>The Klan's body count exceeds William's by several orders of magnitude.
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>Yes. And the Klan was a left wing organization. You don't mention that very much, do you?
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>The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders.

You want to explain how the Klan was _left_wing? They were reactionary, wanting to return to the good ol' days when blacks (not, of course, the word they use) "knew their place"?

The Republicans were the left then, if you can compare at all to our current situation.

Tamar