About

How Republicans Are Born is a snowclone popular on Twitter made in mockery of a tweet by conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist that imagines his daughter being denied the purchase of a guitar because she does not have the money to cover the sales tax on the object.

Origin

On June 25th, 2017, Grover Norquist tweeted:^[1]

How Republicans are born…
Daughter, 8, has been savings up to buy her first Guitar.
Found it for $35. She had 35 exact.
Then…sales tax

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Immediate responses joked about how it appeared Norquist denied his daughter the guitar to teach her a lesson about the U.S. tax policies (a claim he denies) and made jibes about how some things he enjoys, such as paid roads, are paid for by taxes (examples shown below).

Other Twitter users began to turn the tweet into a snowclone, changing either the details of "how Republicans are born" or applying the tweet to other political ideologies. An hour after Norquist's tweet, @Pixelatedboat^[2] tweeted an example of the former, gaining over 660 retweets and 3,800 likes (shown below, left). Twitter @cmclymer^[3] tweeted a more serious variation, making a point about the wage gap in a tweet that gained over 1,000 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Huffington Post^[4] and Bustle.^[5]

Various Examples

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