That's right. Byrd was in the KKK and was a democrat from West Virginia. I would never have voted for him and he was an embarrassment. But WV is now Trump territory and the KKK is effusively praising Donald J Trump, the current Republican president because the Donald J Trump, the current Republican president is signal boosting the message the "Unite the Right" neo-Nazis and Klansmen who were in Charlottesville this past weekend to save those "beautiful" statues venerating their "history and culture. 

Trump + KKK = message alignment.