All your meme are belong to AOC

Memes are the new vernacular of political culture and we dismiss them at our own peril. The phenomenon was propagated by Donald Trump, often through retweets (the president's Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, is arguably a meme farm at the highest level of government). Progressives have tried to fight back with their own memes, but nothing has gained the potency of say, new vocabulary like “cuck” or Pepe the Frog, the comic book character whose misappropriation as an alt-right mascot was condemned by its creator Matt Furie and his publisher.