Trump Goes Full Dictator & Rewrites History?

Trump is now openly using the authoritarian playbook and is now targeting the Smithsonian and the National Zoo for “anti-American ideology”. He signed an executive order that instructed JD Vance to "eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" in the Smithsonian museums and the national zoo. He also ordered the interior secretary to restore statues, memorials, and parks that were changed or removed in the past five years due to “a false revision of history” — which means they are putting confederate statues back up. The order also says that Congress should not fund Smithsonian exhibits that quote “degrade American values” and “divide Americans by race”, and then he singled out the ‘National Museum of African American History and Culture’ as being problematic. Many say it’s hard to see this as anything but an authoritarian attempt to rewrite American history. Historians say that one of the first things authoritarians do is rewrite the history of their country. This is because it helps them control thought. If people believe a certain version of the past, they’re more likely to behave the way the regime wants in the present because once objective history is compromised, the truth itself becomes relative and manipulable. Stalin would remove political rivals from photos to erase them from history. Mussolini rewrote the Italian experience in World War 1 to fuel nationalism. Putin rewrote Russian history to justify the invasion of Ukraine and Xi does the same with Tiananmen Square. In 1949, George Orwell wrote this book based on Stalin’s USSR called ”1984” and in it he writes “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” And in 1951, Hannah Arendt warned of the same saying that authoritarian movements thrive on destroying objective truth, confusing people, and manufacturing alternate historical realities. Experts say this is a very critical moment.

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[wilderac]

How is the confederacy not anti-American? They literally wanted to be an entirely different country

[jacobfox]

As a current museum studies student. I am scared. Museums are one of the last trusted institutions and Trump is attacking them directly

[Metablex]

Next thing you know, he's going to start yapping about "essential living space" to justify invading Canada

[jackwoodruff]

I’m leaving. I’m paying off my student loans, which luckily aren’t too huge, and then I’m looking for places in Canada. I can’t do this shit anymore

[dracsis]

He already tried to rewrite recent history by claiming that ukraine started the fight, but he got too much pushback so he's going softer. We need to put a stop to this shit.

[cactusking]

As someone with a passion for history, this pisses me off.

[PimentoZ]

"keep your people poor, dumb and hungry"

[josephcoulter]

Now it's the duty of all of us outside America to make sure we record accurate American history. That way no matter what damage Trump tries to do to history, it can all be undone eventually.

[darkzerosoul]

i feel sick to my stomach this is one step towards a dictatorship

[_runtybeatle_]

Ah yes get rid of “Anti-Americanism” by putting up Confederate statues 😂

[mgacy]

I used to mock liberals for calling him Fash.

I don't even know how to begin apologising to everyone I doubted.

[WmdDracula]

Bruh how do you hide the fact that there’s a shit ton of black people here without explaining slavery…

[energi]

But when the African American said this administration is racist no one wanted to listen. “Let get rid of the history of what we did to them so we can feel better about ourselves and go back to doing it again “

[walkerred]

... huh. Three months. It's been three months. At this rate, he'll beat Hitler's speedrun

[spaceengineeringempire]

The Smithsonian is funded directly by congress. To change it YOU NEED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.

[thelivingglitch]

I have no sympathy for anybody that voted for him. The flags couldn’t have been any redder.

[MKLettis]

I like how he specifically pointed out the African American History Museum as "being problematic." Gee, I wonder why??? 🤡

[TyranicZen]

How are the Americans just... taking it?

[TheaoPaoaoakazmnzN]

And the fact that people got mad and complained that we were calling him facist is depressing and funny

[perryrhodan]

Hear IT from a German, . That is how it started in the 1930 Here. One person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins.