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Team Trump Spins American History
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 

Hot off the presses and tossed right into the trash can goes the White House’s “1776 Report,” which was created by Team Trump “to combat the “dispositive rebuttal of reckless ‘re-education’ attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the US is not an exceptional country but an evil one.”

The Report, which equates the progressive movement with fascism, is not worth the 41 pages that it is written on.

It “skillfully weaves together myths, distortions, deliberate silences and both blatant and subtle misreading of evidence to create a narrative and an argument that few respectable professional historians, even across a wide interpretive spectrum, would consider plausible, never mind convincing,” James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Assn. told the New York Times.

Released on Martin Luther King Day, the Report trashes the civil rights struggle for putting the country on the road to “group rights” and “identity politics.”

There is one part of the Report that resonates in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol by a Trump-loving mob.

That is delivered by America’s No. 1 president, Abraham Lincoln, who warned about mob violence during his 1838 Lyceum Address in Springfield, IL.

He said: “Whenever the vicious portion of [our] population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing-presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity, depend upon it, this government cannot last.”

Lincoln also sounded the alarm about those with great ambition and a thirst for power who would acquire it by “ doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.”

The 16th president could have been speaking about the 45th who tried to pull down American democracy by overturning the one of the freest elections in US history.

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