First Fake News, Now Fake History: Glenn Beck Wants to Train Young People to Promote an Alternative History

 
‘If there are two characteristics that really define Trumpism, they are a total disregard for the importance of facts and a nostalgia for a mythical, vaguely defined time of American “greatness.” That makes the Trump era ripe for Glenn Beck’s ongoing project of creating and promoting his revisionist view of American history — one that valorizes straight white men as humanity’s natural leaders and grants Christian fundamentalism a centrality to American history that it did not, in reality, have.
Beck has been ramping up a program he runs with the pseudo-historian David Barton to peddle Barton’s fake history version of American history.’
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