In Defense of Pretending to be a Cowboy

The #resistance is drowning in semiotics like it's Brown University in 1980.

It’s more or less my plan at BAD HISTORY to come late to every story, but this one I actually missed. Back in May, the well-regarded historian Heather Cox Richardson—she’s not only a scholar of the American past but also an important historical contextualizer in the anti-Trumpist resistance discourse—brought up the uses of the American cowboy in right-w…