How Dare Anyone Question Wokeness at the Smithsonian Museums?

The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory.

They pretend Democrats are nothing like this. The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.

The same exercise happens with federally-funded messaging, from public broadcasting to national museums. When President Trump demands a review of these taxpayer-subsidized narratives, it’s considered some kind of authoritarian crusade against nonpartisan truth-telling. It doesn’t matter how much left-wing propaganda Trump voters have been forced to support. It’s automatically defined as the gold standard of information – because Trump questions it.

One hot topic this week was Trump’s crusade to impose the notion of “American exceptionalism” in taxpayer-funded museums before the nation’s 250th anniversary, and to root out divisive and partisan narratives.