The 1776 Report

Conservative media went all agog over one of Biden's moves, to abandon Trump (the loser)'s "1776 Commission" counter to the 1619 narratives. Jason Colavito is on the job.

The 1776 report is no longer on the WH page because Trump lost. But you may read it here.

Many historians believe that Trump, who didn't #winning, got it all wrong. Sean Wilentz of Princeton, had this to say: It reduces history to hero worship. It's the flip side of those polemics, presented as history, that charge the nation was founded as a ‘slavocracy’, and that slavery and white supremacy are the essential themes of American history. Wilentz reveals hereby he is no 1619 man himself.

As I read the 1776, I see MLK on the report's second page. It was hardly an alt-right broadside. It was basic-bitch Republican hrr drr dems wur reel rayciss. Wilentz is right, on that much, to call out the humbug. I assume Colavito gets Carl Becker right, himself. I hadn't so much as heard of Becker.

As for Colavito's attacks on McCarthy... keep in mind, Colavito got blacklists of his own he'd enact: against "transphobes", "Islamophobes", "racists", the whole deplorable basket. As mentioned earlier, we all pick sides and, when we do, we lose that ethical standing.

The rest of the Colavito blogpost meanders into "SEE? SEE?!" gotcha commentary - attacking the report for promoting a diversity of authors. Whitman? Gay! "Twain" Clemens? Antiwar! Trump was of course pro-gay, and claimed to be antiwar too (tho' not as antiwar as Tucker Carlson); so all this is in keeping with Trumpism.

If the 1776 Commission didn't have Trump's name attached Colavito should... be for it, mostly. I also note that the Iranians are the one nation which Trump did nearly war with. So what's Colavito's angle - should Trump have gone through with that? should he rather have left Iran and its Islam to its pro-trans, anti-homo agenda? Or maybe that paragraph's about when the third shot of Tito's kicked in...

But hey. As I may have mentioned, Trump lost, and those with him lost too. Some of those with him deserved it; the 1776 Commission assuredly thereamong.

DONE AND DUSTED 4/27: Brion McClanahan delivers the coup-de-grace.