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Professor says Trump and MAGA followers will use ‘patriotism’ to ‘whitewash’ problematic parts of U.S. history

On July 4, 2026, Americans should be prepared for President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans to “weaponize” the country’s 250th anniversary, an Indiana University at Bloomington professor said.
Jeffrey Isaac, a political science professor (at Indiana University, Bloomington), reflected on Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence in a column Thursday published by Inside Higher Ed...
In the coming months, Isaac expressed concerns that Trump and his MAGA followers will “whitewash the ways that patriotism and even the preamble of the Declaration itself have been mobilized” to allow injustices like slavery...