"The Left Can't Meme": How Right-Wing Groups Are Training the Next Generation of Social Media Warrio
Benny Johnson took to the stage at the convention center in Palm Beach, Florida, before an audience of cheering young Trump supporters in December to lead a session titled “How to Own the Libs.”
“I ask myself every day: How do we own the libs?” said Johnson, at the time a reporter for the right-wing Daily Caller. “How do we do it in a way that makes a difference? Because these people deserved to be wrecked.”
According to Johnson, the answer to that question is memes. These bits of humor or political propaganda—generally images overlaid with a caption designed to go viral—are best known for littering social media, but some experts think they might have helped elect Donald Trump president. Or as notorious internet troll Chuck Johnson has said, “We memed the president into existence.”
Following that unexpected meme-driven success, well-funded conservative groups are making a more organized push to train young internet-savvy right-wingers in the art of meme-making, enlisting a growing army in what they see as the coming meme war of 2020. Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group that organized the conference, is merely one of these organizations seeking to sway hearts, minds, and elections via meme trainings. And it’s clear that when it comes to political memes, the left—which has never taken them very seriously—is trailing the right badly, and falling even farther behind.
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And RWers eat, drink, and sleep politics. They actually turn out to go to stupid meme-making conventions.
I often bring it up with my friends how they need to be on social media pushing the Dem party narrative which includes memes.
Retweeting articles, retweeting breaking news, etc etc.
We're not just fighting against foreign troll/bot farms with resources. We're also fighting right wing nuts who both knowingly and unknowingly spread propaganda and can now create memes. And the quality of those right wing memes is improving.
I see about 10 brilliant anti-GOP memes every time I check Facebook, which is less often since my significant other gave up on social media before I met her.
She's wonderful btw. 
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Examples -
They can't win elections if they can't put down others. That's how they won in 2016 and if we don't stop it, it's how they will win in 2020. We have to fight back against this shit. 
If you see hate-filled memes or videos or anything else, do not hesitate to click that alert button. We can end trolling altogether if we do this. 
Remember this one. 
very effective for the left, but the right never got it.
I've heard that before Do these morons realize that some of their family members are "these people"??
Liberal bloggers and sites (including this one) spotted the early "test marketing" of the swiftboat smear from monitoring RW sites, and tried to warn the Kerry campaign. People compiled lists refute the claims, from lengthy background pieces to boiled down taking points, that Kerry's people could use, and tried desperately to get the campaign to notice.
The campaign pros on Kerry's team dismissed the amateurs. Kerry was caught flatfooted by the smears, and his surrogates continued to be caught flatfooted in interviews (e.g., "Well I don't know anything about that"-type responses instead of counterattacking with "these claims are garbage and here's why"
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