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Flat White

The left can’t meme

4 August 2017

12:08 PM

4 August 2017

12:08 PM

Having grown up in the 1980s and 1990s I remember a time when popular culture mocked the right wing stiff.

Think of the school principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or the snobs in Caddyshack. Since the 1960s humour has been on the side of the left and liberal values.

In more recent years that has changed.

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