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Equally as edifying is Lincoln’s 1858 “electric cord” speech, which explicitly confronted Know-Nothing xenophobia.

His know-nothing rabble-rousing appalled progressives who otherwise admired him for his principled stands against the Vietnam War and in favor of campaign finance reform.

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As much as Forrest is a know-nothing, except when it comes to knowing what love is, he’s also a do-nothing when it comes to acknowledging systemic wrongdoing.

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In the 1850s the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party elected governors and state legislators.

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In 1856, former President Millard Fillmore, then the Know-Nothing candidate for president, won 21.6 percent of the popular vote and eight electoral votes.

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