When Outrage Replaces Thought
Why Meme Politics Is Worse Than You Think - Using Trump's truth social message about the death of Rob Reiner
Here’s the thing: everyone’s screaming, everyone’s offended, and everyone’s dying of moral indigestion over a meme that compares Trump to Hitler. Meanwhile, the real problem isn’t the meme, it’s that no one can think straight anymore. We’ve traded nuance for outrage, evidence for emotion, and careful analysis for the dopamine hit of viral approval. Welcome to America, 2025 edition: the country where tragedy is a punchline, politics is theater, and the loudest person wins whether they’re right or not.
Recently I had a long conversation with a thoughtful friend about the meme comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. What unfolded wasn’t about the meme itself. It revealed something deeper about how political discourse has changed in America.
