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I suggest that they be called The Party of Know-nothings.
Think Progress » Jindal: ‘It Hurts Our Feelings’ To Be Called The ‘Party of No’ 2010
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The Know-nothings are a potent force in the teabagger ranks.
Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters. 2010
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I suggest that they be called The Party of Know-nothings.
Think Progress » Jindal: ‘It Hurts Our Feelings’ To Be Called The ‘Party of No’ 2010
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May they go the way of the Bull Moose Party, Whigs, and the Know-nothings.
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When the Know-nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’
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If the likes of Bonzo Jr. and the '08 crop are the best they can do, the Republicans should rightly and soon follow the Whigs and the Know-nothings into richly deserved oblivion.
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They are the Know-nothings of our post-modern era.
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This tendency toward Forrest Gumpism is hardly surprising given that the current crop of nativist conservatives are the direct intellectual descendants of the "Know-nothings" and the current administration's motto, despite Bush's intention to be the "edumacation president", is the most hostile to science, reason and fancy book-learning since, well...possibly Andrew Jackson, but at least Old Hickory, for all his faults, recognized the danger posed by corporations.
Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008
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Little more than a year after the Know-nothings were first heard of, they came into collision with the subject, in the summer of 1855, and, after stormy dissensions at their great convention, broke up into several branches, some of which totally altered or abandoned the original objects of their association.
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Of all the associations ever formed, none promised to exercise so important an influence as that of the Know-nothings, or the
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