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"My most influential cartoon got a tremendous response from people in Europe and Italy and Germany, and was translated into several languages," Garrison says. (It's the one that depicts Islam as a murderous wolf, and was timed at the height of Brexit debates.) "It asked, do we really want to have this endless Muslim immigration? Is that really good for Western civilizations' culture?"
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That's wrong, and racist, and colored in with shades of ethno-nationalism. But much like the Trump campaign that drew him to the center of the alt-right internet conversation, Garrison's distortions appeal to poor, white, disenfranchised voters like himself. Plus, Garrison and his classic editorial cartooning style—which Cernovich calls "all American"—give their ideology a "traditional," pseudo-intellectual veneer. No wonder alt-right heavyweights want to work with him: his cartoons are Pepe the Frog memes for grownups.