One Problem With Attacking the Smithsonian? Americans Like It.

Earlier this year, I visited a “Freedom Truck,” one of the patriotic mobile museums that the Trump administration is sending around the country for the nation’s 250 birthday. There, I had a wide-ranging conversation with a visitor who complained that the U.S. education system is not teaching what she called true history. But when I mentioned the Smithsonian, her disposition changed entirely. She’d heard rumors about “a lot of liberalism going through the Smithsonian now,” she told me, but…