Right-wing Facebook memes are frequently disgusting, but they change and evolve over time, and are recycled. So analysis of these memes may tell us a little about where their thinking is.
A few days ago, a Trumpian relative by marriage from Mississippi posted this:
You have been on vacation for two weeks. You come home and your basement is infested with raccoons: Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement.
You want them gone immediately so you hire a guy: A pro. You don’t care if the guy smells, you need those raccoons gone pronto and he’s the guy to do it! You don’t care if the guy swears; you don’t care if he’s an alcoholic; you don’t care how many times he’s been married; don’t care if he has plumber’s crack. You simply want those raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He’s the guy. He’s the best. Period.
That’s why Trump.
Yes he’s an ass and an egomaniac. But you don’t care. The country is a mess because politicians suck. The Republican Party is two-faced & gutless. And illegal aliens are everywhere. You want it all fixed!
You don’t care that Trump is crude. You don’t care that he insults people, that he has changed positions, has been married 3 times. This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegal aliens, becoming a nation of victims. Now every Tom, Ricardo and Hamid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised.
WE JUST WANT IT FIXED!
The” rabid, messy, mean racoons” reference, of course, is meant to refer to immigrants with the added frisson that ‘coons has long been an epithet lobbed at African-Americans. Personally, I have always thought racoons are smart, agile and resourceful, so it seems like a poor insult. But the part that has me interested is that which refers to Trump.
You don’t care if the guy smells, you need those raccoons gone pronto and he’s the guy to do it! You don’t care if the guy swears; you don’t care if he’s an alcoholic; you don’t care how many times he’s been married; don’t care if he has plumber’s crack.
Yes he’s an ass and an egomaniac. But you don’t care.
You don’t care that Trump is crude. You don’t care that he insults people, that he has changed positions, has been married 3 times…
Trump is not viewed here as a good Christian, someone evangelicals can look up to. He is not seen as a great businessman or an artful negotiator. While he is described as a pro, the occupation in question is that of an exterminator.
This is actually an old meme; it dates back to before the 2016 election. But it recognizes that Trump is not a golden-haired savior. The reason it is being recycled now, it seems to me, is defensive, to explain why MAGAts would STILL back Trump after all the negatives we have seen from him. And the reason is the same one as when he first came down the golden escalator—racism and xenophobia. They want their world fixed, back to the all white Wonderland they remember, even if it was only ever on TV, between commercials.