Heritage Americans don’t exist

Heritage Americans don’t exist

On Monday, the US Department of Homeland Security tweeted out a painting of a 19th-century American pioneer couple cradling a newborn baby. They’re sitting in a wagon, and beyond them you can see the vast landscape of the American West. “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage,” read the accompanying text. You could contrive many different ways to interpret this tweet, but in the context of American politics, one of them is impossible to ignore. Both …