MAGA Attacks America's Sweetheart. Why Not Football, Too?

Froma Harrop on Feb 8, 2024

For the record, Vote.org is carefully nonpartisan. The site evenly balances its colors between red and blue. And it showcases quotes from both a Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a Republican, Ronald Reagan.

Swift's young female fan base can be expected to mostly vote for Biden. But their vote will also register discontent with Donald Trump -- who brags about having ended the right to an abortion and whom many women find repellant on numerous other counts.

But voters in general are problematic for Trump. The MAGA right isn't crazy about elections either, witness its attempts to overturn the 2020 results.

Another rap against the Kelce-Swift axis is that Travis does ads promoting Pfizer's Covid vaccine. Yes, and MAGA hero quarterback Aaron Rodgers rails against Covid vaccines. Is this a free country or what?

The weirdest complaint of all is that a billionaire woman has brought new fame to a mere millionaire man, somehow upsetting the usual gender order of things. The man, according to this thinking, should have most money.

And shouldn't these traditionalists be cheering on a decidedly boy-girl couple? No gender identifications here they would object to.

Predictions that these "issues" are going to boost the audience for the Super Bowl will probably prove accurate. Curiosity will prompt this writer to forgo the Puppy Bowl in favor of an actual football game.

As for MAGA's ability to make a coherent argument that Swift is part of some psyops operation, Froma Harrop has obviously found no evidence.

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