Memo to conservatives who are furious as if Taylor Swift started selling puberty blockers at the sales table: Shake it off. If you insist on making all the women you love antiheroes, we may be in for a cruel summer (and an even crueler November 5th).
I’ll stop now. You don’t have to be even remotely familiar with the pop superstar’s catalog to know that she’ll be front and center, thanks to her beau Travis Kelsey, who aims to become her Super Bowl champion. there is no. Also.
In a little more than a week, Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs will play the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl III in Las Vegas. And Swift will be by his side (or rather, in her fancy booth) cheering him on.
Swift previously mocked claims on social media that she is a highly effective witch. With her one post on her Instagram, she could land a kill shot on MAGA fantasists and, by extension, the party that harbors them.
That’s causing some conservatives to panic. A small group took Taytay’s anger to a new level. They cry that she is a psychologist and that her fabricated romance is part of President Joe Biden’s re-election plan. And she plans to make it official at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
In a nutshell: NFL fixes are in! It’s like wrestling without the fake punches, corny dialogue, and scripted moments.
In the Biden era?
Yes, Swift is a Democrat. She made that clear in the 2020 documentary Miss Americana, which praised her for “coming out” as a progressive diva after years of staying aloof from politics. She strongly endorsed Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections with mixed results (Marsha Blackburn became a Tennessee state senator despite Swift’s attacks) and endorsed Biden in 2020. I supported it.
She also successfully mobilized thousands of young people to register to vote.
Democrats are salivating over the way Swift breathed life into Biden’s comatose re-election campaign. If there’s anyone who can bring the 81-year-old back into politics, it’s Swift. We’re already seeing a flood of think pieces just calling for Swift to apply defibrillator paddles to Team Biden.
Even if it means a combination of Biden and Swift, pundits are going wild. Even if it means she praises older politicians solely on her social media accounts.
Bad blood for Trump.
Conservatives who want to make Swift their enemy are making a grave mistake.
Let’s start with Donald Trump, who will likely become the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. Real estate moguls will struggle to win over suburban women voters, but that’s generous. His rough personality, checkered history with his ex-partner, and accusations of sexual assault all but ended any hopes of drawing this demographic to the polls this November.
Alienating young, passionate Swift fans, and by extension their mothers, will complicate efforts to repair broken ties.
Swift’s squeaky clean image should be celebrated, not attacked. Conservatives take issue with sexually charged singers like Cardi “WAP” B and Miley Cyrus, ignoring how Swift is bringing much-needed sanity to the culture are doing.
She is beautiful but reserved, and her lyrics center around heartbreak and dreams of meeting the ultimate Romeo. Her sexiest songs pale in comparison to what’s available on iTunes today.
She makes Sandy from “Grease” look like a trollop.
And his romance with Kelsey, a football god who looks as American as John Wayne, is full of hand-holding and chaste kisses. Isn’t this refreshing in an era of throuple and gender fluidity?
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Another reason why conservatives should reconsider their anger at Swift? The media has already weaponized it.
The Associated Press couldn’t find time to fact-check President Biden and aborted the article. Revealing errors in psychological investigation charges.
The allegations have been amplified by right-wing politicians and media figures, including former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, political activist Laura Loomer, and One America News Network host Alison Steinberg.
Conservatives are falling into a trap, and soon the rest of the progressive landscape will be piled on top of it. Stephen Colbert and his ilk will mock conservatives from the late night stands. “Saturday Night Live” would make a completely unfunny sketch about this issue. There are probably more.
The version of this is: Already playing.
Swift previously mocked claims on social media that she is a highly effective witch. With her one post on her Instagram, she could land a kill shot on MAGA fantasists and, by extension, the party that harbors them.
The new narrative will take hold, and the Republican Party will seem boring and out of pop culture. Check it. It’s weird and even more disconnected from pop culture.
We don’t have that luxury today, when our culture influences the political landscape more than even the late Andrew Breitbart could have imagined.
Conservatives should celebrate her talent, hard work, and positive aspirational brand without unnecessarily angering her fan base or giving the liberal media a cudgel to beat us with. be. Her 2023 Eras tour gave a lifeline to a country in turmoil and a chance to celebrate the pop superstar at the height of her powers. And to her credit, she’s kept politics off stage all that time.
Yes, Swift is as overexposed as any pop star in recent memory. Sure, she’s exhausted by the media’s ability to squeeze clickbait headlines out of her NFL romance. And NFL photographers are obsessed with her reaction shots.
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Waging war with Swift rather than President Biden’s 24/7 authoritarian measures would be a tactical error.
