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Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook

JL;DR SUMMARY Michelle Young discusses the recent actions taken by President Donald Trump against the Smithsonian museums, drawing unsettling parallels to the tactics used by the Nazi regime in the 1930s to control cultural narratives and art. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustTrumpNazi GermanyPolitical PressureAmerican ExceptionalismCultural RevisionismModern ArtSmithsonianMuseum LeadershipArt Censorship

Places mentioned

Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL. where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"The original Munich exhibition was so popular, it went on a multi-year tour around Germany and was seen by millions of people."
Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
"curator of Hitlers grandest artistic project, the Fhrermuseum to be built in Linz, Austria."
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
"Take the example of Hans Posse, the director of the prestigious Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, who in 1937 heard Hitlers speech"

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