The disbanding of the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, and the removal of its report from the White House website by President Joe Biden, is the result of an incompatibility between the United States’ founding principles and some of the policies that the new administration is attempting to empower or instill, such as identity politics and critical race theory, according to Matthew Spalding, the commission’s executive director.
“You could abolish the commission, but you can’t erase history, you can’t get rid of these principles. That’s what we’re dedicated to,” said Spalding, who is a professor of constitutional government and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College. “And that’s what we will continue teaching and working to defend.”
