lie by Ryan. Ryan KNOWS Trump disavowed on friday. Still he smears him worse than the Democrats are. Payback is going to be a you know what.
The last time they had such power was in the 1920's. Although they had some strength in parts of the South in the 1960's, since then they have mainly served as a minor nuisance and a straw man of the Left.
"Dr." David Duke, who holds a "Ph.D" from a questionable institution in Ukraine, is another straw man. After a brief stint in the Louisiana state legislature nearly thirty years ago, he went on to be a perennial candidate--sort of a Southern-fried Harold Stassen--for various offices over the next several years.
The KKK held a statewide convention in Alabama a few years back and just over fifty attended. I think there a few thousand members nationwide.