Get More Smarter on Tuesday (September 13)

Embracing the Ku Klux Klan.

It's true the Klan's home was in the Democratic Party thru the 20's. But that changed as racial and economic issues forced the parties to adjust thru the 20th century. The Voting Rights Act and Nixon's Southern Strategy resulted in most Klansmen (and women) becoming Republicans.This is undeniable.

And Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been winking and nodding thru the entire campaign to their most deplorable constituents:

We have not seen a candidate inspire the Klan the way Trump inspires them in many a year. Indeed, he's inspiring white supremacist groups of all kinds and is actually creating new ones. There is ample documentation to support this starting with the fact that white supremacist groups ran robo-calls for Trump throughout the GOP primaries and the Trump campaign certified a number of white supremacists as official delegates to the Republican convention.

Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK, David Duke, endorsed him enthusiastically and is so inspired he's running for office again himself.  And as everyone knows Trump named Steve Bannon, a card carrying member of the white nationalist alt-right as his campaign CEO.

These are the people Hillary Clinton said were in a"basket of deplorables." And yes, she said that half of Trump's voters fit the description although she later clarified that "half" was an exaggeration. But if what we're talking about are people with deplorable racist views it really wasn't.

Let's not allow the daily news cycle to erase the fact that these deplorable remarks made by Trump were all affirmed by bloodthirsty screams of his supporters:

As was Trump's bashing of the Gold Star family that criticized him during a speech to the Democratic National Convention.

As was Trump's spastic imitation of a disabled reporter with whom he had differences.

As was Trump's declaration that American-born U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn't be fair when presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University because he "is of Mexican heritage" — a remark that Republican U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan called "textbook" racism.

As was Trump's denial that he knew anything about famed white supremacist David Duke.

As was Trump's cavalier dismissal of the service record of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five years: "He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said. "I like people who weren't captured."

As was Trump's preposterous assertion that he knows more about how to combat the Islamic State than U.S. military generals.

As was Trump's invitation to his pals in Russia to do additional computer hacking into Democratic party servers.

As was … well, you get the idea. Trump has cornered the market on preposterous, offensive, ill-advised and utterly false utterances.