It is a case study in how moral language becomes a bureaucratic weapon: “Don’t politicize,” for you. A governing board designed for political loyaltyThe Museum’s governing body is the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and it is not a detached guild of historians. The Council was established by Congress in 1980, and it became the Museum’s board of trustees when the Museum opened. When an institution organized this way later scolds a governor for political misuse of Holocaust imagery, it is not guarding history from politics. This is the language of exterminatory politics, delivered casually, in a friendly room, while holding a seat on America’s central Holocaust-remembrance governing board.