GOP extremists feel manipulated by Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC championship.
Taylor Swift’s dalliances with politics — be it her backing of a Democratic Senate candidate in 2018 or using her tour to register voters — have earned her conservative ire over the last few years.
Just last year, I wrote on the right-wing conspiracy theorists who saw in Swift’s selection as Time magazine’s Person of the Year a manifestation of psychological warfare waged by liberals to “indoctrinate” the public. And Republicans have suggested the same thing about Swift’s situation-ship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce: It’s part of a Democratic plot!! (Kelce, meanwhile, has been attacked by conservatives and anti-vaxxers for promoting Pfizer’s Covid vaccine.)
So it was almost too predictable that after the Chiefs won the AFC championship and punched their ticket to the Super Bowl on Sunday, the right-wing influencer class polished up their tinfoil hats to tell their followers that the win was all part of some liberal psy-op (a military term for psychological operations used during wartime).
