Of course, he had to come forward — with the most preposterous of lies, since more likely than not, he helped engineer this bogus indictment in the first place through his MAGA contacts in the “justice department”.
I won’t repeat a word of what Hinderaker said. It. Is. All. Lies.
But I will note that the resurgence of the Klan was a direct response — to the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
Hinderaker’s false timeline, even in his own argument — is full of holes, lies and misrepresentations. There had been documented resurgent Klan gatherings and activity throughout the last half of the 1990s (as Bill Clinton advanced various civil rights measures), and they mostly subsided, while Bush43 was president. [Mostly because these hate groups were getting their way.]
All the while, the Southern Poverty Law Center was investigating, and yes, using paid informants (who were risking their very lives), to keep track of Klansmen — nationwide. [This is in no manner like Steve Bannon essentially stealing charity funds, from “We Build The Wall” — to pay off his personal credit card debts, rent wild private jet rides, and fund his other hate enterprises.]
As just one example, consider that Matthew Hale, and the World Church of the Creator hate group, were first identified by the SPLC, shortly after Ricky Birdsong was murdered in cold blood (in a racial assassination) not even one and a quarter miles from my house.
He was shot dead — in front of his daughter — while they were jogging. He was also the head basketball coach of Northwestern University.
Quickly finding his killers (and their affiliations to whyte supremacy / evil insanity groups), was in part due to the efforts of the SPLC — and that organization’s databases. Notice that that is at least 15 years prior to the idiotic claims in Hinderaker’s timeline.
What an embittered, darkly shriveled and decrepit soul that John is.
Out.
Powerline Lies... 
The Rabbit Hole chart that John shares, the one that asserts that, “The rise of white supremacy was a media generated narrative,” because of the steep rise in media mentions during Obama’s presidency, is spectacularly stupid. It’s like sharing a chart of AIDS media mentions spiking in the ’80s and asserting that “The rise of AIDS was a media-generated narrative. This is observable.”
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Yes, indeed.
And that’s exactly why I’m not quoting it in the post… So many people who follow and spout MAGA nonsense… lack even the most basic of analytical skills…
So we can’t give up any extra wood for stupid John’s fire. No, and in fact, it’s more like barely enough to cook us some s’mores over.
Damn.
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