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The Guardian contests the stereotype that Americans are ignorant of history but, the English paper believes, contemporary conservative movements do appropriate the past for political gain.

The Guardian contests the stereotype that Americans are ignorant of history but, the English paper believes, contemporary conservative movements do appropriate the past for political gain. “There’s a fine line between using historical references as educational tools and using them as propaganda devices. Increasingly, the faux-historical movements of modern-day conservatism are crossing that line. Their rallying cries are historical in timbre, yet scrutinise them closely and they belie a startlingly shallow, incomplete, vision of both past and present. They are, to history, what reality TV is to reality: a carefully constructed charade, an exercise in audience manipulation.”


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