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Shorter Leonard Pitts, Jr.:
His column implies that Mr. Pitts, who is a perceptive thinker of good mind and kind heart, only recently read up on the Know Nothings.
The kinship between the ante bellum Know Nothings and the current ones has been obvious since the git-go to anyone familiar with that particular early manifestation of American bigotry and xenophobia.
Heck, I’ve been saying that of wingnuttery in all its forms since this blog was three months old.