I think America is going in cycles
In this image I see a donkey fighting with an elephant over a puppet, which is a little boy with an american flag on it's chest that is hanging liply from the the wood X that the two animals are holding. I think the donkey represents the Deomcratic party and the elephant represents the Republican party. I think the puppet with the American flag represents the country or the President (The leader of the country). I think the two parties are fighting over who gets to "pull the strings" and controll the country. I think the puppet cant move without the elephant and donkey moving it, just like the nation cant move forward without the Republicans and Democrats working with each other instead of against them.
I think this image represents the political parties that are too busy fighting each because they want to deal with the issue their way that neither party is actually coming up with a resolution to anything. So instead of the parties working together to move the country forward, America simply hangs limply in the balance, being tugged from right to left, but never moving forward. This is like in Gatsby where Tom and Jay are fighting not Daisy’s love, but more for her ownership and in the end neither one really wins.