Every idiot in the media gets the Klan wrong. It was founded as the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. Its goal was to keep working class whites voting Democrat and to suppress the black vote. It was part and parcel with Democrat efforts to legislate discrimination through Jim Crow laws. The KKK did not exist independent of the Democrat Party. Once the Democrat Party stopped having a use for the Klan, it faded away and now only nutcases and complete losers are members. It didn’t turn into a Republican organization — it died when the Democrats stopped supporting it, period.
Couple of other things to thank the Dems for: The Confederate States Of America. Succession. The Civil War.
Extortion-Care is the new Klan.
BTTT good explanation of KKK and Dems