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One of the Smithsonian museums the White House singled out late last week for its egregious progressive narratives doesn’t even exist yet: the Latino Museum. And because it has given every indication that it will be another woke abomination, it should never come into being.

So it’s a mystery why Republicans in the appropriations committees of both houses of Congress are thwarting President Donald Trump’s requests to zero out spending on the Latino Museum and return instead to the old and less divisive idea of sharing collections across many museums, rather than having a “Latino” museum where that part of the American story is segregated off.

Trump has launched a major campaign to ensure that all the museums run by the Smithsonian Institution present America in an accurate fashion, not in the negative light in which the country has been depicted for decades, one that exaggerates all blemishes like a funhouse mirror.

That effort, which comes in the form of an administration review of the 21 museums that comprise the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex, comes not a minute too soon.

But let’s not kid ourselves. Cleaning out the museums and liberating them from the clutches of very woke curators won’t be easy.

As I explained last week, the ideological capture of the museum industry has been almost complete. Democrats dominate well over 90% of the curators, conservators, historians, and other professionals who work on museum exhibits.

Why build the Latino Museum when we know beforehand that it will go out of its way to become an incubator of grievances, to convince the growing segment of the country with Iberian ancestry that they are victims in America?

Last week, the White House posted a document that included multiple........

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