Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The thing about the Ku Klux Klan is, there's no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. There are a dozen competing Klans, each claiming apostolic succession from the original Klan, with somewhat varying degrees of plausibility. The fortunes of each group and of the Klan movement as a whole wax and wane depending on all manner of petty circumstances, as membership and attention shifts between different would-be Klans and between the Klan and other currents of the far-right. In practice, a lot of them aren't even centralised groups, but shaky confederations of local organisations, so a prominent incarnation of the Klan can vanish almost overnight if a number of chapters abandon the franchise.
The recent upsurge in Klan membership is, I think, basically down to the fact that it provides a door to the white supremacist that doesn't feel "un-American". Explicit neo-Nazism remains suspicious to people who've been conditioned by a thousand hours of Glen Beck to think Hitler is some sort of European socialist. I wouldn't be surprised if we a shift in emphasis from "traditional" American white supremacy to neo-Nazism as newly-robed Klansman down a few more handfuls of red pills.
The recent upsurge in Klan membership is, I think, basically down to the fact that it provides a door to the white supremacist that doesn't feel "un-American". Explicit neo-Nazism remains suspicious to people who've been conditioned by a thousand hours of Glen Beck to think Hitler is some sort of European socialist. I wouldn't be surprised if we a shift in emphasis from "traditional" American white supremacy to neo-Nazism as newly-robed Klansman down a few more handfuls of red pills.
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