Opinion | The fear at the heart of Trump's doomed '1776 Report'

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Opinion | Robyn Autry: The fear at the heart of Trump's doomed '1776 Report.' - NBCNewsTHINK

Trump's"1776 Report" was compiled by an 18-person commission of mostly male conservative educators , who assembled the document and released it on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In just 40 pages , the report offered a framework for a"patriotic education" to counter"false and fashionable" histories that paint the country's founders as hypocrites who espoused egalitarian principles while protecting the institution of slavery.

We may think of history as fixed and immovable, a factual documentation of our past. But history is only as accurate as the people who write it. And one of Trump's last actions in office was an attempt to rewrite American history, focusing on our founding ideologies and mythologizing a very specific version of our origin story. His push to make history great again falls apart quickly, but it says plenty about the state of modern conservative thought today.

We may think of history as fixed and immovable, a factual documentation of our past. But history is only as accurate as the people who write it.

 

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