So what? We know the truth, and that’s good enough for us.” So speaks Addison, a young female character in former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s cartoon Learn our History series. In the series—tagline: “Take Pride in America’s Past”—a group of kids called the “TimeCycle Academy” ride their bikes back in time to learn about U.S. history. But not just any version: It’s a mythologized and religiously infused account, provided to counter the alleged “hate America” narratives of the cultural left. Thus in the sample World War II video, Adolf Hitler’s evil is unleashed across Europe, but the U.S. rallies and even the “gals,” like Rosie the Riveter, pitch in. At least in the sample video, however, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appears absent. Huckabee’s series offers another sample video about the Reagan Revolution. At its beginning, America of the late 1970s faces a “financial, international, and moral crisis”—epitomized by scenes of Washington, D.C. drowning in squalor and street crime.
What do You think about The Republican Brain (2012)?
