{"id":21026,"date":"2024-09-04T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21026"},"modified":"2024-09-04T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:23:57","slug":"the-new-know-nothings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/09\/04\/the-new-know-nothings\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Know Nothings"},"content":{"rendered":"

     The Native American Party, later just the American Party, was a nativist political party during the middle of the 19th<\/sup> Century that arose against waves of immigrants coming into America that threatened to replace (and indeed largely succeeded in replacing) the native born largely Anglo-Saxon population of the United States. \u00a0 This party became known as the Know Nothing party, and the immigrants they considered a threat to real<\/em> Americans were the Irish and the Germans.<\/p>\n

     Apparently blaming the Irish<\/a> and Germans<\/a> is back in vogue, as GOP Vice-Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance seems to have expressed<\/a> awkwardly.<\/p>\n

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JD Vance in 2021, while discussing earlier waves of immigration to the US:<\/p>\n

"You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration and that had its problems, its consequences. You had higher crime rates, you had these ethnic enclaves, you had inter-ethnic conflict in\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/SQNPwaPBLx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jacqueline Sweet (@JSweetLI) August 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n