A running bit in the 1999 book Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News was that every political cartoon was drawn by some hack doing a variation on “[Existential Threat] is raping Lady Liberty!”
“Kelly” carries on a similar gag in his cartoons except that each one shoehorns in a weeping Statue of Liberty to make the point. It really does capture the utter lack of creativity and nuance in many prominent right-wing political cartoons, like how Michael Ramirez has basically built a career out of drawing large and/or scary things and labeling them “National Debt.”
