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do-nothingism
noun
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness
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("Do-nothingism is not an answer," he writes; "something can and should be done").
Reeling from two consecutive electoral repudiations, Republicans looked poised to spend President Obama's first term alternating between do-nothingism and delusion.
Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, an independent who is one of the most liberal members in either House, said on Tuesday that "the Republicans are the party of do-nothingism, and because of them it is very hard to move forward".
So while lukewarmers may fancy ourselves serious interlocutors for liberals, we're actually just running interference on behalf of know-nothing and do-nothingism, attacking flawed policies on behalf of a Republican Party that will never, ever advance any policies of its own.
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Of course, know-nothingism didn't begin with this election cycle's crop of yahoos.
Myself, I've got a bad dose of all-or-nothingism: if I can't do something big, I do nothing at all.
Last Tuesday, Sarah Palin, the pre-Trump embodiment of populist Know-Nothingism in the Republican Party, endorsed Trump.
And that's what we'll become if modern know-nothingism prevails.
Bloggers and readers from coast to coast debated his stand, many denouncing him for know-nothingism and ignorance.
(201 656-2240, extension 2. SETON HALL UNIVERSITY "Saint Mary's Church and the Anti-Catholic Know-Nothingism Attacks of 1854," with Augustine Curley.
Of course, no ideology has a monopoly on this kind of know-nothingism, although it seems to attack different groups at different times.
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