‘Jefferson Lies’ author: ‘What you have to do is start raising doubts, impugning their character’
It’s no secret the Founding Fathers and the first American presidents are under attack in the nation they created.
Schools are being renamed. Monuments are threatened with removal. And the men who built a nation on the ideas of liberty and equality are now stigmatized as racist bigots.
But historian David Barton, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Jefferson Lies,” is pushing back against the progressive campaign to deconstruct America’s heroes by unveiling the ideological motivation behind what he says is a progressive campaign of lies and deception.
“History is key to the existence of a nation or what that nation becomes,” said Barton. “I remember back in the 1980s, ABC News said the Iron Curtain is going to come down and we’re going to see a different Europe. How did they know that? They said because we’ve been looking at the textbooks and they’ve been taking Stalin and Lenin and Marx out of the textbooks and as they do that that’s going to break up the Soviet Union. And the walls did come down.”
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