Memes That Hate Woodrow Wilson

And for very good reason. #MemeMonday

(Note: My wife and I are in Milwaukee for a couple of days—just a little getaway for the fun of it. Thus, I may not be able to answer all comments, or all comments in a timely fashion. Talk among yourselves!)

As some of you know, I am scaling back my social media footprint—getting off of platforms that hate me, censor me, and whose employees would probably prefer that I die. (Y’know, because advocating for true human freedom is a problem for some people, apparently.)

I still have my Twitter profile, however, which I am slowly decommissioning. Yesterday, I checked in and found that Elon Musk had posted this meme:

There are a bunch of reasons to hate Wilson that much, and I wanted to see which one Musk favored. I didn’t see any comments from Musk on that, but I did discover that there are scads of wonderful Wilson-hating memes out there!

People get it—of all the damage done by all the presidents, Wilson’s damage was arguably the worst. This first meme (vulgar language warning) expresses some of those reasons:

It doesn’t mention Versailles (which helped pave the way for Hitler); the Palmer Raids (targeting communists and anarchists, especially immigrants); or attacks on the press and the jailing of thousands for opposing WWI. Wilson was a neo-fascist technocratic Progressive strongman who paved the way for FDR and all the damage he did. Anti-Wilson meme culture makes a lot of sense.

So here is a taste of that culture. By the end, you will be more cultured than when you began.