A major left-wing publication is claiming that the Council of Conservative Citizens and the League of the South are a major driving force behind the Republican party.

From Esquire…

For years, Republican politicians have accepted the money, and the support, and the cheers of nullification subversives from the League of the South and the Council of Conservative Citizens to the Wise Use people and the militia people out west, to the claque of subversives who set up camp at the Bundy Ranch. Without the support of people engaged in polite — and, occasionally, not very polite — sedition, the Republican party would be a bunch of rich old white guys pissing themselves in the grill room of a restricted country club.