Crash Course: Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away

We're a Christian nation! The Civil War wasn't about slavery! Fighting Hitler was a mistake! The lies run deep [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnKfrCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZHVmdnB6eHA2cy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWh4OXJ5djdibzVXA3NwY0IKZUXDdUdl29_faFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnKfrCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvemE2bzU0aGg1cC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWh4OXJ5djdibzUmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZUXDdUdl29_faFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away From Mike Lofgren: The flare-up of officially sanctioned historical fiction is just the most recent example of the long struggle over who gets to tell us who we are. The desire to seize history and manipulate it to flatter present-day conservatives and help them feel they are the culmination of an historical inevitability, while their opponents are doomed to defeat, is what motivates the historical polemics on the far right. 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