Right-wing thought leaders and strategists have long understood that their radical revolutionary project is multigenerational. They must win the “hearts and minds” of young people in the present (and control how young people conceptualize the past) for their revolutionary project to succeed in the long term.
Under the guise of "patriotic education" and countering the supposedly pernicious influence of "DEI," the Trump administration and its allies are working to impose a thought-crime regime targeting the country's schools, including its leading universities and colleges. As part of this thought-crime regime, the Trump administration and its forces are also reshaping public memory by literally Whitewashing the country’s museums such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The ultimate goal of this campaign to control public memory is to normalize the dominance of white men over all aspects of American society.
