On February the 18th, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson screened a film for senior government officials in the East Room of the White House. It was called The Birth of a Nation, a three-hour piece of propaganda that glorified the Ku Klux Clan and portrayed emancipated black Americans as unworthy of freedom. and marked a chilling inflection point when white nationalism stepped out of the relative shadows and into the center of the federal government.And if that sounds familiar to you, it's because we're watchin ...