It remains to be seen whether there's any viability to MAGA beyond Trump.
Outside of some mild pushback on Operation Warpspeed and the H1B visa endorsement (with Vivek and to a lesser degree Elon as scapegoats but with Trump’s full support), MAGA for the most part just mindlessly cheer whatever Trump supports whether its America First or not.
It's not really clear what happens to the cult of personality when Trump goes bye bye in 3 years.
So far there is no heir.
JD Vance can be polished. But he's already compromised by his CIA backers. And he's not even respected by his base as evidenced by the recent meme faceswapping campaign mocking him.
evidenced by the recent meme faceswapping campaign mocking him.
I think being able to meme about a guy and have him laugh along with you doing it is a sign of not just viability but also potential as a candidate in the future. Its one of the things that made Obama so beloved by the Left.
The Left wants to convince everyone that this meme is some big "everyone hates Vance" movement, but its been obvious since the outset that its clearly just people having a laugh with some extreme photoshop and has little malice to it.
I mean, most of them are so warped and distorted that I don't think it even remotely resembles his actual face anymore to make any judgement calls.
Like most organic memes, somebody had an unhinged idea that was really funny, and now everyone builds on it and pushes it further until it barely is in touch with reality. And then everyone wants to be in on the fun times and so they all make one until its everywhere.
There is some amount of psychology behind humor and what people laugh at, but I think the Left has shown many times that deep dive psychoanalysis on memes is also a losing action because of how rarely its truly reflecting reality.
It remains to be seen whether there's any viability to MAGA beyond Trump.
Outside of some mild pushback on Operation Warpspeed and the H1B visa endorsement (with Vivek and to a lesser degree Elon as scapegoats but with Trump’s full support), MAGA for the most part just mindlessly cheer whatever Trump supports whether its America First or not.
It's not really clear what happens to the cult of personality when Trump goes bye bye in 3 years.
So far there is no heir.
JD Vance can be polished. But he's already compromised by his CIA backers. And he's not even respected by his base as evidenced by the recent meme faceswapping campaign mocking him.
I think being able to meme about a guy and have him laugh along with you doing it is a sign of not just viability but also potential as a candidate in the future. Its one of the things that made Obama so beloved by the Left.
The Left wants to convince everyone that this meme is some big "everyone hates Vance" movement, but its been obvious since the outset that its clearly just people having a laugh with some extreme photoshop and has little malice to it.
I don't think the recent Vance faceswapping memes mean that MAGA hates Vance.
But the content of the memes say something about his physiognomy and the fact that even his supporters don't fully respect him.
In general, Trump memes from the right are epic. They portray him as a badass, like a Chad, like a statesman, like a Caesar, like a hero.
I'm not sure what the entire deeper psychology behind the Vance memes are, but it mostly signals that he is seen even by his fans as a dumpy fat kid.
I mean, most of them are so warped and distorted that I don't think it even remotely resembles his actual face anymore to make any judgement calls.
Like most organic memes, somebody had an unhinged idea that was really funny, and now everyone builds on it and pushes it further until it barely is in touch with reality. And then everyone wants to be in on the fun times and so they all make one until its everywhere.
There is some amount of psychology behind humor and what people laugh at, but I think the Left has shown many times that deep dive psychoanalysis on memes is also a losing action because of how rarely its truly reflecting reality.