Rebecca Jackson

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think one of the starkest things that I'm seeing just in the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration is this attempt to erase history.

Out the bad.

Last year, Trump issued an executive order that was titled, I think, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, and called on basically all these federally funded institutions to wipe out, to censor any kind of information that cast a negative light on America's history.

And interestingly, in Montgomery, Alabama, which was the cradle of the Confederacy, the place where there used to be more uh slave trading depots than churches.

And also the place where really the civil rights movement came out of.

The city is dealing with things extremely differently.

And it's sort of a rebuke to Washington right now.

I was there last week, and Brian Stevenson, who's the head of the Equal Justice Initiative, has basically transformed the entire downtown of the city into a museum or monument to slavery and racial terror.

And that interestingly has transformed the city economically.

It's making

Tourism boom and is allowing them to revive themselves in a kind of astonishing way.

What we're coming to is this clash.

How does America see itself?

In recent polling that we reported on this week, Democrats and Republicans, there's a huge gulf in how patriotic they feel.

And I think part of that is coming from a sense that we just see this country, its past and its future really differently.

Robert, I think there's certainly some truth to that, but I think it also discounts the fact that MAGA has become a grassroots movement across the country, right?

And school boards are in some ways sort of ground zero for that.

We've seen groups like Moms for Liberty put tons of resources and effort into electing people who do want to whitewash this kind of history to the school boards, to the county commissions.

And so I think you do see a lot of changes happening from the ground up.

And I think

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