Op-Ed Columnist - Know-Nothing Politics - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Know-Nothing Politics - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: "What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”"