"2020 Meme Team, Assemble By Charlie Warzel. A long time ago, on a different internet — where Photoshopped images of 'God Emperor' Donald Trump riding atop a velociraptor were just a faint glimmer in a young meme lord’s eye — the Republicans were in trouble. Barack Obama’s 2008 win over John McCain was heralded as a digital over an analog. In 2012, Mitt Romney’s technological secret weapon to track voters in real time crashed on Election Day. A 2012 profile of Obama’s digital team in The Atlantic exclaimed that the 'nerds shook up an ossifying Democratic tech structure.' By 2014, the conventional wisdom was that progressives had lapped the Republican Party in the tech space. I heard rumors swirling that some of the Republican National Committee staff were scouring Silicon Valley churches for tech-company hoodies, looking for programmers to hire. ..."
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