The rest of the title: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. This was part of 3 books in a row that just seemed hard to read--Rust, The Threat and this one. All three were serious struggle books and while the author in Rust seems to have gotten through her rough part and this book eventually the KKK went back under a rock, they are still there and then the FBI is struggling under new leadership that really shouldn't be there. All 3 sort of depressing in different ways, oh well, still all good reads. This one about the KKK reforming in the 1920s and becoming a power in the US, not just in South but also the midwest and west. I have a hard time understanding how people could ever want to join a group like this that is based on hate and fear. I see today with voters putting Trump back in charge and many want the illegal immigrants out of our country but I think most don't want all out but Trump played on people's fears. It is like how the KKK did the same, playing on people's fears of African Americans, Catholics and immigrants--the 1920s was a time of change and small town midwestern people did not want that much change I guess. Similar to today & not just with immigrants but also Trump wanting to push out any form of DEI. I just seems like it is almost the same playbook as the 1920s except modernized. Instead of paying off pastors and threatening businesses, the conservatives have Fox News and the multiple other channels and podcasters spreading the fear and arguing to fight back for our country. Just a sad state of affairs that our country was in in the 1920s and again today in the 2020s.
There are 27 WL for this book on PBS but I am keeping it. This is a book that I need to think about more and probably recommend to others.
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