In this satirical Judge spread, Bernhard Gillam recasts America’s major political players as nervous animals crowding toward an improvised “Ark” run by the Farmers’ Alliance. The message is clear: in an age of corruption, graft, and economic upheaval, even the most powerful party figures scramble for cover. Gillam uses the familiar Noah’s Ark story to skewer the era’s political opportunism—showing lions, elephants, foxes, and donkeys all trying to dodge a storm they helped create.
It’s a razor-sharp commentary on how political coalitions behave when the public mood shifts: unity suddenly matters, principles bend, and every creature hustles for a spot on the next safe ship.
More than a century later, the scene feels familiar. The storm changes, the scramble remains.
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In this satirical Judge spread, Bernhard Gillam recasts America’s major political players as nervous animals crowding toward an improvised “Ark” run by the Farmers’ Alliance. The message is clear: in an age of corruption, graft, and economic upheaval, even the most powerful party figures scramble for cover. Gillam uses the familiar Noah’s Ark story to skewer the era’s political opportunism—showing lions, elephants, foxes, and donkeys all trying to dodge a storm they helped create.
It’s a razor-sharp commentary on how political coalitions behave when the public mood shifts: unity suddenly matters, principles bend, and every creature hustles for a spot on the next safe ship.
More than a century later, the scene feels familiar. The storm changes, the scramble remains.
100% certified organic ring-spun cotton | Grown without pesticides
