The reconstituted Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was the largest social movement of that decade, it fed off illiberal currents, admired fascist regimes, embraced paramilitarism and political violence, and enforced Prohibition as an attack on the lifeways of European immigrants and non-white-Christian populations.

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Stephen Hahn

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the largest social movement in the 1920s...It admired fascist regimes...enforce prohibition which they regarded as an attack on the lifeways uh of European immigrants and others who were not white Christians.

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The Very American Roots of Trumpism | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:04:01 AM

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