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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: August 08, 1925 Democrats gonna Democrat — Klansmen parade in DC the Ku Klux Klan's first March on Washington Led by Democrat activist Hiram Evans, thirty-five thousand racists marched along Pennsylvania Avenue to intimidate friends of freedom.They were celebrating their terrorist organization's resurgence fifty years after Republicans had defeated it in the 1870s. So much had Klansmen dominated the 1924 Democratic National Convention that it was known as the Klanbake. Mindful of public safety, the Coolidge administration deployed troops to defend federal buildings. A year later, the KKK returned for another march.https://rumble.com/v6xb95g-condemning-the-ku-klux-klans-first-march-on-washington.html