Republicans constantly make the same boring arguments about this, and it doesn’t matter how often we debunk them. Byrd was in the Klan in his youth and denounced his former racist views in the 1980s.
Since then, the GOP has harbored white supremacist candidates, especially David Duke. White nationalists run on the Republican line. Besides, not only did Marjorie Taylor Greene attend that white nationalist political conference, a total of six Republican officeholders were there.