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Jan 25, 2024 · The answer might be, in a word, memes. As the 2024 campaign gets under way, many Americans have tuned out current events. A 2023 Reuters Institute study found that only forty-eight per cent of ...
- Clare Malone
Sep 29, 2022 · Donald Trump was the perfect “meme leader,” appealing to an array of shadowy, loosely organized groups with varied philosophies but shared roots in internet “imageboards” like 4chan and 8chan, along with a desire, like their adopted chief, to disrupt the established power structure. “He had already — before he ran in 2015 — become ...
- Harvardgazette
Oct 3, 2022 · Posting a meme with the Trump quote “Stand back and stand by” indicated that someone was part of the Proud Boys militia, whereas someone sharing a green Pepe the Frog meme in a post about the insurrection was possibly in the alt-right, that subfaction of extremely online far-right youths who made themselves famous in the 2016 election by “memeing the president into office.”
- Harvardgazette
Aug 4, 2024 · More recently, the assassination attempt against Mr. Trump produced a historical — and viral — image, and a flood of joking memes, though perhaps not a single definitive one.
- Joseph Bernstein
May 15, 2022 · A burgeoning online movement known as Dark MAGA is calling for former President Donald Trump to return to power and take revenge against his enemies. What began as a fringe campaign posting ...
Jun 18, 2024 · The “unified Reich” meme was created by an outside group of meme makers that The New York Times reported has collaborated with the Trump campaign. The Dilley Meme Team describes itself as “America’s greatest MAGA Members” and “Trump’s Online War Machine” with their creations sometimes shared by Trump himself.
Sep 13, 2022 · It’s a revolution!” a woman who identified herself only as Elizabeth from Knoxville, Tennessee, told a reporter outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. She had a blue Trump flag slung ...
