Trump's war on the Smithsonian Institution

MS Now -   A new report from the White House Domestic Policy Council has a dire warning about the Smithsonian Institution. According to the White House, the National Museum of American History has become home to “a radical, activist cohort dedicated to reframing the American story to serve its ideological ends.” Accordingly, its authors write, President Donald Trump “has a duty and obligation to seek reforms of the Smithsonian” and restore the museum to its aims of being a beacon of patriotism.

This overwrought declaration spells out just how impossible Trump’s cohort finds it to imagine a world in which thoughtful criticism of America’s past could foster love of this country. But it’s only through examination of the unvarnished truth of where we’ve come from that we can truly appreciate where we are — and develop a vision of what we want America to become.

…The council’s conclusions in the 162-page report, titled “Saving America’s Story,” are as unnerving as they are dramatic: “As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian’s flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: ‘Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.’