For even a couple of years earlier, it would have been inconceivable for an anchor at one of the main networks to use language entirely lifted from the most radical, revisionist figures in America. If Mount Rushmore is “stolen,” then what is the rest of the country? Before the modern era, the whole history of our species was one of occupation and conquering. One group of original peoples were replaced by another group of other peoples. And someone outside the American continent was always going to “discover” America.
