It’s up to Congress to save the Smithsonian from the anti-American left

That’s the content you would get if you visited the grounds connected Entertainment Nation astatine the American History Museum connected the National Mall — the Smithsonian Institution’s flagship depository that explains to betwixt 2 cardinal and 4 cardinal visitors each twelvemonth what America is each about, and why.

You won’t find immoderate imperishable grounds connected the Founding Fathers oregon the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

But you volition find a show that claims 1 of America’s astir beloved and iconic cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, was really inspired by blackface minstrelsy — an amusement inclination straight linked to the demeaning of African Americans successful our past.

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Does that mean the Smithsonian thinks Mickey is simply a racist symbol? In legislature grounds connected July 22, Museum’s Director Anthea Hartig said no, but she’s not fooling anyone.

President Donald Trump has ordered a reappraisal of the Smithsonian's content, arsenic portion of the yearlong 250th day of the United States' founding. (Getty)

The bitter information is, the woke toxin that has been destroying American acquisition has dispersed heavy into our nationalist depository civilization — corrupting adjacent the ones that astir correspond who we are to overseas visitors.

Those hearings demonstrated conscionable however acold the poison has spread, and however administrators proceed to contradict oregon screen it up.

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• In summation to smearing Mickey Mouse arsenic an artifact of the humanities denigration of Blacks, the Museums arsenic a Site for Social Action (MASS Action) Toolkit, a usher for radicalizing museums which the Smithsonian approves arsenic a notation work, cites virtues specified arsenic "politeness" and "objectivity" arsenic portion of White supremacist culture. (Director Hartig claims the depository doesn’t usage the toolkit).
• The 1619 Project proclaiming that slavery, not freedom, lies astatine the basal of our individuality arsenic a nation, has been heavy integrated into exhibits astatine the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — adjacent though the task itself has been debunked arsenic a insubstantial of humanities distortions and outright lies.

• The African American Museum besides has a lurid fascination with convulsive Marxists specified arsenic Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael, portion it was lone aft sizeable protestation and outrage that it yet conceded portion of an grounds to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
• Two nationalist monuments extracurricular Washington D.C., Monticello and Montpelier, person afloat embraced the woke agenda, and turned the homes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison into propaganda centers for leftist messaging regarding slavery successful America alternatively of celebrating the contributions of 2 of our top founders.

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This takeover by the extremist near has been going connected for years, arsenic its practitioners person crafted a presumption of past that systematically denigrates America, portion turning words similar diverseness and inclusion into guided missiles for attacking our astir important institutions.

And the blasted falls squarely connected conservatives.

The bitter information is, the woke toxin that has been destroying American acquisition has dispersed heavy into our nationalist depository civilization — corrupting adjacent the ones that astir correspond who we are to overseas visitors.

They watched arsenic the extremist near took implicit our universities and colleges, and did nothing.

They frowned a small arsenic the near took implicit K-12 education, but did nothing.

They squirmed erstwhile the near took implicit Monticello and Montpelier, but again did nothing.

Now a DSA-style docket has infected our astir important museums successful the nation’s capital.

The shame is, there’s specified a large communicative that our nationalist museums could beryllium telling.

From left, Anthea Hartig, manager of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History, Mike Gonzalez, The Heritage Foundation, and Matthew Spalding, dean of Hillsdale College's Van Andel Graduate School of Government, attest during a House proceeding titled "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past," connected Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

It’s a communicative of however our founding connected the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has been the guiding airy successful our past for 250 years. Our astir melodramatic episodes, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the gathering of the transcontinental Railroad and the emergence of American manufacture and technology, each amusement that aforesaid Founders’ tone and thrust that animates what we telephone American exceptionalism.

It’s besides a communicative of however women, African Americans, Native Americans and immigrants of each colour and inheritance person struggled but besides triumphed successful their pursuit of the American Dream. Their communicative is an inspiring saga which we proceed to spot unfold earlier america — 1 that inactive draws millions to our shores successful pursuit of the aforesaid dream.

In short, America’s communicative is 1 of the greatest, astir exciting, and astir inspiring, adventures successful each history. The extremist left, however, is determined to crook that communicative into an extended fearfulness movie. Our Smithsonian museums are lone their latest theaters for spreading their lies and distortions.

Now, finally, Texas Republican Rep. Brandon Gill and his colleagues person publically exposed the threat, with their hearings. So has the White House, with its Domestic Policy Council study detailing however the Smithsonian has been captured by a radical, activistic ideology. It’s clip for mean Americans to basal up against the extremist denigration of their state and its culture.

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Even liberals should beryllium horrified astatine what’s happened. We tin punctuation the words of an iconic wide historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who wrote much than 3 decades ago:

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"If we repudiate the rather marvelous inheritance that past bestows connected us, we invitation the fragmentation of the nationalist assemblage into … taste and linguistic apartheid."

Apartheid is precisely what the near wants, successful bid to prehend power. Now, successful our 250th anniversary, it’s clip to crook the telling of past successful our nation’s superior from condemnation to celebration.

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