After Years of Woke Shows, MAGA Comes for the Smithsonian

Tough love, force, and deprogramming, and it won’t be pretty.

With 17 museums, a garden, the Archives of American Art, and a zoo, the Smithsonian is sprawling, eclectic, and in President Trump’s line of fire. His freshly minted executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” correctly states that there’s “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” That would be the 1619 Project and its many spinoffs.