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MSNBC
Published on Aug 16, 2017

Rachel Maddow looks at the history of Ku Klux Klan in American politics and its quest for power and points out that it was no
accident that Donald Trump helped give racists legitimacy with his remarks about the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBaWbDh2XYM

In there listen again to Trump's infamous "very good people on both sides."

Yep, parties change. Trump is trying bring white-nationalism back to the center of American politics.

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Fourth Estate

1924: The Wildest Convention in U.S. History

Nearly 100 years ago, it took the Democrats 103 ballots and 16 sweaty days to select a nominee. Could the GOP be headed for a similar showdown this year?

By JACK SHAFER March 07, 2016

Jack Shafer is Politico’s senior media writer.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/1924-the-craziest-convention-in-us-history-213708

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Did the Ku Klux Klan March at the 1924 Democratic National Convention?

An Internet meme holds that the KKK touted its political power by marching en masse outside the convention, which allegedly became known thereafter as the "Klanbake."

David Emery
Published 15 May 2018



The Ku Klux Klan held a march and rally at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which was thereafter popularly known as the "Klanbake."

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The 1924 Democratic National Convention, which lasted an unheard-of 16 days and required 103 ballots for delegates to agree on a nominee, holds the record as the longest continuously-running presidential nominating convention in United States history.

It was also one of the most controversial. The Democratic Party was deeply divided, with one of its two main candidates — New York’s Irish Catholic governor Alfred E. Smith — representing the so-called “urban” faction of the party and the other, former U.S. Treasury Secretary William McAdoo, representing rural interests. McAdoo’s constituency was anti-League of Nations, pro-Prohibition, anti-immigrant, and pro-Ku Klux Klan. Smith’s was the opposite.

Attesting to the growing influence of the KKK in American politics at the time, a platform plank favored by Smith supporters that would have condemned the Klan by name went down to defeat after a raucous debate that degenerated into fisticuffs. On the 103rd ballot, the delegates finally nominated a dark-horse candidate named John W. Davis, who, in contrast to his GOP counterpart, Calvin Coolidge, would take a strong stand against the KKK during the presidential campaign. Coolidge won the election by a landslide.

Despite the fact that the Klan had sunk its tendrils just as deeply into Republican Party politics (an anti-KKK platform plank similar to the one rejected by Democrats met the same fate .. http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9606/21/index.shtml .. at that year’s Republican convention), the extent of the group’s supposed control over the 1924 Democratic convention has come to be exaggerated to legendary proportions. That is in large part thanks to the efforts of social media propagandists bent on tarring Democrats in particular with the legacy of the Klan’s religious bigotry, xenophobia, and racism.

The Internet is rife with memes asserting, for example, that the KKK put on a show of power by holding a massive march and rally at the convention, which supposedly became known, for that reason, as “the Klanbake”:

This photo was at the 1924 Democratic National Convention. It was known as the Klanbake in case liberal want to Google it. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/BMdKzxgyWS

— Johnny Dee (@Johnny_Capione) January 16, 2017

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/klanbake-1924-democratic-convention/