The Party of Hate - The Party Of Death has a very long history of mindlessness and hatred.
The original Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865, by six former Confederate officers: Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest served as its first leader, or "Grand Wizard".
Democrats all.
Heck, just look up Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd. Served as the "esteemed" Senator from West Virginia for over 50 years. Byrd was also proud to be a Grand Kleagle of the KKK.
And today, we have the candidate for the Senate from Maine, Graham Platner - he of the Nazi SS Tattoo.
Lovely, just lovely.
Byrd’s excuse was basically everyone was doing it back then.
KKK leader and recruiter for new members, Sen. Robert Byrd shown with adoring acolyte Hillary Clinton. Even a kiss shown.
Senator Robert Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to establish a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Sophia, West Virginia, in the early 1940s.
Wikipedia.
He operated primarily out of the neighboring unincorporated community of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, where he lived and worked as a butcher. After successfully recruiting the required 150 members to form the chapter, the KKK’s “Grand Dragon” traveled to a meeting at the Crab Orchard home of a local law enforcement official to officially organize the klavern, and Byrd was unanimously elected its top officer, or “Exalted Cyclops”.
From washingtonpost.com