In 2005, the great historian David McCullough gave a speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan on the importance of teaching and learning history.  He recounted giving a seminar to history graduate students at an Ivy League college, and finding that not one of the students knew who George Marshall was.  As shocking as that is to believe, the point was that American colleges, and high and elementary schools, don’t teach history.  McCullough told the Hillsdale students, “We have to know who we were if we’re to know who we are and where we’re headed.”  “We should never look down on those of the past and say they should have known better.  What do you think they will be saying about us in the future?  They’re going to be saying we should have known better.  Why in the world did we do that?  What could we have been thinking?  Samuel Elliot Morrison said we ought to read history because it will help us to behave better.”  McCullough did not mince words, “We are raising a generation of young Americans who are by and large historically illiterate.”  He’s right.  And the fact that young people are ignorant of history is not only a shame, it’s a clear and present danger to our Republic.  I was reminded of the existential threat to our freedoms this past weekend when two separate acts of domestic terrorism occurred without so much as a yawn or a notice by the media.  In Colorado, a mob protesting the deportation of illegal aliens stormed an ICE facility, tore down the flags, wrote “Abolish ICE on one, and replaced the American flag with a flag of Mexico.  The police stood by and did nothing.  In Tacoma, Washington, a band of Antifa hooded bastards, armed with firearms, homemade bombs and Molotov cocktails, attacked an ICE detention facility.  The mob’s leader, one Willem Van Spronsen, who had a record of attacking police officers, led this attack, planning to blow up propane tanks to burn down the building, presumably with the detainees still inside.  Sadly, the people who populate the main-stream media are part of the generation of historical illiterates.  Moreover, their ignorance of history, coupled with their dual mental conditions – Trump derangement syndrome and delusions of rectitude – is a dangerous combination.  The Antifa bastards, largely a bunch of spoiled, white, extreme left-wing whackos, justify whatever they do by claiming that their actions are motivated solely by their desire to oppose fascism.  The left-wing media eats this crap up with a spoon.  No matter what Antifa does, including, breaking windows, burning cars, assaulting people with sticks, bats, and other weapons, they are immune to criticism in the media.  CNN’s Don Lemon sloughs off Antifa violence by telling us, “No organization is perfect.”  Of course, he doesn’t cut law enforcement the same slack.  Chris Cuomo, the dumbest of all the Cuomo’s, dismissed Antifa violence as violence in “a good cause.”  A good cause?  Anti-fascism right?  Wrong!  Being historically illiterate, the media apologists for Antifa either don’t know, or simply don’t care that the tactics of Antifa are fundamentally fascist.  Political extremists, all wearing common clothing, rampaging through the streets, brandishing weapons,  threatening and beating up anyone who dares hold a differing opinion, is right out of the Nazi playbook.  If they wore brown shirts instead of black hoods, they’d be a perfect match.  But when the talking heads tell the young illiterates that Antifa is a good cause, the illiterates have no way to understand they’re being lied to.  They never had a chance.  They are the victims of educational malpractice.  Loony lefty professors have filled their heads with their socialist bullcrap.  How else to explain how, at a time of unprecedented economic opportunity, with unemployment at historic lows, incomes rising and more jobs available than workers to fill them, so many young people are enamored of socialism.  There were socialists in the 1930’s, but even in the midst of the Great Depression the socialist cause never gained traction.  A call for socialism in the Land of Plenty can only be the result of educational malpractice.  But it’s worse.  Government leaders are also complicit.  Officials give aid and comfort to law breakers, while seeking to shackle law enforcement.  They order the police to allow riots in Baltimore, and to do nothing when a journalist is beaten unconscious in Portland.  The police ignoring crimes committed in open view is itself a crime.  They don’t care.  The other day, Elizabeth Warren announced she wants to allow illegal aliens to ignore our laws and to arrest the officers who enforce our laws.  So when Antifa’s Willem Van Spronsen tries to burn down a detention center, and is only stopped when he’s shot and killed, there’s no outrage.  Van Spronsen called the attack on the ICE facility in Tacoma “a proportionate action against enslavers and internment camp operators.”  He said,“Evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary.  The handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane.”  That’s a good cause, right Cuomo?  Antifa was just resisting American concentration camps to support the detainees, like World War II partisans.  No one pointed out the flaw in Van Spronsen’s mania.  We are not running concentration camps.  If students were taught history, they’d know that’s a lie which insults the memories of the millions of concentration camp victims.  And by the way,  WWII partisans didn’t try to kill concentration camp inmates before the Nazis could kill them first.  That’s crazy, and so is Antifa.  If history was taught, the young could separate the truth from the lies.   But they never learned who we were, so they can’t understand who we are.  And that’s the danger.  When leftist commentators piously denounce the latest words or acts of the Trump Administration preaching, “That’s doesn’t represent our values,” the illiterates believe it.  They just don’t know any better.  Our values derive from our history, and that piece is missing for these poor kids.  When demagogues can manufacture history for their own purposes, none of us is safe.  David McCullough had a suggestion.  If the schools won’t do it, parents must teach their kids who we are.