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Taylor Swift avoided politics for a long time in her music career, but around 2018 she broke her silence.
She endorsed Democrat Phil Bredesen in his U.S. Senate race against GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn. Her support of him was ultimately unsuccessful.
After 2018, she kept growing in her political involvement. Her song “You Need To Calm Down” shows critics of the LGBTQ movement as “angry, toothless, uneducated rubes.”
She interviewed with Vogue Magazine and went more in-depth into her political stance.
“Unfortunately in the 2016 election you had a political opponent who was weaponizing the idea of the celebrity endorsement,” said Swift, referencing Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy.
“He was going around saying, ‘I’m a man of the people. I’m for you. I care about you.’ I just knew I wasn’t going to help.”
The summer before that election, all people were saying was, ‘She’s calculated. She’s manipulative. She’s not what she seems. She’s a snake. She’s a liar.’ These are the same insults people were hurling at Hillary,” she said. “Would I be an endorsement or would I be a liability? ‘Look, snakes of a feather flock together. Look, the two lying women. The two nasty women.’ Literally, millions of people were telling me to disappear. So I disappeared.”
In 2020 Swift shared her support of mail-in voting on social media.
“Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president,” the singer wrote.
“He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.”
Kid Rock called her out in 2019 on Twitter.
Kid Rock was called out in the media for being “sexist” and “crude” for his remark.
Chrissy Teigan responded to Kid Rock’s post.
Truth Tent reported:
Taylor Swift’s support of Democrats seemingly paid off with a big Netflix documentary and A-list celebrities giving her kudos on social media. Katy Perry, Blake Lively, Chrissy Teigen, Karlie Kloss, Emily Ratajkowski, Anna Faris, Kevin McHale, and many others showed support by “liking” her political posts. When Swift broke her silence on politics, it apparently did not hurt her career at all and helped put the rumors to bed that she may be a Republican.
However, right-leaning celebrities like James Woods claim to have had a much different experience. Woods made allegations that public support of conservatives led to being “blacklisted.” The Oscar-nominated actor isn’t alone. Melissa Joan Hart, Stacy Dash, Kristy Swanson, and Jon Voight have publicly supported Republicans, and actor Kelsey Grammar said being a conservative celebrity is “like having a target on your back.”
It’s always funny when they say to spread love and not hate, and yet Hollywood is one of the most hateful places in the world.
