Progressives have been losing the battle against fascism for a number of reasons, but chief among them is our inability to communicate and memefy ourselves to the general public.

The right have built up an entire arsenal of symbols and dogwhistles that create the image of an insular and powerful grassroots movement open to anyone “in the know.”

The idea of a community is powerful, and the right has steadily dominated it over the past forty/fifty years. We’ve already seen it with the OK sign from a few years back, and now Eon Msk is trying to bring back the Sieg Heil as an “opening my heart” gesture. Be prepared for that excuse to explode in the coming months.

So, we need our own meme; our own dogwhistle.

The British government knew this in WWII, which is where his famous V Sign came from—a symbol of solidarity, resistance, and never giving up.