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Amid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding. trib.al/X8QCL2X

trib.alTrump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop HistoryAmid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding.

4/7/26, 5:33 pm25 reposts47 likes

Ariana Niko

@ariananiko.bsky.social

4 July

Marking 250 years as a curated spectacle makes the debate less about history and more about narrative control. When competing groups reshape founding myths, it stops being commemoration and turns into political branding with selective memory doing the work.