From the moment it was announced that Puerto Rican music phenomenon Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show, it was inevitable that, in a country on edge, the musical interlude at “America’s Game” would open another front in the ongoing culture war. After all, what could enrage reactionaries more than a confident, gender-bending, anti-colonial Puerto Rican performing in Spanish on the country’s most mythologized stage?
To MAGA, Bad Bunny is a kind of Mare, the evil spirit from Scandinavian folklore intent on draining the right of their energy — which means that there was plenty of material for fake outrage following the performance. But one faux-critique quickly emerged as the overwhelming MAGA favorite: The Super Bowl is American, and Americans speak English.
