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From: Robert Woodward
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
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 ,
The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:46:09 -0400, William Hyde
> 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.
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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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