Per Guardian:
The man who launched his first bid for the presidency by descending a golden escalator, who has sloshed gold paint all over the White House, not to mention the Aurelian hue he has coloured his own skin, would like us to believe that he, and he alone, is the channel through which America’s so-called “Judeo-Christian” lineage now flows, and that he, and he alone, should be credited for all its future greatness.
#history #uspol #semiquincentennial
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
‘Freedom Trucks’: a tour of Trump’s skewed tribute to American history – on 18 wheels
Ahead of the US’s 250th birthday, the president has launched six mobile museums that celebrate a white, Christian rewriting of the nation’s storyEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
Alexander Karn
in reply to Alexander Karn • • •In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.
How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.
These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.
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