Posted on 10/01/2020 10:02:04 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
President Trump and his allies are launching a counterstrike in the war on our nations founding. Since The American Mind began nearly two years ago, we have consistently warned of the regime-level crisis caused by the corruption of the content of American education. The recent riots and the ongoing cultural revolution fomented by identity politics has helped prove our point. It is now clearer to Americans that if we do not change course, decades of anti-American propaganda and identitarian teaching in our schools will result in a fundamental overthrow of our system of government.
Just two weeks ago the Trump administration hostedto our great shockthe very first White House Conference on American History. Our surprise, to be clear, lay not in the fact that such a thing would take place during this particular presidency, but that it had hitherto in the storied chapters of our national tale remained undreamt of. Or maybe it had been thought of but quickly set aside. After all, to give an account of ones history, to evaluate it honestly and publicly, makes very clear the values and vision an administration has for the country. Its different, for instance, than intoning platitudes. Remarkingalways with a face of concernthat what the country needs now is hope and change is intellectually vacuous. So, in a different way, is facile talk of a shining city on a hill if it comes without specifics. Its praiseworthy, but not programmatic.
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