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nytimes.com - Trump smithsonian cold war"No one needs a graduate degree to smell the toxic culture war politics that will hopefully repel most Americans from this attack on institutions that they love. It is from a sense of tragedy, as well as survival, both honed from the real past, that genuine hope is born. Americans who will never live in a gated community have always understood this.
In America we argue about ideology, often fiercely, and against the idea that there is an official “proper” version of the American story, other than the eternal creeds of the Declaration of Independence. The current attack on the Smithsonian is nothing less than a hyper-ideological group attacking a nonideological institution for not being ideological enough by its definition.
When lies by smiling propagandists become official truths advanced by those who control government budgets, democratic culture dies. It is time, before it is too late, for Congress and the people to stand up to this attack on how we are to know and interpret our history. Defend the Smithsonian or lose it."
