Homeland Security meme nudges 'Painter of Light' Thomas Kinkade into dark territory (RNS) — A Department of Homeland Security social media post leaned on the sentimentalism of the Kinkade painting.

DHS has entered the cultural battlefield—weaponizing nostalgia through a Thomas Kinkade-inspired meme campaign to emotionally condition the public toward state patriotism.
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