Over the last decade, a revisionist movement has emerged in the United States, seeking to discredit the achievements and contributions of our nation’s leaders and societal triumphs in favor of a reinterpretation of history through a cultural Marxist lens. This approach often emphasizes class struggle and societal power dynamics, downplaying individual achievements and national pride. The ideological slants that the Biden and Obama Administrations made, such as calling for statues of historical figures to be removed or creating and renaming holidays, have alienated our citizens to be embarrassed of America’s history instead of being proud of it. These corrosive ideologies have dominated the discourse of preserving American history. President Donald Trump has righted a significant wrong by addressing it with the Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History Executive Order.
The current infrastructure of American pride is severely damaged through the rewriting of past historical events and the distortion of history to fit current cultural discourse. For example, the upcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum will celebrate only female athletes, not male athletes who have exploited women’s sports through their participation throughout the country.
The EO explicitly criticizes efforts to politicize even things like national parks. The order states that at Pennsylvania’s Independence National Historical Park, orders were given to conduct training that would dismantle “Western foundations” and work in “interrogating institutional racism.” One of the worst things about the previous administrations was their concentration on dividing our nation’s people and making politics or social issues, like race and gender, a central focus of everyday life. Instead of rejecting the West, Trump’s EO wants to celebrate America’s contributions to the West and not the myth of institutionalized racism that has been shoved down our nation’s throats over the last decade.
Trump seeks to celebrate historical monuments by preserving their American spirit and removing nonsensical ideological attachments. Sites such as the Smithsonian or Independence Hall will be prioritized to celebrate national unity, showcase the richness of American culture, and display to generations of Americans and visitors that the government is proud of its storied history and all it has accomplished in the past nearly 250 years.
The EO states that it will seek to remove and abolish any attempt or current action that discredits or discounts American contributions or portrays the United States in a negative light. Through this order, any memorial, monument, or piece of American infrastructure that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior will not be used to depict America in any negative way but instead will be used to celebrate the greatness of the country that any citizen of the United States of America should be proud of.
The American landscape boasts immense beauty, rich culture, and a deep sense of patriotism. The song “God Bless America” talks about “from the mountains to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam”; every inch of our soil should be commemorated to the highest degree. Since colonial times, the United States has stood for ingenuity, culture, and sustaining a nation of people who are among the most successful, intellectual, and patriotic.
President Trump’s executive order does not just fight back against the progressive left that wants to fall and kowtow to a globalist order. Instead, the order explicitly targets the notion that America is an idea. Our country is not just an idea but a nation of people. We are a culture that has long lasted through bouts of communism, fascism, civil wars, foreign attacks, and ideological shifts that would have forced any other country to fail. When all else fails, the world can look to the United States of America as an emblem of patriotism, success, and grandeur all at once.
From dealing with our own government’s tyrants to terrorists overseas, our country’s people swiftly and accordingly elected a President who was shot, convicted, and impeached to a second term. That could only happen in a country that deserves to be celebrated, as this executive order suggests, with innovation, pride, and an outward display of America’s greatness and its people’s exceptional qualities.
President Trump’s Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History Executive Order will succeed in preserving the United States’ history and the men, women, and culture that have made our nation what it deserves to be: the greatest country ever created. This order is a crucial step in ensuring that our history is not distorted or discredited and that our nation’s pride and achievements are celebrated as they should be.
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