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Rhiannon12866

(241,061 posts) Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:38 AM Aug 8

Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history - The Last Word - MSNBC

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and Yale University professor David Blight who is calling out Donald Trump's attacks on the facts of U.S. history and the flawed scholarship of Kevin Roberts of the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, who is behind Project 2025 that is seemingly guiding many of the Trump administration's actions. - Aired on 08/07/2025.

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Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history - The Last Word - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 8 OP

treatment for alxheimers rampartd Aug 8 #1

Be sure to watch the whole interview -- the background info on Kevin Roberts and 2025 is deeply disturbing. eppur_se_muova Aug 8 #2

"...the viciousness with which they attack how we understand our past..." 2naSalit Aug 8 #3

It's ridiculous that this administration is trying to rewrite our history! Rhiannon12866 Aug 8 #4

rampartd

(2,350 posts)

1. treatment for alxheimers

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:48 AM

Aug 8

just yesterday stem cells that cure type 1 diabetes.

and without medicare how can anyone who needs it get it?

eppur_se_muova

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2. Be sure to watch the whole interview -- the background info on Kevin Roberts and 2025 is deeply disturbing.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:58 AM

Aug 8

They've been working a more extremist agenda behind the scenes for far longer than most of us realize.

Actual interview begins at 5:27.

2naSalit

(97,560 posts)

3. "...the viciousness with which they attack how we understand our past..."

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 10:48 AM

Aug 8

It's like the manipulative assholes I've encountered in my past, I wasn't allowed to know anything they didn't know or didn't want me to know. Everything I knew was wrong,according to them. This often happens when I'm around someone who figures out that I might be smarter than they are and can't handle it because I wasn't born with a penis.

This behavior is typical of those who have a need to control others, for whatever reason.

Rhiannon12866

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4. It's ridiculous that this administration is trying to rewrite our history!

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:06 AM

Aug 8

Anyone who studied history in school would be unlikely to be fooled. In 9th grade we learned all about the Civil Rights movement and in 10th grade it was a year of World History in which WWII and the horrors of Hitler were hard to forget. And for those of us who remember, it seems like TFG is determined to repeat those horrific mistakes...

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