The horrifying world of Ben Garrison, Trump’s cartoon propagandist

Gather now, fellow Americans, and gaze upon the works of Ben Garrison, alt-right cartoonist, propagandist, and cognitive dissident par excellence! Journey into the mind of a die-hard Trump supporter, and despair.

Especially famous on Reddit’s satirical /r/forwardsfromgrandma, which mocks cringeworthy Facebook memes and e-mail forwards from both overly liberal and overly conservative elders, Ben Garrison’s cartoonist career is the Trump voter archetype. A middle aged voter, born in an age where the system was not particularly trustworthy, he has evolved from jaded skeptic to conspiratorial lizardman hunter to white nationalist propagandist. His journey is that of millions of people who make up the middle band of the Trumpian Republican Party.

Before we go any further, we need to dispel the likely Ben Garrison image searches which paint him as an overt anti-Semite. These acts of vandalism were intended to expose Garrison’s white supremacist leanings and discredit him; instead, they turned him into a alt-right martyr and made him go viral. Liberals, take note! If your side really is the more moral one, you goddamn better act like it.

It’s not that Garrison is particularly noteworthy: most of his cartoons seem to be shared ironically by giggling liberals, who just can’t believe what they’re reading. In that he shares similarities with The Onion’s satirical Kelly editorial cartoons — the rants of a middle aged white male upset that he is both aging and…