Mike Gonzalez
President Donald Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back cultural ground that the Left has spent decades capturing. This new action should be far-reaching and profound and sweep away such dangerous ideas as the Latino Museum.
The executive order the president issued late last week, on March 27, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” couldn’t have been clearer regarding Trump’s intent.
“The Vice President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall work with the Congress to ensure that future appropriations to the Smithsonian Institution prohibit expenditure on exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” it said.
That is a sadly accurate description of the mission of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of the American Latino, colloquially called the Latino Museum. Approved by Congress in the monstrosity that was the $1.4 trillion 2020 omnibus bill, and still without an assigned building, the Latino Museum has already proved to be what many warned it would become: a hothouse for incubating grievances against the United States among a large group.
Defund the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum—A Woke Indoctrination Factory
Of course, the entire Smithsonian Institution needs an overhaul. Under present leadership, starting with Secretary Lonnie Bunch, it aims to, as the woke Left likes to say, “decolonize” American society.
Bunch knows how to turn on the charm, and has successfully ingratiated himself to Democrats and far too many Republicans. But he has, at times, been very candid with his intentions.
From the get-go, Bunch made sure that the Smithsonian was closely associated with the New York Times’s mendacious portrayal of American history, the 1619 Project.
“We call ourselves the Great Convener,” Bunch told Smithsonian Magazine in 2019, » Read More
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