Progresive Presidents
This “trust-busting” president built the Panama Canal but would be called an imperialist today.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This school of thought teaches that society’s real conflicts aren’t about money anymore — they’re about race, gender, and identity.
What is Cultural Marxism?
She vowed to move to Canada after Trump’s election — still waiting.
Who is Miley Cyrus?
This slogan started as a call for reform but evolved into an organization with its own real estate portfolio.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This term describes irrational rage at a man who lives rent-free in millions of minds.
What is Trump Derangement Syndrome
The New Deal wasn’t so new — this president’s alphabet agencies reshaped the economy for decades.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Once about breaking free from colonial powers, this idea now argues that Western culture itself needs to be “decolonized.”
What is decoloniality?
This actor lectured Americans on climate change while flying private jets to awards shows.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
This movement turned from equality to equity — changing one word and the entire meaning.
What is feminism?
This political slogan became a coping mechanism for those who couldn’t believe 2016 happened.
What is #NotMyPresident
This president’s “Great Society” expanded welfare programs and the national debt in equal measure.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This modern academic theory says racism is built into laws and institutions, not just individual prejudice.
What is Critical Race Theory?
Known for “resistance” videos filmed from his kitchen, this late-night host redefined political comedy as therapy.
Who is Stephen Colbert?
This 2020 trend encouraged people to post black squares on Instagram instead of learning history.
What is virtue signaling?
This 2016 prediction — that Trump would “never accept the results of an election” — aged poorly.
What is the Russia collusion narrative?
This 28th president claimed to “make the world safe for democracy,” while segregating the federal government.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Writers like Frantz Fanon claimed colonialism damaged both colonizer and colonized, especially through psychology and culture.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
This actress claimed she “feared for her life” after 2016, despite living in Beverly Hills.
Who is Meryl Streep?
Universities now feature these spaces for “healing” from offensive ideas.
What are safe spaces?
This talk show host cried on live TV when Hillary lost.
Who is Rachel Maddow
This administration re-branded massive spending as “investment,” turning trillion-dollar bills into acts of compassion.
Who is Joe Biden
This modern movement connects Marxist liberation themes to gender and sexuality, arguing that “heteronormativity” is a social power system.
What is Queer Theory?
This Hollywood legend once said she’d “never forgive” women for voting Republican — unity, Hollywood style.
Who is Bette Midler?
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group
What is intersectionality?
This psychological defense mechanism makes people blame every problem — from gas prices to their WiFi — on Trump.
What is projection?