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Today, 77 days after President Trump created the 1776 Commission, the group released a report — 41 pages, with pictures: https://bit.ly/38U12Is .
The White House says the group is "comprised of some of America’s most distinguished scholars and historians."
Reader, it isn't.
The White House says the group is "comprised of some of America’s most distinguished scholars and historians."
Reader, it isn't.
Larry Arnn chaired the 1776 Commission. He is the president of Hillsdale College and one of The Heritage Foundation's trustees.
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In 2015, he received the Bradley Prize. (Here is some background, from @WilliamCohan: https://bit.ly/3qvbgVO .)
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In 2015, he received the Bradley Prize. (Here is some background, from @WilliamCohan: https://bit.ly/3qvbgVO .)
His Hillsdale colleague, Matthew Spalding, was the Commission's executive director.
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He is the author of "We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future."
Previously, Spalding was a fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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He is the author of "We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future."
Previously, Spalding was a fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
Mike Gonzalez, a former reporter, columnist, and speechwriter for a Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, is the "E Pluribus Unum" fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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He has no degrees in history.
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He has no degrees in history.
Michael Farris, who also has no degrees in history, is the CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, a group that advocates "for religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, freedom of speech, and marriage and family." https://bit.ly/3bRZUqP
Charles Kesler, another Bradley Prize winner, is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, with expertise in "idealism and nihilism," the "conservative movement in America," and "term limitations."
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He was Michael Anton's adviser.
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He was Michael Anton's adviser.
Fmr. Rep. Bob McEwen has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Miami, but he did lobby for an historian: Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Côte d'Ivoire, who was charged with crimes against humanity.
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Gay Hart Gaines, who was the head of GOPAC, "studied interior design at the University of Minnesota."
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In 2016, Laura Ingraham presented her with the Republican Party of Palm Beach County's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. Chris Christie gave the keynote.
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In 2016, Laura Ingraham presented her with the Republican Party of Palm Beach County's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. Chris Christie gave the keynote.
Peter Kirsanow, who was a member of the National Labor Relations Board, is a Cleveland-based lawyer.
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He recently argued in a piece for the National Review that there is no systemic racism in the United States: https://bit.ly/35W4QHw .
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He recently argued in a piece for the National Review that there is no systemic racism in the United States: https://bit.ly/35W4QHw .
John Gibbs is a conspiracy theorist who President Trump recently nominated to be the next Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management.
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He is a computer scientist.
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He is a computer scientist.
Ned Ryun, whose father recently received the the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is the founder and CEO of American Majority, "the nation’s premier conservative training organization."
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He is a self-described "grassroots and conservative activism expert."
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He is a self-described "grassroots and conservative activism expert."
Bradley Prize-winner Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and conservative commentator, is a fellow at Hillsdale College and The Hoover Institution.
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Notably, he is not affiliated with Stanford University's classics or history departments — even by courtesy.
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Notably, he is not affiliated with Stanford University's classics or history departments — even by courtesy.
Tom Lindsay is a distinguished senior fellow of higher education and constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank.
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He is not an historian.
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He is not an historian.
Attorney Julie Strauss, a conservative activist, is Mark Levin's wife. https://bit.ly/2XSiBT5
Phil Bryant, who was Mississippi's 64th governor, studied criminal justice and political science.
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Previously, he was a deputy sheriff, an insurance investigator, and a state auditor.
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Previously, he was a deputy sheriff, an insurance investigator, and a state auditor.
Carol Swain, who attended President Trump's 2020 rally in Tulsa, and also backed him in 2016, retired from Vanderbilt University in 2017.
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"I will not miss what American universities have allowed themselves to become," she wrote at the time.
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"I will not miss what American universities have allowed themselves to become," she wrote at the time.
Jerry Davis has been, for 43 years, the president of College of the Ozarks, a Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri.
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"Without patriotic education, historic American values and virtues will cease to exist in America's youth," he said.
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"Without patriotic education, historic American values and virtues will cease to exist in America's youth," he said.
