If the last year has taught us anything it’s that, for every story, no matter how seemingly esoteric, there is always a way to make it about Taylor Swift. Doubly so, it seems, when it comes to politics.
The Swift-political-industrial-complex has, in recent months, gone into overdrive. Earlier this year, the 34-year-old was accused by Trump supporters of being a Pentagon psy-op asset of the US government, over the summer, she hit headlines after her best friend Brittany Mahomes liked, and then unliked, an Instagram post by Donald Trump (she too, then, must surely be a supporter, and by extension a white supremacist, went the argument). And when she made her much-anticipated endorsement of Kamala Harris last month, Vote.org recorded more than 400,000 people visit its voter registration site via her Instagram story.
