America has built. The illusion of reform the United States government tried to introduce to the public began to strengthen the Ku Klux Klan because the weak electoral structures allowed America’s polarization to expand because the elected politicians, regardless of the political party, perpetuated racist, pro-Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant ideologies. Not only did politicians endorse the socio-economic aspect of the Klandom, but it also distorted the KKK’s narrative to create a gateway for policies they wanted to pass to further their agenda, reconstructing a systematic oppressive system for blacks. Historians view the Ku Klux Klan as either a political strategy in order to gain votes for senators, presidents, and, Supreme Justices, to maintain the hierarchy of whites, the objective of the first Klan, fearing their decline in power and blacks becoming their “masters. Overall, the evolution of the Ku Klux Klan literature portrayed the conflict of the relationship between the Ku Klux Klan and politicians lead to corrupt governance that further polarized America.
Susan Lawrence Davis, a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan offers the narrative of the Klan through her own experience and the resistance of the South antebellum as a way to observe the polarization during Reconstruction; she establishes how associations with the Ku Klux Klan and politicians organically occurred. Firstly, she warrants the “real” Ku Klux Klan different from the spurious Ku Klux Klan that lynched, killed, and other unlawful acts, however, strays from the moral of their commonality, the imposed superiority of whites and rather masks it with South’s right to retribution. General George A. Custer, like many Southerners after the Civil War, thought that “any man but one who had borne a prominent part in the Confederate States Army or was in opposition to the Federal Government could be elected. Certainly, no 'loyal man could" even if some saw the "national ad...