Why Democrats Lost: It’s the Memes Stupid
As coastal media elites diagnose what went wrong for Democrats by analyzing self-reporting poll data of people they know little about, the rest of us already know what happened because we’ve been watching it happen for over a decade: Its the memes stupid. Remember 20 years ago when people would say things like: “I don’t know about politics”, “I don’t like politics”, “Politics is annoying”? People who never read WaPo or NYT or the Atlantic or the Economist would say those things and wouldn’t vote. Those people are gone. They can’t ignore politics now because it is non-stop shoved in their face on social media. Try to go on Facebook or Twitter, or whatever it is now, without encountering right wing memes. We all know that guy we went to high school with who shares 15 Trump memes a day. Social media is overwhelmed with right wing bots. Listen to a comedy podcast, you won’t laugh but you’ll hear endlessly about how sensitive people are. Look for a movie review and you won’t have to …



