Find five and tell them that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.
 

This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.  Frances Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, critiques the book this way, “Dr. Foner in his book explores the history of the origins of Ku Klux Klan and provides a chilling account of the atrocities committed by Democrats against Republicans, black and white.”

“Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a ‘reign of terror’ against Republican leaders black and white.” (Foner, P.146) “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy.  It aimed to destroy the Republican Party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.” (Foner, P. 186)

“In most areas of the South, the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party were indistinguishable, and the white-supremacist Democrats used the clan to eliminate Republican opposition, assassinating many Republican officeholders and intimidating countless others. . . Thousands of southern blacks died at the hand of KKK killers.” Michael, Zak, Back to Basics for the Republican Party, (Signature Printing Company, Inc., 2003, P.99)

“In the fall of 1868, a mob of white Democrats followed up an attack on a Republican Party meeting in rural Louisiana with a massacre of some two hundred blacks in the area. This and other such assaults during the 1868 election campaign – essentially wiped out the Republican in Louisiana for the next one hundred years.” (Zak, P.99) In 1870 and 71 the (Republican) Congress passed a series of Enforcement Acts to ensure blacks the right to vote and to stamp out the Ku Klux Klan. The first law made denying someone’s constitutional rights a federal crime. The second expanded federal government control over the election process to curb the vote fraud perpetuated by Democratic Party machines in the North. (When the Democrats took control of Congress in 1894, they repealed this law.) The third outlawed the Ku Klux Klan and other similar terrorist organizations and gave sweeping enforcement power to the federal government. Within a year the Klan was virtually gone, but “once Democrat regimes replaced the Reconstruction state governments there was no longer any need for the white supremacists to carry out violent acts covertly when government authorities could again do so openly.” (Zak, P. 100)