The KKK was founded by Democrats…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) blasted Republicans as “racist” at a Martha’s Vineyard film festival last week — she even suggested the GOP is the party of the KKK.
“I talk to black folk all the time as somebody that’s a child of a preacher,” the Texas Democrat told the crowd. “Listen, most Black people are not Republicans simply because we just is like, ‘Y’all racist. I can’t hang out with the KKK and them.’”
“That’s really what it is,” she asserted. “But when we think about who we are as black people, and we think about where we come from, most black people have very conservative values, right?”
“But the reality is that, like, we just can’t side with, like, the neo-Nazis and them. We like, ‘We not – we not dealing with y’all like that, right?’”
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Who wants to tell her the KKK are Democrats? 😂 https://t.co/Oe7FbVjLcC
— Jessica 🇺🇸 (@RealJessica05) August 15, 2025
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate soldiers. What began as a fraternal club for ex-Confederates quickly turned into a violent paramilitary force bent on undermining Reconstruction and stripping newly freed Black Americans of their rights.
In that era, the Democratic Party dominated the South, serving as the political home for most former Confederates and opposing Reconstruction policies advanced by the Republican-controlled federal government — the party of Abraham Lincoln, which largely backed civil rights for freed slaves.
Many early Klan members were Democrats, and the group’s objectives often aligned with Democratic political aims in the postwar South.
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