“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was…” he wrote in a Truth Social post. We are not going to allow this to happen.”Such ambitions may sound benign, but they are deeply Orwellian. Winners write the historyAuthor George Orwell believed in objective, historical truth. Truth, Orwell recognized, was best served by free speech and dialogue. Who controls the present controls the past.”Historian Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska has written about America’s bicentennial celebrations that took place in 1976.