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IN 1924 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEEDED TO PICK A PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE TO RUN AGAINST CALVIN COOLIDGE.
THEY KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE HARD.
COOLIDGE WAS FAIRLY POPULAR. HE HAD BECOME PRESIDENT WHEN
WARREN HARDING KEELED OVER AND DIED IN OFFICE.
AS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE WAS PRETTY WIDELY LIKED, HE WAS OVERSEEING
A PRETTY GOOD ECONOMY, RUNNING BASICALLY AS AN INCUMBENT TO TRY
TO HOLD ON TO THE SEAT. AND THE DEMOCRATS KNEW THAT
COOLIDGE WAS GOING TO BE HARD TO BEET IN 1924.
BUT THE DEMOCRATS HEAD INTO THEIR CONVENTION THIS YEAR, IN
THE HOT SUMMER OF 1924 INTENDING TO PICK SOMEBODY TO RUN AGAINST
COOLIDGE AND THEY AT LEAST FELT LIKE THEY HAD A COUPLE OF GOOD
CANDIDATES TO CHOOSE BETWEEN. THIS IS A TIME WHEN THEY CHOOSE
THEIR NOMINEES AT THE BIG MEETING OF THE NATIONAL PARTY.
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS CONVERGED IN THE SUMMER OF 1924 THEY KNEW
THEY HAD TWO FRONT RUNNERUNNERS A DEMOCRAT NAMED AL SMITH.
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK AT THE TIME.
AND WILLIAM GIBBS McDUE. HE WAS ORIGINALLY FROM
TENNESSEE, ULTIMATELY BECAME A SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA IN THE
WOODROW WILSON ADMINISTRATION. HE WAS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
AND HE PULLED OFF THE MAJOR CUE OF MARRYING PRESIDENT WILSON'S
DAUGHTER WHILE WILSON WAS PRESIDENT AND McDUE WAS SERVING
AS THE SECRETARY OF TREASURY. THEY HELD THE WEDDING AT THE
WHITE HOUSE. IT WAS A BIG DEAL.
MACK KA DUE IS THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT, A FORMER
TREASURY SECRETARY, A SENATOR, VERY RICH WITH TIE TO THE WEST
AND THE SOUTH, VASE CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
VERY VERY VERY WELL CONNECTED. AND IN FACT THE LAST TIME
DEMOCRATS NEEDED TO PICK A PRESIDENTIAL CAN DATE FOUR YEARS
EARLY IN 1920, THEY VERY NEARLY
PICKED McDUE. THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE BETTER WITH
HIM IN 1920 THAN THE GUY THEY ULTIMATELY PICKED AND LOST.
AL SMITH HAD A GOOD SHOT OF GETTING THE NOMINATION BUT
WILLIAM MACK KA DUE WAS IN GOOD STEAD TO.
HE HAD ONE ACE IN THE HOLE. A SECRET WEAPON.
WHICH IS THAT HE ALSO HAD THE KLAN.
THIS WAS 1924, KU KLUX KLAN WAS ABSOLUTELY ASCEND ENT IN THE
1920s. THE FILM CAME OUT AND SWEPT THE
NATION, HELPING TO REVILIFY THE KLAN IN THE OLD DAYS.
THE KLAN GOT MORE WIND IN THEIR SAILS WHEN THEY BECAME ONE OF
MAJOR POWERS PUSHING FOR PROHIBITION.
LOOKING BACK ON PROHIBITION, IT SEEMS LIKE U ONE OF THE MORE
UNLIKELY THINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY WE EVER WOULD HAVE
DECIDED, TO BAN ALCOHOL AS A COUNTRY, REALLY, WE DECIDED
THAT? BUT AN UNSUNG BUT IMPORTANT PART
OF WHY THAT HAPPENED WAS THE KLAN SUPPORTING PROHIBITION.
AND BY THE TIME THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS MAKING THIS HARD
CHOICE OF WHO TO PICK TO BE THEIR NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT IN
1924, THE KLAN THOUGHT IT SHOULD HAVE A SAY.
THE KLAN WAS BIG ENOUGH, CONFIDENT ENOUGH, WIDE SPREAD
ENOUGH IN TERMS OF THEIR REACH THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY SHOULD
GET TO MAKE THE CALL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.
AND THE TWO FRONT RUNNERS WERE THAT GUY WILLIAM GIBBS McDUE AND
AL SMITH. AND FOR THE KLAN THAT WAS AN
EASY PICK WAS AL SMITH WAS A CATHOLIC.
AND THE KLAN WAS AS ANTI-CATHOLIC AS THEY ANTI-SO
MET TICK AND ANTI-BLACK. THE KLAN WENT ALL IN FOR
WILLIAMS GIBBS McDUE. AND THE KLAN WAS CENTRAL TO THE
FIGHT FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION THAT YEAR.
AN ANTI-McDUE DELEGATE FROM ALABAMA OF ALL PLACES PUT
FORWARD A PLANK FOR THE PARTY PLATFORM THAT YEAR THAT WOULD
HAVE CONDEMNED THE KLAN. THE FIGHT TO APPROVE THE
ANTI-KLAN PLANK FOR THE PARTY PLATFORM ABSOLUTELY CONVULSED
THE CONVENTION THAT SUMMER. THEY WERE LITERALLY FIGHT IN THE
AISLES. THEY AT ONE POINT CALLED IN A
THOUSAND POLICEMEN TO BREAK UP THE BRAWLING ON THE FLOOR OF THE
CONVENTION. ULTIMATELY THE ANTI-KLAN PLANK
AND THE PARTY PLATFORM, IT WAS VOTED DOWN.
IT WAS VOTED DOWN BY ONE VOTE. POLITICO.COM DID A RETRO REPORT
ON THIS A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO AND RESURFACED THIS
HEADLINE, ANTI-KLAN PLANK LOSES BY 541 AND 3/20thS OF A VOTE TO
542 3/20ths OF A VOTE. RIOTOUS SCENES MARK THE ROLL
CALL. BEDLAM OVER THE KLAN.
SECOND POLL IS REQUIRED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION ON THE KLAN
QUESTION. AND IN THE CHART THERE IN THE
THIRD COLUMN, IT'S THE LIST OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE AT THE
CONVENTION AND WHO VOTED HOW ON THE KLAN PLANK.
IT WAS THAT BIG OF A DEAL. FAILED BY ONE VOTE.
AND WHEN THE ANTI-KLAN -- SO THE PRO-KLAN SIDE WON, RIGHT?
WHEN THE ANTI-KLAN PLANK LOST BY THAT ONE VOTE, 20,000 MASKED
HOODED CLANSMEN RALLIED ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER IN NEW JERSEY
TO MARK THE MOMENT. THEY DIDN'T THINK THEY WOULD BE
ABLE TO RALLY IN NEW YORK, NOT WITH THEIR ROBES AND MASK.
THEY CROSSED OVER TO NEW JERSEY AND SHOWED FORCE, 20,000 OF
THEM. THEY HAD AN EF GI OF NEW YORK
GOVERNOR AL SMITH AND THEY BEAT IT UP AND TORE IT APART.
BUT THEN THE CONVENTION HAD TO MOVE ON TO PICKING ITS NOMINEE,
RIGHT? YOU GOT TO PICK THE KLAN
CANDIDATE, THE CANDIDATE THAT WAS CLEARLY FAVORED BY THE KLAN
AND WOULDN'T DENOUNCE THEM OR SAY A WORD AGAINST THEM AT A
CONVENTION THAT COULDN'T APPROVE AN ANTI-KLAN PLANK OR ARE YOU
GOING TO PICK THE CATHOLIC GUY, AL SUBMIT.
IF THAT'S THE SPLIT IN YOUR PARTY, HOW DO YOU BRIDGE THAT
KIND OF SPLIT? FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT
YEAR IN 1924 THEY COULDN'T BRIDGE IT.
THEY STARTED BALLOTING, THEY STARTED TAKING VOTES ON WHO THE
DELEGATES WANTED TO BE THEIR NOMINEE AND HONESTLY THEY
COULDN'T GET THERE AND THEY COULDN'T GET THERE AND THEY
COULDN'T GET THERE. THAT CONVENTION DRAGGED ON AND
ON AND ON IN THE JULY HEAT IN MADIMADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
THAT THING WENT ON FOR 16 DAYS WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN
THERE AND NO AIR CONDITIONING AND THE FIGHTS AND THE COPS AND
THEY KEPT GOING BALLOT AFTER BALLOT AFTER BALLOT.
FAMOUSLY THAT ONE ULTIMATELY WENT TO 103 BALLOTS.
A RECORD. AND IN THE END THEY COULDN'T
DECIDE. THE DEMOCRATS FINALLY IN THE
END, EXHAUSTED, THEY PICKED NEITHER OF THEIR TWO CANDIDATES.
THEY DID NOT PICK WILLIAM McDUE NOR DID THEY PICK AL SMITH.
THEY ENDED UP THROWING IN THE TOWEL, PICKING SOME OTHER GUY
NAMED JOHN DAVIS WHO NOBODY KNEW AND BASICALLY HAD NO CON SFICH

THEY WERE SPENT WITH THEIR FIGHT OVER THE KLAN AND WITH THE KLAN
THAT SUMMER IN NEW YORK. THEY RAN THAT GUY JOSH DAVIS, HE
GOT TROUNSED. COOLIDGE WON THE ELECTION, SWORN
IN IN MARCH OF 1925 AND THE KLAN, HAVING FLEXED ITS MUSCLES
THAT WAY IN NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE LEAD UP TO THE ELECTION,
COOLIDGE WASN'T THEIR GUY. THEY WANTED A DEMOCRAT IN THERE.
BUT THEY DECIDED THAT ONCE COOLIDGE WAS IN THERE, IT WAS
TIME FOR THEM TO MAKE ANOTHER SHOW OF POLITICAL POWER.
AND THIS TIME THEY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE IT WITHIN ONE POLITICAL
PARTY, PARTICULARLY A POLITICAL PARTY OUT OF POWER.
THIS TIME THEY WANTED TO FLEX THEIR MUSCLES ON THE NATIONAL
STAGE. THIS PICTURE IS FROM AG 1925,
DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF CALVIN COOLIDGES PRESIDENCY AFTER THE
ELECTION OF 1924. MICHAEL BESHLASH TWEETED THIS
OUT TODAY. THOSE ARE KLAN ROBES, THE KU
KLUX KLAN MARCH IN FULL HOODS AND ROBES MARCHING IN
PENNSYLVANIA IN 1925. THEN A YEAR LATER THEY DECIDED
TO COME BACK AND DO IT AGAIN, THIS TIME, EVEN BIG IR.
IN THE FALL OF 1926, SEPTEMBER OF 1926 THE KU KLUX KLAN HELD
THEIR NATIONAL CONCLAVE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., SECOND TIME
THEY RALLIED THOUSANDS STRONG IN D.C. IN TWO STRAIGHT YEARS.
WHEN THEY TURNED UP IN 1926 THEY TURNED OUT 50,000 MASKED ROBED
KLANSMEN WHO MARCHED IN FORMATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I'VE SEEN THESE PICTURES, NO MATTER
HOW MANY TIME I'VE GONE THROUGH THE PICTURES, I HAVE A HARD TIME
BELIEVING THAT THAT SHOW OF KLAN FORCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., I
STILL HAVE A HARD TIME BELIEVING IT'S REAL.
BUT THAT WAS REAL. 1926.
50,000 KLANSMEN MARCH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
THE FOLLOWING YEAR IN 1927 THERE WAS A KLAN RALLY AND MARCH IN
NEW YORK CITY. IT STARTED OFF WITH A GROUP OF
FASCISTS, BLACK SHIRTS WHO CLASHED WITH NEW YORK CITY
POLICE AND THEN THAT MELEE WAS JOINED BY ABOUT, ACCORDING TO
NEWS COVERAGE, BY ABOUT A THOUSAND KLANSMEN WHO TURNED OUT
IN NEW YORK, IN QUEENS, TO MARCH AGAINST THE POLICE.
THE "THE NEW YORK TIMES" PUBLISHED AT THE TIME SOME OF
THE TEXTS OF THE HANDBILLS THAT THE FLYERS THAT THE KLAN WAS
DISTRIBUTING AT THE TIME EXPLAINING WHY THEY WERE
MARCHING, WHY THEY WERE RALLYING.
THE HEADLINE ON THE FLYER SAID AMERICANS ASSAULTED BY ROMAN
CATHOLIC POLICE OF NEW YORK CITY.
THAT WAS THE EXPLANATION FOR WHY THEY HAD TO MARCH AGAINST THE
POLICE. SO IN MAY OF 1927 A THOIS
KLANSMEN AND SOME ASSORTED FASCISTS MARCHED IN QUEENS IN
NEW YORK CITY AND ULTIMATELY RIOTED AND FOUGHT WITH POLICE.
NOBODY WAS KILLED. THERE WAS A LOT OF NEWS COVERAGE
OF IT AT THE TIME, WHICH SURVIVES BOTH FROM THE "THE NEW
YORK TIMES," FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, A FEW OTHER PAPERS.
THE POLICE COMMISSIONER AT THE TIME MADE A POINT OF TELLING THE
PUBLIC THAT THIS WAS KIND OF A LANDMARK MOMENT FOR THE KLAN IN
NEW YORK CITY. IT'S NOT THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW
THAT THE KLAN WAS ACTIVE IN NEW YORK CITY, IT'S JUST THAT NEW
YORK CITY HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN A THOUSAND KLANSMEN TURN OUT IN
THE STREETS IN ROBES AND MASKS LIKE THEY DID IN MAY 1927.
ACCORDING TO NEWS REPORTS AT THE TIME, THERE WERE SEVEN MEN
ARRESTED AT THAT KLAN MARCH IN NEW YORK, ONE OF THEM WAS FRED
TRUMP, THE FATHER OF DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP HAS PREVIOUSLY RESPONDED TO REPORTING ABOUT
THIS INCIDENT BY SAYING IT NEVER HAPPENED, NEVER HAPPENED.
NEVER HAPPENED. THE WHOLE THING IS MADE UP.
BUT THERE IS CONTEMPORANEOUS NEWS COVERAGE THAT BOTH
DESCRIBES AND SHOWS PICTURES OF THAT MASS KLAN MARCH, INCLUDING
KLANSMEN MARCHING IN NEW YORK CITY IN HOODS AND ROBES AND HIS
FATHER'S NAME DOES SHOW UP AS ONE OF THE ARRESTEES FROM THAT
MARCH. AND THE SINS OF THE FATHER ARE
NOT THE SINS OF THE SON. FOR ANYBODY.
BUT THAT IS NOT A REASON TO IGNORE HISTORY AND PRETEND THAT
EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR LIFETIMES IS HAPPENING FOR
THE FIRST TIME. I MEAN WE THINK OF THE KLAN NOW
IN TERMS OF ITS ROLE AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DURING
RECONSTRUCTION, DURING JIM CROWE, DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS
ERAS IN THE SOUTH. WE THINK OF THE KLAN AND THEIR
ATTENDANT MODERN WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS AS A MAGNET
FOR TOOTHLESS LOSERS AND CON ARTISTS AND SMALL-TIME VIOLENT
THUGS AND SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE LEGITIMATE FREAKING NUTS.
BUT IT'S NOT ANCIENT HISTORY TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE WHITE
SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES THAT PERSISTS
DECADE AFTER DECADE THEIR THEIR GOAL IS NOT TO REST ON THE EDGE.
THEIR GOALS AND THEIR EXPECTATIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
THAT THEY SHOULD EXERT REAL MAINSTREAM POLITICAL POWER.
THAT THEY SHOULD GET TO PICK THE PRESIDENT.
AT LEAST THEY SHOULD GET TO PICK WHO RUNS.
I MEAN WHAT IS UNPREDICTABLE NOW IS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
EXPECT FROM THOSE GROUPS GOING FORWARD NOW THAT IT'S A MODERN
PRESIDENT WHO APPEARS TO BE PICKING THEM.
>> WHEN YOU SAY THE ALT-RIGHT, DEFINE ALT-RIGHT TO ME.
YOU DEFINE IT. GO AHEAD.
DEFINE IT FOR ME. LET'S GO.
>> SENATOR McCAIN DEFINED THEM AS THE SAME GROUPS --
>> EXCUSE ME. WHAT ABOUT THE ALT-LEFT THAT
CAME CHARGING AT THE, AS YOU SAY, THE ALT-RIGHT.
DO THEY HAVE ANY SEMBLANCE OF GUILT?
NOT ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE NEOSENATEDIES OR WHITE
SUPREMACISTS. THOSE PEOPLE WERE ALSO THERE
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO PROTEST THE TAKING DOWN OF A STATUE OF
ROBERT E. LEE. EXCUSE ME.
AND YOU TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE GROUPS AND YOU SEE -- AND
YOU KNOW IT IF YOU WERE HONEST REPORTERS, WHICH IN MANY CASES
YOU ARE NOT. BUT MANY WERE THERE TO PROTEST
THE TAKING DOWN OF THE STATUE OF ROBERT E. LEE.
I NOTICE THAT STONEWALL JACKSON IS COMING DOWN.
IS I GEORGE WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK AND THOMAS JEFFERSON THE WEEK
AFTER? YOU REALLY HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF
WHERE DOES IT STOP. BUT THEY WERE THERE TO
PROTEST -- EXCUSE ME. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE NIGHT
BEFORE, THEY WERE THERE TO PROTEST THE TAKING DOWN OF THE
STATUE OF ROBERT E. LEE. >> THEY SHOWED UP IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- >> EXCUSE ME.
YOU HAD SOME VERY BAD PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP.
BUT YOU ALSO HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH
SIDES.
YOU HAD PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP -- EXCUSE ME.
EXCUSE ME. I SAW THE SAME PICTURES ADDS YOU
DID. YOU HAD PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP
THAT WERE THERE TO PROTEST THE TAKING DOWN TO THEM A VERY VERY
IMPORTANT STATUE AND THE RENAMING OF A PARK FROM ROBERT
E. LEE TO ANOTHER NAME. YOU HAD MANY PEOPLE IN THAT
GROUP OTHER THAN NEO-NAZIS AND WHITE NATIONALISTS AND THE PRESS
HAS TREATED THEM ABSOLUTELY UNFAIRLY.
>> WE'RE SAYING THAT THE PRESS TREATED WHITE NATIONALISTS
UNFAIRLY? >> NO.
THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THAT RALLY, IF YOU LOOK, THERE WERE PEOPLE
PROTESTING VERY QUIETLY THE TAKING DOWN OF THE STATUE OF
ROBERT E. LEE. YOU HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THAT
GROUP THAT WERE THERE TO INNOCENTLY PROTEST AND VERY
LEGALLY PROTEST. >> AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS
TODAY PRAISING THE WHITE SUPREMACIST GATHERING IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA THIS WEEKEND, THIS BECAME ANOTHER ONE
OF THOSE DAYS WHERE THERE WAS CONDEMNATION OF THE PRESIDENT
FROM DEMOCRATS AND OBSERVEOBSER MIEMTD CONDEMNATION OF THE
PRESIDENT FROM MEMBERS OF HIS OWN POLITICAL PARTY.
IT WAS AN INTERESTING THING THAT HAPPENED LATE THIS EVEN, EARLY
THIS EVENING WHEN SOME WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TRIED TO
DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS AS WELL, AT
LEAST ONE SENIOR OFFICIAL ANONYMOUSLY TELLING NBC NEWS
THAT MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM, STUNNED BY THE PRESIDENT'S
WORDS TODAY. THIS ONE SENIOR WHITE HOUSE
OFFICIAL TELLING REPORTERS, TELLING NBC NEWS THAT THE
PRESIDENT WENT ROGUE, THAT THERE WAS NO EXPECTATION AMONG THE
WHITE HOUSE STAFF THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO MAKE
REMARKS ON THIS SUBJECT AT ALL. AND AS MUCH AS SOME WHITE HOUSE
OFFICIAL MIGHT WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT, IT'S CLEAR THAT
THAT ACCOUNT WAS NOT TRUE. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAUGHT THIS
HIGH RESOLUTION SHOT OF THE PRESIDENT FOLDING UP NOTES
CLEARLY ABOUT THE WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY AND STICKING
THEM INTO HIS SUIT JACKET POCKET BEFORE HE STARTED TAKING
QUESTIONS ON THIS. THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT THERE TO
TALK ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE. HE WAS OBVIOUSLY INTENDING AS
WELL TO TALK ABOUT THIS MATTER TODAY.
HE HAD PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT THIS MATTER TODAY.
WHITE HOUSE STAFF WOULD SAY THAT THIS WAS COMPLETELY SHOCKING TO
THEM, THAT HE WENT ROGUE, HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO TOUCH THE
SUBJECT. THOSE MEMBERSBERS OF THE WHITE E
STAFF ARE COVERING FOR THEMSELVES AND INVENTING
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TODAY THAT MAKES THEM LOOK BETTER THAT
IS NOT ACTUALLY WHAT HAPPENED. AND THIS WAS A LOT OF THINGS
TODAY. IT WAS NOT APPARENTLY A MISTAKE.
IT HAS TO STOP BEING TREATED AS A SURPRISE.
THIS WAS NOT THE PRESIDENT ACCIDENTALLY BLIRTING INTO
SOMETHING THAT SOUNDED LIKE SYMPATHY FOR PEOPLE WITH
UNPOPULATED POLITICAL VIEWS. THIS IS ON PURPOSE.
THE PRESIDENT BUILDING UP AND TRYING TO CENTER UP IN AMERICAN
POLITICS A LONG STANDING FORCE IN WHITE AMERICAN POLITICS AND
CULTURE THAT WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO THINK OF AS A FRINGE
THING. BUT IT DOES HAVE A VERY LONG
HISTORY AND IT DOES HAVE REAL FORCE.
THE PRESIDENT IS NOT MESSING UP HERE.
HE DID NOT TRIP AND ACCIDENTALLY PRAISE WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND KE
NEO-NAZIS WHO ACTUALLY KILLED SOMEBODY THAT WEEK.
HE IS BUILDING UP SOMETHING THAT WAS A LONG STANDING FORCE FOR
POLITICAL POWER AND TERROR IN THIS COUNTRY FOR GENERATIONS AND
HE IS NOW DOING WHAT HE CAN TO HELP THEM COME BACK.
AND PARTISAN AFFILIATIONS COME AND GONE, RIGHT?
THE PARTY HAVING THE HUGE FIGHT OVER THE KLAN IN 1924 WAS THE
PARTY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. PARTIES CHANGE, PARTY
AFFILIATIONS CHANGE, IDEOLOGICAL IE LANESES COME AND GO,
CANDIDATES COME AND GO TO THE POINT THAT WE CAN'T REMEMBER THE
NAMES OF MOST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NOT TOO LONG DOWN THE
ROAD IN HISTORY.STORY. WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP OR
NOT, WH YOU HAVE A PARTISAN AFFILIATION OR NOT, WHETHER YOUR
OWN FAMILY HAS EVER LIVED THROUGH THE TERROR THAT IS THIS
VIOLENT RACIST ELEMENT OF AMERICAN CULTURE, THIS
PERSISTENT VIOLENT RACIST ALMOST IN AMERICAN CULTURE IS A REAL
THING THAT WE'VE LIVED THROUGH BEFORE AS A COUNTRY.
AND IT WAXES AND WAYNES BUT IT HAS NEVER REALLY GONE AWAY.
AND NOW THE PRESIDENT, WORKING OVERTLY AS PRESIDENT IS DOING
WHAT HE CAN TO BRING IT BACK AND BUILD IT UP.
AND SO FAR HONESTLY IT'S WORKING.
HEAD'S UP. THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE.

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