know-nothing

Were his opponents know-nothing babies?

Democrats, Republicans, members of the Unionist and Know-Nothing parties.

Four years later, he ran for president with the Know-Nothing Party but lost every state except Maryland.

Know-nothing members of Congress insist that they are sick and tired of the separation of church and state mandated by the First Amendment.

It's a common tendency among the segment of the left to which West belongs, one that Kazakhstan-born Pitzer College sociology professor Azamat Junisbai attributes to ignorance and a myopic, know-nothing focus on American imperialism to the exclusion of imperialism by other nations.