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Trump’s Smithsonian obsession driven by Christian nationalist 'historian’
Trump Is Using the State to Enforce Christian Nationalist MemoryThe Order Is the PointDonald Trump’s Smithsonian executive order is not a harmless culture-war gesture. It is a directive to use federal authority to police historical interpretation and brand museum exhibits as “inaccurate” and anti-American. That is institutional power doing what propaganda does best: trying to turn official memory into a loyalty test.The source material is clear about the mechanics. This is not a scholarly dispute about museum curation. It is a White House order demanding disclaimers that push a political line…
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