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Jared Huffman: It’s a fantasy that airbrushes out the more complicated parts of our history – slavery, the Native American genocide…

On the recordJuly 2, 2026
It’s a fantasy that airbrushes out the more complicated parts of our history – slavery, the Native American genocide, the actual secular ideals on which our government was founded. It wasn’t the opening of the clouds and some revealed covenant with God as they would have you believe.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the ideological overhaul of the semiquincentennial.

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