Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Ugly, Paranoid, Divisive Politics: The GOP Are All Know-Nothings Now

www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-paranoid-divisive-politics-gop-are-all-know-nothings-now?page=0%2C0
"The objects of demonization have changed, but today’s anti-immigration rhetoric, and its embedding in the broader rhetoric of “taking our country back,” along with various means of voter suppression to limit the influence of cultural others is virtually identical to what the Know-Nothings were up to, but bears no resemblance at all to the Republicans of that same time."

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