The subreddit r/InformedWarriorRides offers an entertaining snapshot of the modern liberal bumper-sticker scene. It’s changed a lot since 2003, when I personally had my young liberal mind blown by bangers like “Homeland Security: Fighting Terrorism Since 1492.” But these days, you don’t see as many blanket denunciations of the US military-industrial complex as you used to. Certainly missing are complaints about government surveillance or the lying mass media — those are now over at the right-wing sister sub r/InfowarriorRides.
A bumper rhyming human need with corporate greed, paired with the command to “Buy Union,” is labeled in the liberal subreddit as “old school informed.” Today’s liberal informed warriors have more au courant concerns: Black Lives Matter, Palestine, abortion, and trans rights.
But there is one issue that truly dominates: Donald Trump.
Liberals are no longer thinking globally and acting locally: they’re thinking about Trump’s tiny hands, orange hue, and felony convictions. They’re telling Trump to go to hell and take Elon Musk with him. The vibe is less peace and harmony than visceral hatred and mockery: even the beloved “COEXIST” has been sacrilegiously restylized as “EAT A DICK.” And the primary target of this aggression is the “wannabe dictator,” the “shithole president,” the “fascist POTUS,” “Putin’s bitch,” the “clown” himself: Donald J. Trump.
Trump is certainly infuriating and dangerous. But single-minded fixations can produce some blinders on key issues, including on the desperate need to craft a substantive positive political vision that can successfully defeat someone as dangerous as Trump. The most important argument against what has been called “Trump…
Auteur: Meagan Day
