The Political Spectrum Keeps Moving Right

Text on the meme

my fellow liberal me conservative Year left center right 2008 my fellow liberal? me conservative left center right 2012 woke "progressive" (Bigot!) me conservative (LOL!) left center right 2014 woke "progressive" (Transphobe!) me conservative (LOL!) left center right 2016 Fascist! (LOL!) conservative me 2018 NAZI! WTF? me

What it means

A stick-figure timeline shows a person who once considered themself politically centered gradually being labeled farther and farther to the right as the definition of “progressive” shifts leftward. The punchline is that increasingly extreme accusations culminate in Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler being used as visual markers, mocking political polarization and the ever-moving Overton window.

Who

Donald Trump (Дональд Трамп)Adolf Hitler (Адольф Гитлер)

Objects

stick figures / человечки-палки political spectrum line / линия политического спектра speech bubbles / речевые пузыри year labels / обозначения годов left-center-right markers / отметки лево-центр-право running stick figure / бегущий человечек Donald Trump photo / фотография Дональда Трампа Adolf Hitler photo / фотография Адольфа Гитлера collage of reaction images / коллаж реакционных изображений political symbols / политические символы woke progressive label / надпись о прогрессивности red line / красная линия blue line / синяя линия