His flawless ignorance of American history - what a line

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What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
David Blight
https://newrepublic.com/article/198354/history-died-sanctioned-ignorance

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1. Lawrence cites David Blight of Yale University

I can't find a New Republic piece yet that contains the topics that he and David Blight discussed. I'd love to see this material when available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Blight

[malaise]

2. Here - MUST READ

https://newrepublic.com/article/198354/history-died-sanctioned-ignorance

The Heritage Foundation has been an incubator of much of Trumpism in style and content. Indeed, if Trumpism is a grandiose media show, Heritage and Kevin Roberts are Trump’s history department, ready and eager to tell you what to think about the nation’s past.

On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Roberts leads an organization with hundreds of employees, $100 million on hand in 2023, and support from several extraordinarily wealthy conservative foundations. For more than 50 years, Heritage’s leadership has dreamed of this moment: a presidential administration willing to destroy and then remake the nation’s “heritage” in the service of right-wing triumphalism and now, via Roberts, Christian nationalism. Roberts has a Ph.D. in American history but has come to loathe the universities that bred him. His dissertation, “Slaves and Slavery in Louisiana: The Evolution of Atlantic World Identities, 1791–1831,” is a study of kinfolk and family patterns in the lives of Black people in his home state (he grew up in Lafayette, raised by a single mother after divorce). For this work, he drew upon the revolution in late-twentieth-century scholarship on the social and cultural history of the lives of the enslaved.

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3. Many thanks!

I also found it in the archives at https://archive.ph/B5y18

I have loved The New Republic and over 50+ years been an intermittent subscriber. I should renew with their internet-only subscription.

[malaise]

4. I love their listen to features as well

This is excellent

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5. Another great line about the orange one.."For years Donald, wisdom has been chasing you

and to this day you have always been faster...
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6. Bwaaaaah😀