Despite the president's claims, there is no new, widespread movement to rename Thanksgiving
Old man shouts at crowd. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images “Thanksgiving” is problematic now, Donald Trump announced Tuesday night.
Here, the president was referring to the imaginary “War on Christmas,” the left’s crusade against Christianity and winter merriment, which began in 2005, intensified under Barack Obama, and only ended after Donald Trump came to power and removed Santa Claus from the CIA’s kill list. But Thanksgiving is a secular holiday. It’s the American spin on the centuries-old tradition of harvest celebrations. True, some progressives and indigenous groups have sought to challenge and complicate its underlying mythology, which occludes the brutal, hierarchical, and ultimately genocidal relationship between English settlers and this continent’s native peoples.
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