Demented? -— I don’t think so
No, certainly not demented.
History is the most political of subjects, the very material of political rhetoric. The Greeks and Romans invented the writing of history as we know it, and understood its uses. One of them was the making of the national myth, and the pioneer was Titus Livius.
Our academics are the opposite of Titus Livius, they are committed to the anti-national myth.
The people of Oklahoma are right to be suspicious.