[GOPJ]

They were named “Know-Nothing” because they would claim to “know nothing” about their party’s secretive activities when asked about them.

Sounds like a fit.

[ansel12]

They actually had party positions that would fit many conservatives and right wing freepers today, which might be why no one actually knows the name of the party.

The American Party or (Native American Party) was fighting against the first wave of replacement immigration and importation of leftwing voters who would corrupt the cities and city governments and bring in unionism, socialism, and Europeanism and big government ideas.