The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

It's the culture, stupid! Or more elegantly, as Andrew Breitbart famously said, "Politics is downstream from culture." And the progressives understand that very well, as they have taken control of most of the levers of American culture! Academia, media, entertainment, and even the national repository of our history: The Smithsonian!

Gone are the days when the Smithsonian was a place where we could celebrate American Exceptionalism, and see for ourselves the grand and glorious country that we have created. It is now a focal point for the left's vicious hatred of America, and its desire to drag us down into the muck of their American Original Sin: slavery. No matter that we fought a civil war in part to end it. No matter that our society was, until recently, pretty much color blind. Never mind that black integration into the larger American society is complete.

No...we must prostrate ourselves in submission to the insanity that our great country is irredeemable, that it is structurally racist, and it must be torn down!

Trump's Smithsonian Counter-Revolution

On March 27, President Trump issued an executive order arguing that there has been a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history” and promote a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” This “revisionist movement” casts American “founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.” A White House fact sheet calls for “revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.” Vice President JD Vance, a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, is tasked with leading the administration’s efforts.

Critics of the executive order responded quickly. They maintain the Trump Administration wants to “whitewash the past and suppress discussion of systemic racism.” The Smithsonian, the critics contend, is led by non-partisan professionals whose aim is to be truthful and inclusive and tell the whole story of America, including groups that have been neglected in the past. Professor David W. Blight of Yale, who is president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), complained that the executive order is a “laughable thing until you realize what their intent actually is and what they’re doing is trying to erode and then obliterate what we have been writing for a century.”

The purpose of the Smithsonian and other museums is to teach...not to preach a particular perspective, especially when that perspective is antithetical to everything upon which this country is based. We don't need cheerleaders for the 1619 Project and other initiatives that are designed to destroy the very concept of American Exceptionalism and replace it with a miserable devotion to guilt, reparations, and a demeaning view of our country.

But that's what we have in too many museums and cultural institutions, and President Trump is absolutely correct in his efforts to change it. We are owed a certain amount of respect for America by the people who are charged with preserving its history, and men like David Blight (of Yale!) do not deserve that responsibility.

Read the whole article...it is sobering that America Hate is so embedded, but it is tremendously gratifying that President Donald Trump is doing something about it! And I think he has chosen exactly the correct person to spearhead the effort. Vice President Vance is not a child of privilege; he understands how complex our history is. But he also appreciates America, and will bring that attitude to the Smithsonian.

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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