Politics today is performance, and memes are its loudest cheerleaders—spreading fast, shaping beliefs, and signaling identity. Are we debating, or just rooting for our team?

Memes can be an edgier, faster way to get a political point across than a block of text or a lengthy video. But online misfires have hurt candidates and created major controversies.

If identity politics is just a matter of “people evaluating issues through the lens of their association with a specific group,” then white men do it just as much anyone else.

The Politics of Memes: How Biden and Trump Are Fighting Each Other on the Internet WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face ...

However, Chapman said that political memes do affect voter identity. “One of the things that I imagine political memes do is help people to conceptualize what they’re doing as part of a group ...

Richard: Memes have a place in modern-day politics, whether we like it or not. We're, we're always seeing in the mainstream media, fears about voter disengagement from the younger generation.

Politics today is performance, and memes are its loudest cheerleaders—spreading fast, shaping beliefs, and signaling identity. Are we debating, or just rooting for our team?