(Frontpage) — Senator Elizabeth Warren shrilly denounced efforts to defund Planned Parenthood for trafficking in baby parts. “Do you have any idea what year it is?” she demanded. “Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950’s or the 1890’s?”
Warren ought to know. She used to be a Republican, then she hit her head and has been stuck in 1848 ever since. But to understand why some people might have a problem with her favorite racist mass murdering organization, let’s try a visit back to 1926 instead.
That was the year that the founder of Planned Parenthood stopped by the women’s branch of the KKK. This was the 1920s Klan which billed itself as a “progressive” organization invested in creating a “closer relationship between capital and labor”. An arm of the Democratic Party, some members of the KKK also belonged to the Socialist Party, much as Margaret Sanger, the speaker at the women’s Klan branch had.
