By now the process is familiar. Leftists infiltrate a trusted institution. Then they subvert and repurpose it so that its new mission is to promote leftism. German communist Rudi Dutschke called the strategy the Long March Through the Institutions. Whatever falls prey is reduced to a disgusting abomination. Consider the Smithsonian.

Via Daily Wire:

The Trump administration’s Domestic Policy Council released a 162-page report concluding that the Smithsonian “fails in the basic task of illuminating our heritage” and instead promotes woke political causes. …

“Our central finding is not that the Museum has simply added overlooked stories, corrected perceived errors, or broadened its historical scope,” the report found. “Rather, it is that Museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”

This is the explicit strategy of the liberal elite types who run the Smithsonian Institution.

Anthea Hartig, the director of the National Museum of American History [which is part of the Smithsonian], has previously said that she wants to use the museum to “advance social justice” and wanted to “work to reframe the traditional, celebratory narrative of U.S. history for visitors.”

The Smithsonian offers not only hatred of America but also sexual perversion and the corruption of children:

The report highlighted past displays that included a crotch harness accompanied by a description of clothing being used as “acts of resistance as well as self-identity” for the LGBTQ movement, a chest binder that belonged to a transgender-identifying skateboarder, and a diary page from a [6-year-old] girl who wrote that she prayed “every night for my penis to grow.”

Videos of drag queens, images of naked women, and a magazine promoting “female masturbation” have also been displayed.

Critical Race Theory is served up alongside the depravity and degeneracy:

According to the report, museum staff also pushed an “anti-racist” toolkit encouraging employees to “confront whiteness”…

As for the American heritage moonbats like Hartig have been entrusted to preserve,

The report criticizes the museum’s treatment of the nation’s founders, arguing that visitors “will find no major exhibits dedicated to America’s Founding era,” George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other Founding Fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, or major moments of the American Revolution.

They did make an exhibit for the great Benjamin Franklin — so as to accuse him without basis of conducting electric shock experiments on sacred black people.

All manner of Americana is denounced from the woke viewpoint. Mickey Mouse is accused of “vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.” Wild West shows turn the “subjugation of Indigenous people into theater.”

Insults are heaped upon Christopher Columbus for extending civilization to the New World, including “murderer” and “thief.” Pilgrims are framed as “colonizers” — that is, villains. Thanksgiving is called a “National Day of Mourning.”

There is one American the Smithsonian likes: Angela Davis, who ran for office as a Communist and who made the FBI Most Wanted List for her role in a courtroom takeover that left a judge dead.

Read more at this X thread:

In accordance with @POTUS's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order, a new report exposes how the Smithsonian turned the Nat'l Museum of American History into a vehicle for Radical Left propaganda and degeneracy.

Here are some of the worst examples.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 7, 2026

Adding injury to the insults, the Smithsonian is mainly funded by money expropriated from the American taxpayers it so vehemently despises.

Yet again we see that you may as well burn something down as let liberals take it over.

On tips from patthedog and MrRightWingDave. Hat tip: Revolver News.