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Trump wants to seize the Smithsonian — and he has a plan
The State Wants the Archives, Then the StoryMemory Is the TargetThis is not a culture-war squabble over museum placards. It is an attempt by a sitting president to bend the nation’s cultural memory to fit his preferred political mythology. The Smithsonian is valuable precisely because it is supposed to sit outside direct government control. That independence is the obstacle Trump is trying to remove.The reported goal is plain enough: strip out material that confronts slavery, racism, and the country’s failures, then replace institutional expertise with loyalty.Power, Not ConfusionThe…
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