Local Cincinnati man, Steve Gunderson was found deceased on the side of the road late Sunday night, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run automotive accident. When details about the crime began coming out on Tuesday, the twittersphere and instaverse erupted with reactions and memes. So far, police have released details that indicate that Steve Gunderson was walking through the Winston Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati when he briefly stepped off the curb to get around a homeless encampment and was fatally stuck by a pickup truck. Police indicated that the suspect they were looking for was described by witnesses on the scene as a white male in his forties who was driving erratically, appeared to be looking at his phone and had a “MAGA” bumper-sticker on the back of his black pickup truck. Police have since apprehended a suspect who matches that description and charges are expected to be forthcoming.
As an obvious metaphor for the current political and economic divide, this story has electrified social media. Prominent twitter user and Vice columnist Austin Walker received over ten thousand twitter likes for retweeting the story with an additional comment reading simply “yo.” And the current top post on the /r/politics subreddit is a jpeg of a news article with the relevant details and additional added text reading “That feel when.” Even politicians have begun to pick up on the story with California state senator Stephan Gutierrez recently tweeting out “Over the past two years, we’ve all felt like Steve Gunderson at one time or another.”
Whilst this story has mostly galvanized forces on the left, several figures on the right have attempted to disrupt the narrative of the metaphor. Over the course of six tweets, the popular alt right twitter @kevinlee argued that the real meat of the metaphor lied in the rise of homelessness in many large cities under Democratic control. Messaging on this has been inconsistent on this however as many replies by apparent @kevinlee supporters choose to focus on how Steve Gunderson was a “soy boy” who “deserved what he got.”
Steve Gunderson’s funeral is scheduled to happen in the early morning on Saturday and turnout is expected to be high. Ralph DeLuca, Steve Gunderson’s local pastor, will deliver a eulogy that is expected to focus heavily on Steve’s last two minutes of life and what they mean for this troubled nation. Steve Gunderson is survived by two children.
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