A Missouri state trial court will hear Missouri Republican Party v Secretary of State, Cole Circuit Court 24AC-CC02151, on May 9, Thursday, at 2:30 p.m. This is the lawsuit filed by the Republican Party to prevent Darrell McClanahan from appearing on its August 2024 primary ballot. He is running for Governor. He is an honorary member of the KKK and the party is asserting a freedom of association right to exclude him from its primary.
He’s a good man and a patriot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-viral-meme-says-234400023.html
*LAWYER* BIDEN 76 OF 85 — JUST SWELL FOR BRAINWASHING DE VOTERS FOR 40 PLUS YEARS
As a klansman, clearly he should be on the democrat primary ballot. Even their blacks, jews and catholics hate all blacks, jews and catholics.
It’s troubling to hear that Darrell McClanahan, an honorary KKK member, is running for Governor. It raises serious concerns about the values he may bring to leadership. The Republican Party’s move to exclude him based on their right to freedom of association seems justified given the controversial nature of his affiliations. What are your thoughts on how this could impact the political landscape in Missouri?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/europe/belgium-auto-brewery-syndrome-scli-intl/index.html
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WHAT ARE THE BIDEN/TRUMP BODY EXCUSES — FOR THEIR STATIST MENTAL ROT ???
I don’t understand their negative attitudes towards the Klan. My good friend Robert Byrd was in the Klan, and he was a swell guy.
MO STILL FIGHTING CIVIL WAR I AS A BORDER STATE ???
SEE ALSO KY / W VA / MD / DE
I’d vote for him.
Was McClanahan convicted of insurrection? No. Therefore, he should be allowed on the ballot.
And elected!
Hey Dick, don’t you think it’s dishonest to say “He is an honorary member of the KKK”, while leaving out that he
i) denies having accepted the 1-year membership that was offered to him,
ii) denies having ever been a member,
iii) says white supremacy is against Jesus’ teaching of love for all,
iv) sent former member of the Missouri House of Representatives Shamed Dogan (R) a cease-and-desist for tweets claiming he was “a cross-burning KKK member and white supremacist”; and
v) sued the ADL for defamation, in a suit he only lost because the judge said there was no evidence that he had lost profits or been injured as a result of the ADL’s false allegations…
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White supremacy is not against Jesus teaching of love for all. Natural hierarchy is part of God’s plan. We don’t love children, women, the mentally deficient, heathens and unbelievers, inferior races and nations etc any less. White Christian men must accept our position of leadership at the head of the table, but that is not hate.
‘During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Dogan indicated he would vote third party if Donald Trump was selected as the party’s nominee, which he eventually was. Following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Dogan again condemned Trump, and stated that the “Republican Party needs to get back to its roots and get away from being a cult around the personality of Donald J. Trump”.’
Sounds like I was wrong and Shamed Dogan is the klansman who should (have) be(en) on the democrat rather than the republican primary ballot.
I don’t understand all this Klan-hating. It’s an honourable Christian fraternity which protects White ladies and children from rampaging negroes and mud people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
HOW MANY KKK FACTIONS — NOT HAVING 99-100 PCT FBI AGENTS ???
ANY KKK PARTY IN ANY STATE ???
Nick Knight makes a good point. KKK all the way!
*McClanahan sued the ADL for defamation, but a federal judge ruled in December that the characterizations made in the piece substantially aligned with the truth, noting that McClanahan’s own complaint acknowledged that he was an “honorary member” of the KKK and the League of the South and that he acknowledged having attended a 2019 cross lighting ceremony.*
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2024/03/22/mo-gop-sues-gubernatorial-candidate
Backing their claim, the ADL article has an actual picture of McClanahan standing next to a uniformed Klansman at the 2019 cross burning, both doing the salute, along with a sampling of his unequivocally bigoted social media posts. They also made reference to McClanahan having written an article for some Klan newsletter and him having posted his League of the South membership card online.
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/adl-researchers-identify-failed-extremist-candidates-missouri-and-north-carolina
McClanahan’s white supremacist beliefs are not in doubt. But, as long as he promises to restrict immigration, ban abortion, reduce the marginal income tax rate, enact protectionist tariffs, and end aid to Ukraine, I don’t see why today’s Republican party would object. Remove the protectionist tariff plank and he could also probably get the support of the Mises Caucus.
Thanks for the glowing endorsement editorial, Jim. If I lived in Missouri, I’d be all in.
Once upon a time, the first Ku Klux Klan of the 1860s-70s was a heroic organization, as celebrated in both “Birth of a Nation” and “Gone with the Wind.”
In the First Klan, the typical Klansman was a Confederate Veteran, an officer, a Plantation owner or member of a plantation family, a southern Lawyer or Merchant or Doctor of high standing in a world that had just then “Gone with the Wind.”
From 1915 into the 1920s and 30s (and even 40s, when the young future Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle), the Second Klan was a respectable upper and middle class social organization of GREAT political importance in the USA. The Klan dominated many upper class country clubs and Churches, and many prominent and respectable men were leaders. There were millions of members of the Klan in the 1920s.
In the Second Klan of the 1920s, the typical Klansman was a successful businessman, farmer, or rancher who opposed Jewish and other “off-white” immigration. His wife could join, his children could join. It was a respectable social organization.
Even in the 1950s, several much diminished “third klan” splinter groups had respectable membership opposed to integration and the civil rights movement. But the writing was on the wall. The Klan was marginalized, especially after the failure of the Southern Manifesto of 1957 and the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But by the 1960s, the third was purely reactionary, and once Alabama dropped it’s rooster carrying the banner “WHITE SUPREMACY FOR THE RIGHT”—George Wallace and all other Southern Democrats distanced themselves from the Klan (and the ideals of White Supremacy).
Today the typical Klansman (third or even “Fourth” Klan) is stereotyped as a tattooed skinhead with very low IQ and little or no education. This may be unfair to SOME, there are still respectable preachers and educated people in Northern Arkansas and Eastern Tennessee, perhaps, who are KKK members. But the desultory, lower middle class or lower class tattooed skinhead is not, on average, terribly far off the mark.
As for Darren’s candidacy…
The Republican Party started out as an Anti-Southern Party, in favor of emancipation and miscegenation, and ultimately the Republican Party presided not only over the original post-War destruction (falsely called “Reconstruction”) of the South, but also the second “Reconstruction” in the 1950s and 60s.
NEVER FORGET it was Republican Dwight David Eisenhower who appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren and sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to force desegregation.
The Republican Party has a long tradition of suppressing the Klan, and White Supremacy in the South, starting in the 1860s. Is this a noble tradition? I would say not.
But the traditions of the Republican Party are totally opposed to the Klan, while Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, and Robert Byrd were all “old school” Democrats.
But now, even David Ernest Duke of Louisiana acknowledges that the worst mistake of his life was identifying himself with the Klan. If he had not been a Klan member in the 1970s, he almost certainly would have been elected Governor of Louisiana in 1991, and/or Senator in 1992. At it’s height, in the 1920s, the KKK was one of the largest social and political organizations in the United States.
The Second Klan could have been a very powerful force, but even more powerful, and better organized (((anti-American))) influences prevailed. The Klan is mostly now a long and prominent footnote in history. Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party can affiliate with the Klan. A reborn American Fascist Party could, but there are no American Fascists with the gumption to do anything serious. They know they would be buried by (((the same people who buried the Second Klan in the 1920s))).
Karel, decent points.
However, DUKE would have still has to contend with the legacy of his college age street theater as an American Nazi. It’s unlikely that 1970s association with the Klan was what sank his political ambition in the 1990s. Photos of cosplaying in Nazi uniform probably would have been enough.
Sorry, Kalel, not Karel.
Also, unfortunately when you copy and paste comments in the box here it does that to your paragraphs unless you manually go back and hit enter twice between each paragraph.
You have no idea who all is in the Klan. I’m a sheriff’s deputy and a veteran, and politically active in my county GOP and MAGA groups among many others. My KKK membership, is on a need to know basis.
The Klan’s lower class reputation today is all about the people who flaunt their membership in public. People with respectable jobs, families, reputations and community ties don’t do that. We’re an Invisible Empire for a reason.
I forgot to mention that I’m also an undercover federal agent.
As far as Darrell McClanahan’s candidacy is concerned… the Republican Party is right about is own traditions, but dead wrong about trying to exclude an otherwise qualified candidate once he has qualified. I hope Darrell will freely admit that the modern Klan is not even a remote reflection of its past importance, and that he wants to be a governor for the benefit of ALL the people. His participation in a cross-burning ceremony may not have been brilliant PR, but objectively is no worse, and possibly not as bad, as Michael Dukakis posing in a tank while running for President….(For those who don’t remember or are too young, in 1988, Democratic Presidential Candidate Governor Mike Dukakis, a major anti-war advocate, posed wearing a Military Uniform in a Tank for one of his campaign ads. Dukakis’s general election campaign was subject to several criticisms and gaffes on issues such as capital punishment, the pledge of allegiance in schools, and a photograph of Dukakis in a tank which was intended to portray him as a sound choice for commander-in-chief but which was widely perceived to have backfired.). Edmund Muskie in 1972 cried when his wife’s reputation was insulted by a New Hampshire newsman. These behaviors may have cost Muskie and Dukakis their elections—BUT THEY WERE NOT GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION, and neither is attending an anachronistic meeting of a nearly defunct organization like the KKK.
I assume you actually mean you are an undercover federal agent, not that I am, Nick at Nite. If so, happy hunting. I’m not doing anything illegal.
It’s cross lighting not burning. Just trying to set the record straight. Shining Jesus Christ’s light for all to see. And we’re not nearly so defunct as you may think. Like Floridian said. The public Klan is the tip of the iceberg. For many of us we are fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth generation and more. It’s all about faith, family, freedom.
That’s right. Heritage not hate. When we say kinfolk, that’s literal.
Kalel S. Jorelson is filled with hatred and irrational prejudice. Against paragraphs.
Oh, you thought I was going to bring up the echo marks or something? No, that part is completely rational – and 100% correct.
Porcus Agricola: Whenever Duke is in the news, he is ALWAYS labeled first as “Former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.” Lots of people (including me) enjoyed and had a great time with his Nazi Cosplay. That was more an exercise in First Amendment provocation than a statement of a commitment to an anachronism. And anyhow, I know that this is what Duke says because he’s said it to me: that was his biggest mistake. Even the Nazi Cosplay, he could still have gotten BLACK votes in 1991/1992, because blacks know that the Jews are among their most exploitative and unfair landlords and money-gougers. With 60% of the White vote in Louisiana in 1991/1992, if he had gotten even 10-20% of the Black vote, he could have won. And in the 1990s there was a former black (mulatto) member of Hitler Youth (born in Hamburg) living in Uptown New Orleans. I heard him speak several times. He LOVED telling stories of the candlelight parades and the patriotism. He shook Goering’s hand. Blacks know that the Nazis were not THEIR enemies…. but the Klan was… and since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, blacks have the vote everywhere. So overt Klan membership is really bad marketing.
Floridian and Nick Knight (at Nite? which is it?): It doesn’t matter that there are lots of secret members of the KKK today. There are lots of people with lots of secrets around, but if people keep things secret, it means they have to. The First Klan was a “very well known Secret” and highly visible “Invisible Empire.” But the Second Klan, which was what really matters for this discussion, was HIGHLY PUBLIC and people like Governors, Judges, Senators, and Mayors all announced their Klan membership publicly as major positive PR points…. at least for some years in the 1920s and 1930s. Future Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, for instance, never kept his Klan membership a secret. So if people are members now but stay invisible, the Klan IS NOT A POLITICAL FORCE because POLITICS (running for office) is a very public activity. In other words, being a member of the Klan these days is even worse PR than admitting to shooting your dog because he couldn’t hunt.
When Duke has brought up in the news yeah they said kkk. If he hadn’t gone kkk they would say Nazi. I know exactly what the Nazi cosplay was and the media would have used it. If you think nazi cosplay gets Negro votes? Test your theory, go do some Nazi cosplay and run for office somewhere where there’s a whole lotta coons. Happy hunting, brother.
Being in the Klan was never supposed to be, and for the real Klan, anything about publicity – electoral politics, public parades, or anything like that. We have hoods and cloaks for a reason.
We are a fraternal order of kinship and heritage, blood and honor, and we honor our ancestors and their blood and bones, and protect White women and children from rampaging criminal negroes and muds when we must. Otherwise we just defend and celebrate our heritage and kinfolk. It’s all about blood and soul here in the South.
Also please do not lecture me about our history. Some of my kin rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest and were there when the Klan began. Our existence is never a secret. Our membership is. I’m well aware of latter history. The original Klan spooked the spooks.
Nick at Nite was someone lamely trying to make fun of my “name”. It really is Nick,but knight is for the noble order of White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Nick at nite on the other hand was a pedophile Jew tv program.
Kristi Noem is a beautiful lady and might make a great VEEP . My personal choice, Trump Jr, will not be selected unfortunately. Nobody cares about Mrs. Noem’s dog except leftards and people who know less about hunting than that sorry ass dog did.
Not sure why you are bringing up Noem at all, since I don’t see anyone else having mentioned her. But remember that she betrayed Trump’s voters at least as much as Trump himself did. Beauty does not make a good woman (just look at Amber Heard), much less a great vice president(ial candidate).
Kalel mentioned her. Dogs and hunting. Trump hasn’t betrayed me, and I didn’t say she would be a great VEEP because she’s beautiful. That’s really more her husband’s business anyway, but I mentioned it on passing. I don’t pay attention to Jew Hollywood filth.
Ah yes, so he did. The reference was too vague for me to realize he was taking shots at Noem.
In that post he also makes Hugo Black out as your average run-of-the-mill klansman, completely ignoring his exceptional judicial track record of championing civil rights against government overreach and his appointing of blacks, jews and catholics whenever they were the best men for the job…
Sadly, Hugo Black did those things. Those are the downfalls of public membership. He besmirched his cloak and oath and kinfolk.
Hugo Black, along with Joseph Story and John Harlan (Sr.), was one of the best three supreme court justices this country has ever had. In spite of having been a member of the KKK, not because of it. He put all that klan nonsense behind him as judge.
We have a difference of opinion. That’s ok.