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The Origins of the '1776 Report'
The Origins of Trump’s Slapdash, Last-Second ‘1776 Report’
It can be understood as the other side of the coin to Michael Anton’s angry ‘Flight 93’ argument.
by JOSHUA TAIT JANUARY 22, 2021
On Monday, a presidential commission that Donald Trump established last year to “promote patriotic education” issued its report.
On Wednesday, the commission was disbanded by Joe Biden and its report wiped from the White House website and re-hosted by the National Archives.
In the 48 hours between, the report was panned by historians and critics—very likely the only people who will take much notice of the blink-and-it’s-gone document.
Ostensibly a rejoinder to the New York Times’s 1619 Project, the 1776 Report asserts the timeless values of the American founding and the exceptional goodness of the American past. Building on Trump’s professed desire to “clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country,” the report’s authors say they believe that “a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future.”
The world will little note, nor long remember, the 1776 Report. But before it passes entirely from memory, it is worth taking a moment to examine what it is and how it came to be, not because it is intellectually serious—in fact, it is a self-plagiarized mishmash of sanitized history, high school civics, right-wing gripes, and authoritarian gestures—but because of what it reveals about the rise of a certain strain of conservative ideology: fundamentalist “West Coast Straussianism.”...
https://thebulwark.com/the-origins-of-trumps-slapdash-last-second-1776-report/
It can be understood as the other side of the coin to Michael Anton’s angry ‘Flight 93’ argument.
by JOSHUA TAIT JANUARY 22, 2021
On Monday, a presidential commission that Donald Trump established last year to “promote patriotic education” issued its report.
On Wednesday, the commission was disbanded by Joe Biden and its report wiped from the White House website and re-hosted by the National Archives.
In the 48 hours between, the report was panned by historians and critics—very likely the only people who will take much notice of the blink-and-it’s-gone document.
Ostensibly a rejoinder to the New York Times’s 1619 Project, the 1776 Report asserts the timeless values of the American founding and the exceptional goodness of the American past. Building on Trump’s professed desire to “clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country,” the report’s authors say they believe that “a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future.”
The world will little note, nor long remember, the 1776 Report. But before it passes entirely from memory, it is worth taking a moment to examine what it is and how it came to be, not because it is intellectually serious—in fact, it is a self-plagiarized mishmash of sanitized history, high school civics, right-wing gripes, and authoritarian gestures—but because of what it reveals about the rise of a certain strain of conservative ideology: fundamentalist “West Coast Straussianism.”...
https://thebulwark.com/the-origins-of-trumps-slapdash-last-second-1776-report/
The Flight 93 Election
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When I saw this report released my first thought was that this was originally intended to accompany the Capitol Coup..
1776 seems to have been used as code or a signal that everything was a go on the morning of January 6
Link to tweet
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14888805
