Impeaching President Trump

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Originally Posted by Ligma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Again, possibly factually correct except for the assertion that the KKK was founded by the democratic party. But it's a disingenuous, bad faith arguement based on some kind of alternate history created by ultra partisan hacks.

But it's irrelevant because who's running the KKK, proud boys and patriot prayer RIGHT NOW?

History is never irrelevant. Inconvenient at times but never irrelevant.

From History.com:

Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away.