One of Alinsky's rules is "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it."
Trump is doing a masterful job at avoiding the canned low-IQ-Dem-voter-spam that the press dutifully forcefeeds the public at Obama's and Hillary's behest. Hence the "so -and-so is a great guy, I get alone with him, he means well" ; and hence the "Planned Parenthood helps millions of women, they're great except for abortion" : it's hard to hang a flaming tire around his neck, compared to the old GOP-e candidates who would helpfully strike a match and hand it to the Democrats, to prove how "bipartisan" they were.
Seriously: the KKK was founded by bitter Confederates including cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest, right after the Civil War. Robert Byrd was the top Dem in the Senate and had been a high official in the KKK, and nobody cared -- "aw, hell, he's one of ours, and besides, he can't help it, he's from West Virginia." But Trump is a Billionaire worldwide luxury real estate developer from New F*cking York City. You can't get more YANKEE than that.
It is appalling that any single host spreading the baldface lie, DIDN'T have their microphone shoved up their foul smirking ass, right on the spot, live on national TV, for even daring to suggest it.
The KKK was founded by 4 college students at Pulaski College...They rode horses through town one night with white robes on for a prank and saw that it scared people, so they kept doing it...At first, it was to scare students who were thought to be cheating or being lazy at the college, then, when Forrset joined, it was to frighten Yankee carpetbaggers who were taking advantage of Southerners during reconstruction...
When it turned racial, Forrest left the Klan...That is the history...