The project for an exhibit commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima became a new front in the culture wars. In the 1990s, historians faced fierce controversy over their interpretation of US history. She says the 1776 Report compared nineteenth-century supporters of slavery to contemporary proponents of identity politics and equated early twentieth-century progressivism with fascism. Frida Ghitis: The Trump White House made a concerted effort to rewrite history in real time. The Trump White House repeatedly made outlandish claims about its unprecedented place in history.
The recent controversies over Confederate monuments were part of a campaign to promote an alternate version of the past that whitewashed the role of slavery in the rebellion and recast Confederate traitors as American patriots. They propagated wild conspiracies about the existence of death panels and spread claims that the Affordable Care Act would provide coverage to undocumented immigrants. In the Obama era, out-of-power Republicans felt freer to criticize what the administration was doing and craft fantastical complaints about what it was not. She says the creation of conservative media and the devolution of the Republican Party's commitment to truth have led to an explosion of disinformation. The current crisis stands apart for the degree of disinformation and deliberateness with which it has been spread. She says Donald Trump's White House thrived on deceptions and distortions, reframing its own lies as alternative facts. Frida Ghitis: In the last few years, the line between fact and fiction has become increasingly blurred if not completely erased.
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