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Trump and This Murdering KKK Cannibal Have a Lot in Common

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The Rise and Fall of the Klan

In the 1920s, there were up to 6 million members of the Ku Klux Klan and their base was not in the old Confederacy. The slogan of the Klan elected governor Colorado was, every man under the Capitol Dome, a Klansmen. And what you see today is hatred and intolerance and fear of others. There it was almost institutionalized. They came, we can get into this later, but they didn't damn close to making a run for the White House because they had dominated the political conventions in 1924. A lot of people, and I'm afraid to say this, think my book will be banned in Florida, because it's a shameful part of our history that we supposedly can

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