Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'gazpacho police' sums up this moment

Greene's blunder came at a head-spinning moment, when hyperpartisan politics and the long-running pandemic have produced a cavalcade of misinformation, disinformation, ignorance, conspiracy theories and self-defeating protests.

The fiercely anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic group evolved into the American Party, but it will be forever remembered by another name. The "Know Nothings" became a powerful political force, commanding the allegiance of more than 100 members of Congress in the 1850s, as Lorraine Boissoneault wrote in Smithsonian Magazine.