Why do you think we're fighting so much about history right now?
I think you've seen the kind of rise of what people call identity politics and I think that has fueled a large part of what we see as this kind of attack on history and statues, that the statues represent for many the things they see as a problem with America, a problem with our history.
Trinko: You brought up the term "Power politics." What do you think the heart of these fights are? What are the values that people are fighting about, almost using history as a proxy?
You talked about how that painting was done by a liberal, or maybe liberal isn't the right word, but someone on the left who did not think highly of Washington.
As a conservative I see history as a long string of a lot of ugliness that the great things that have come from it I think are things that should be celebrated, which is kind of the point I make in my book.
They think the only way you can do that is to cover up all the old sins of the past and then just rebuild this brave new future without any reference to where we came from and how we got there.
You can pick up my book, which will, hopefully, debunk some of the attacks on our history that are coming from, I think a lot of hard-left historians.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/02/how-the-war-on-history-is-rewriting-americas-past/
I think you've seen the kind of rise of what people call identity politics and I think that has fueled a large part of what we see as this kind of attack on history and statues, that the statues represent for many the things they see as a problem with America, a problem with our history.
Trinko: You brought up the term "Power politics." What do you think the heart of these fights are? What are the values that people are fighting about, almost using history as a proxy?
You talked about how that painting was done by a liberal, or maybe liberal isn't the right word, but someone on the left who did not think highly of Washington.
As a conservative I see history as a long string of a lot of ugliness that the great things that have come from it I think are things that should be celebrated, which is kind of the point I make in my book.
They think the only way you can do that is to cover up all the old sins of the past and then just rebuild this brave new future without any reference to where we came from and how we got there.
You can pick up my book, which will, hopefully, debunk some of the attacks on our history that are coming from, I think a lot of hard-left historians.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/02/how-the-war-on-history-is-rewriting-americas-past/
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