In the end, the KKK did not choose to support Donald Trump because he was a Republican but because they agreed with the ideas that he (and other far-right Republicans) spout. It is finally time to face the rise in the twenty-first century of a new form of white nationalism and its alignment with many leaders of the Republican Party, including Trump.
Theres an unbroken timeline of the conservative south being racist for all of American history. Even that time they used to be mainly democrats, but then democrats stopped being racist so they switched to republican.
I think it’s better said that the majority of the racism in the Democratic Party (but not the entirety of it) went with them after they defected to the Republican party. The primary reason they held on as Democrats for so long is because the Republicans were responsible for beating them in the Civil War and ending slavery. They refused to ever vote for a Republican for generations after that out of spite, even after the Republicans and Democrats swapped ideological positions in the early Twentieth Century.
Gonna have to disagree with you chief. That racism is all still there. Democratic racism is just more subtle. Start talking about building affordable housing/apartments or busing low income kids into their schools in a well to do liberal neighborhoods and they all turn into David Duke.
Case and point, Boston is as blue and liberal as they come but I guarantee you’ll hear the nbomb there about as often and enthusiastically as you would at a Trump rally in Mississippi
Considering how the Democratic party panders to and demands special treatment for anyone who isn’t cis and white, thus implying all others are inferior, I’m not sure the racism ever left.
Let’s not forget “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, you ain’t black!”
Equal rights ≠ special treatment
Protection against violence and discrimination ≠ pandering
Thinking that the fair and dignified treatment of minority groups is mistreatment of the ones who still have the vast majority of the wealth, power and opportunities to prosper = bigotry and false victimhood
What special treatment are you referring to?
The one they made up so they can stay mad
Your username is an understatement.