The right’s unhealthy obsession with Taylor Swift takes its toll critical mass In preparation for this weekend’s Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
We set aside the strategic virtue of distancing ourselves from public figures who can do it all on their own. break the internet Instead, focus on how Swift should get her revenge. By the way, if you think she doesn’t understand anything about her revenge, just ask her.reputation” or ask scooter brown or David Muller.
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Taylor commands a social media army: 280 million followers Instagram95.1 million X23.9 million tick tock80 million Facebook and 56.3 million YouTube. By comparison, Donald Trump has 23.7 million followers.grams87.4 million X24.5 million Facebook2.8 million YouTube.
The numbers say it all. There’s more. A study conducted by Morning Consult last year found that avid Swift fans skew more suburban, Democratic and, not surprisingly, female. Most of them are between 18 and 39 years old. In the post-Dobbs political landscape, it is one of these demographics that President Biden most needs to win over to win in November.
So while the obvious response to the MAGA hysteria may be to support Biden, the president’s team is supporting it. Hope It’s going to happen – it’s not Swift’s best bet.she approved Biden in 2020. The situation does not change just because there is another support.
Rather, the most effective thing Taylor Swift can do to influence the presidential election is use her celebrity, exposure, and platform to get her Swifties to register to vote.
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a recent polls After record turnout in the 2020 election, only half of 18- to 29-year-olds who voted then plan to participate in the 2024 election, according to a study conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics. It became clear that.a A public opinion poll was conducted NBC News showed that young voters are dissatisfied with Biden. USA Today/Suffolk University There was a public opinion poll Biden lost to Trump in the youth vote.
If this election turns out to be as close as polls suggest, activating Swift’s fan base could make a difference. Without openly endorsing her candidate, she could launch her own voter registration drive, sending the right-wing MAGA bloc into meltdown mode.
Imagine what would happen if Swift announced that she would hold even a small number of relatively small acoustic concerts in battleground states (Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin) where admission would be proof of voter registration. want. A voter registration booth will be set up in front of the venue. The only problem would be dealing with the crowds.
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In September, Swift’s voter registration superpower was revealed.in Instagram postShe directed her followers to the nonpartisan nonprofit website Vote.org, which reported a jump in new registrations of 35,000 people. In preparation for the 2018 midterm elections, Posts that encourage followers Voter registration is tied to 100,000 new voter registrations in the 18-29 age group. If this is the kind of engagement generated from her single post, imagine the impact of a battleground state tour to help with voter registration.
The Trump campaign’s MAGA army made a grave mistake in its open battle with Taylor Swift. It’s also entirely possible that she chooses to ignore them. To continue avoiding conflict. Elas will spend 2024 filling stadiums around the world through her tour. To keep the conspiracy theorists going.
If I were Taylor Swift, I wouldn’t immediately dignify the MAGA world with reactions and responses. Instead, I would like to develop a campaign. And when fall comes and it matters most, when MAGA moves forward and everyone forgets the craziness of the past few weeks, in some strategic states that will decide the next election, maybe, just maybe, Swift should pull her revenge.
Kurt Bardella is a contributing writer to Opinion. @KurtBedella
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