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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 21:54:51 -0700
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In article <u75l2kdc4em0uog6d4blu6trm746gdhjbk@4ax.com>,
 The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:46:09 -0400, William Hyde
> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Paul S Person wrote:
> >.
> >I don't think "Tory" will work in the US.  Too much 1776 and all that.
> >
> >But "Know Nothing" is up for grabs.
> 
> For which party? You could make a case for either...

Since they actually called themselves the Native American Party* and 
then the American Party (their opponents called them the Know Nothings), 
it obviously applies to the MAGA republicans. Besides, they were an 
anti-immigrant party.

*not American Indian, instead people whose great-grandparents were 
around for the American Revolution.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com