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T<\/span>his past December, my 14-year-old son requested a flagpole for Christmas so he could fly the American flag for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. My profession for nearly three decades has been to teach American history. Needless to say then, that our family\u2019s June 2026 trip to Washington D.C. had the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of American History front and center on our itinerary. Successfully appealing to our sensibilities would be like \u201cshooting fish in a barrel\u201d for the museum\u2019s curators. However, upon arrival, my son and I discovered that as patriotic white Christian males we were actually the fish being shot.<\/p>\n

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In 1984, the Reagan administration published\u00a0, which famously noted: \u201cIf an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.\u201d The report tragically acknowledged that we had done this to ourselves, having squandered the gains made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. It lamented that we had been, \u201ccommitting an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Smithsonian Institution is provided with over a billion dollars of taxpayer money each year and the museum\u2019s leadership \u2026 is openly engaged in using history to tear down the republic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Now, 42 years later, along with the fireworks and picnics celebrating Independence Day, July 4th marked the publication of another crucial government report on education\u2014. It correctly raises the alarm over another red menace to the nation. Ironically, having triumphed in the Cold War we are now inexplicably facing a Marxist threat from within. Instead of educational disarmament, we are now turning our instructive guns on ourselves in an act of cultural suicide.<\/p>\n

Like public schools, the public museums\u2019 job is to create, support, and foster our (re)public. As such, as our nation celebrates its 250th birthday, one would expect its own national history museum to lead the revelry over life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Likewise, that it would foster gratitude for the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor so that we might live blessed with liberty. One would think the bravery, sacrifice, and faith of the families who tamed the land and who expanded freedom across the globe inspired by duty and calling might get a nod of appreciation. Ultimately, one would expect and hope that a spirit of gratitude for the country would be fostered at every turn and display. Alas, one expecting that of the Smithsonian will be sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n

Instead, the NMAH Interpretative Plan\u2019s prime directive is to be \u201crelevant\u201d by focusing every topic and display to the \u201ccore issues of our time.\u201d These issues being (1) \u201crace and identity\u201d; (2) \u201cgender and sexuality\u201d; (3) \u201cenvironmental change\u201d; (4) \u201cimmigration and migrations\u201d; (5) \u201ceconomic inequality\u201d; (6) \u201ctechnological change\u201d; and (7) \u201cnationalism and globalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

I do not think I need to explain that these codewords mean indoctrinating one extremist perspective; any doubters can peruse the 162-page report for the evidence. The fact is that, as the\u00a0Saving America\u2019s Story<\/em>\u00a0report notes, \u201cthe Museum purposely presents America as a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating today as an instrument of systemic racism and oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, this official indoctrination agenda makes every display repetitive and explains bizarre anomalies such as why even in the popular Entertainment Nation exhibit one cannot find memorabilia of the biggest icons of the 20th century such as John Wayne or Elvis Presley, though visitors do learn about \u201ca bisexual blues singer, a lesbian actress, a sexually-liberated film star, an LGBTQ \u2018icon,\u2019 a lesbian TV star, a gay major league baseball player, and a queer women\u2019s soccer player\u201d as well as the assertion that Mickey Mouse represents \u201cvestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Admittedly, our visit to the Smithsonian failed to turn my patriotic son into a woke Marxist advocate. Thus, some will undoubtedly conclude \u201cno harm, no foul.\u201d But this discounts the tremendous opportunity cost, as my son did not walk away from the visit inspired or informed either. Sending away patrons disgusted and discouraged is not a successful museum plan, particularly one dedicated by President Lyndon Johnson to presenting America\u2019s iconic artifacts in order \u201cto foster patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise, some will just dismiss the concern since they didn\u2019t plan to visit anyway or will just say, \u201cif you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t go.\u201d However, this ostrich approach ignores the daily line up of school buses bringing hundreds of thousands of American schoolchildren each year through the Smithsonian\u2019s doors. Likewise, it fails to recognize the enormous influence the Smithsonian Institute wields over education nationwide.<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian Institution is provided with over a billion dollars of American taxpayer money each year and the museum\u2019s leadership, as thoroughly documented in this report, is openly engaged in using history to tear down the republic. As the Saving America\u2019s Story<\/em>\u00a0report concludes,<\/p>\n

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As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian\u2019s flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: \u201cWarning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don\u2019t want you to love your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Trump administration, like Reagan\u2019s before, has done the country a tremendous service by documenting the educational catastrophe ongoing in the nation. Likewise, members of Congress such as Texas\u2019 Brandon Gill are rightly calling the museum\u2019s curators for public explanations in Congressional hearings. Needlessly, we are again a nation at risk, with the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History representing the tip of a Marxist educational spear pointed at the heart of America.<\/p>\n

Reports and questions are the first necessary steps in fixing the problem. With knowledge though must come action, so I hope this report will rally parents and taxpayers across the country to demand public educational institutions fulfill their duty so that our children\u2019s children can enjoy another 250 years of the American dream.<\/p>\n

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