Through describing his experience with the new leader of Ku Klux Klan, Ronson tells the readers that the extremists like the Klansmen are as good as stupid because of their extreme racist ideas, which blind them from seeing the very fundamental, and easy problem. In Ronson's narration, Thom Robb, the new leader of KKK, tells the Klansmen that they should look friendly, that they should act like the good guys, so they can gain the political power, or the support of "feminine masses". And he goes on to claim that they will not gain the political power if they kept the old, "bad" way, which holds much aggression and thus forming negative images in other people's mind. This depicts the absurdity of Thom's whole speech because KKK or any other racist group is not gaining public support not because of their negative image but of their very nature - a group existing to discriminate any other ethnic group than white.
I found this piece to be quite amusing because Ronson tells this story very objectively, as if he was just observing them and not really thinking or judging any of their actions. But it is hard not to think that people described in here are stupid. And Ronson's close-to-being-dry tone just adds to its witt. I thought that it was much harder to find a solid point on this piece than on Gross', because he's not really stating anything and just implying his point, letting the reader to feel what he's trying to say.
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