If you’ve scrolled through the platform X (formerly known as Twitter) at all in the past week, you’ve noticed a new face. “Disinformation researcher lady” is X’s new favorite meme and its popularity suggests a reversal of a long-standing power dynamic while also offering some real insight into the left’s weaknesses.

The meme features Oscar winner Jessica Chastain in a screen grab from the trailer of her upcoming Apple TV show The Savant. The show features Chastain as the titular savant, an undercover FBI agent who tracks “online hate groups to stop domestic extremists before they act.” The trailer shows blue-collar white guys with guns, flags, and sunglasses—so it’s safe to assume the aims being caricatured.

With her chunky plastic glasses, red lips, and pale face glowing in the light of an LED screen, disinformation researcher lady is on the lookout for “all forms of bigotry,” of course—but especially those forms committed, as she sees it, by her political adversaries. You know the type: She lives online, ready to police her Facebook friends’ “microaggressions” while keeping them up to date on her Trump-induced mental illnesses. She prides herself in seeing through the “disinformation” that other rubes lap up. Women like this are easy to find, but the one Chastain portrays just happens to do it for a living.

“I track people who are planning attacks,” Chastain explains in the trailer, “and my job is pretending to think like them.”

While the show doesn’t premiere for a few more weeks, the trope it attempts to advance already feels dated. Far from performing as the FBI’s top agent, a real-life character like this one is probably currently out of a job. Yet the institutional left spent decades pathologizing the right, viewing it as some strange—and dangerous—anomaly, like an anthropologist thrust into an inscrutable, backwards culture. The captions accompanying the meme poke fun at this instinct.

“They seem to be very interested in what people have for breakfast,” reads one caption with hundreds of thousands of views, a reference to a meme popular on the right referencing alleged research at San Quentin that is said to have demonstrated lower-IQ individuals are unable to grasp basic hypotheticals such as the possibility of not having eaten breakfast.

To the leftist committed to blank slate-ism, any notion of IQ disparities remains wholly alien. So noticing that people on the right recognize this as something scientifically uncontroversial (as it is just common sense), a disinformation researcher lady would naturally be horrified to discover people who assert the reality of IQ differences and their relationship to individual outcomes. Memes about questions like these can’t be viewed by someone like her as a simple statement of fact, —but only a dangerous exercise in extremism that must be excised.

“Strange. They keep commenting . . . about how much they love the Shire,” reads another, a reference to right-wing literary infatuation with The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It’s not that the right simply identifies with the series’ traditionalist Christian themes. No, it must be portrayed as proof positive of white racism.

Even the Department of Homeland Security joined in, poking fun at the idea of radicalized anti-ICE protesters holding wildly contradictory stances.

The overarching idea is that the left looks at posts concerning obvious realities or cheeky satire and has no basis upon which to process what they see. The layman can look at right-wing commentary like this and find it mostly self-evident; they’d maybe even agree. It doesn’t take any specialized knowledge or graduate credentials to understand the value of IQ scores or the popularity of Tolkien’s narratives. Yet the left has lost the capacity to understand those who deviate from their dogmas. It has become so blinded by its own ideological bias and closely guarded sense of self-importance that it no longer has the ability to apply principles of common sense in processing reality.

Today, this stands as one of the left’s biggest weaknesses. The other side knows exactly how the left thinks because that world view is all around them, but those on the left who specialize in studying the right have absolutely no understanding of the beliefs, goals, or motivations of the non-left. By all means, let them continue attributing every America First development to racial hatred and fascism—it only further highlights which side has lost the thread and which side has a grasp of what is truly “normal.”

Ironically, it’s now that the left has become so strange that it could be the object of a curious case study, the meme now works better in reverse and applied to them. With each quip and jab, the meme deconstructs the left’s ability to legitimize their strange theories and infatuations showing just how comically absurd the field has always been. Cultural clout has shifted hands, and it no longer lies in Ivy League extremist research centers or disinformation governance boards. We’re all now free to simply laugh at these people.