Abraham Lincoln decried the same xenophobic anti-immigration chatter in the 1850s that Donald Trump uses today. Donald Trump, the last Republican president, evidently figures immigrant-bashing will ...
In the mid-19th century a political movement known as the Know-Nothing party gained many followers. Sometimes known as the American Party with the ever popular Millard Fillmore as its standard-bearer, ...
These days calling someone a “know-nothing” could mean one of two things. If you’re a student of history, you might be comparing that person to a member of the Know Nothing party of the 1850s, a ...
Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since ...
It is difficult to stay sane knowing literal elementary facts about history when dealing with America’s modern know-nothing party. The right-wing is safely ensconced in their safe space for bigotry ...
Donald Trump, the last Republican president, evidently figures immigrant-bashing will help make him the next one. But five years before he became the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln ...