”America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution.” From Project 2025
In late March, reports the New Yorker, Trump issued another of his Executive Orders. In keeping with the autocracy playbook, The Executive Order was entitled “ Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It says in part:
Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame.
Therefore, it falls to VP Vance who seems to have little else to do AND who has a history of rewriting, well, history (See Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance) to begin the project.
Per the New Yorker, “And it will be the job, according to the executive order, of Vice-President J. D. Vance, who sits on the Smithsonian’s board, to make matters simple. Vance is charged with leading the effort to remove from the museum what is called, in exquisite Orwellese, “improper ideology.”
As is true of autocracies everywhere, this Administration demands a mystical view of an imagined past. . . .Its diagnosis is that there has long been among professors and curators “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” I
