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Liberal Agenda vs. GOP Agenda refers to a photoshop meme popular on Twitter in which users edit a blank template taken from CNN's coverage of the 2018 United States Midterm Elections and use it to illustrate humorous examples of what each party's goals will be should they win.

Origin

On November 6th, 2018, Twitter user @JordanUhl^[1] tweeted edited screenshots from CNN's coverage of the 2018 Midterm Elections. The original images showed bullet points outlining both the "Liberal Agenda" and the "GOP Agenda" should the party win (shown below).

Spread

Twitter users responded to Uhl by photoshopping humorous illustrations of the GOP vs. Liberal agenda into the template. User @ParkerMolloy tweeted an image of communist icons over a rainbow flag for "Liberal Agenda" and a picture of The Simpsons in slavery for the GOP agenda, gaining over 520 retweets and 2,700 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @robrousseau poked fun at both sides by tweeting the cast of The West Wing as the "liberal agenda" and a still from Mad Max: Fury Road as the GOP agenda, gaining over 540 retweets and 2,700 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Daily Dot^[2] and Twitter Moments.^[3]

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