Today the KKK is a bunch of misfits who know they wouldn't get any press if they announced they were ‘20 guys from Joe's Gas Station Who don't Like Blacks’. The real threat of any time is the ‘movers and shakers’ of that time. It's never ‘past boogie-men’ of an earlier time.
So True. All movements or political organizations must have some power behind them pushing an agenda or organizing the spoils - regardless of how spontaneous, or grass roots they appear on the surface. Whether Mao's Red Guards, or Obama's #BLM or Southern Democrats' KKK