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MAGAs, It’s You. Hi. You’re the Problem, It’s You.
In order to embrace the MAGA movement you cannot allow anyone to enjoy being alive.
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The Conservative response to Taylor Swift’s relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce reminds us what grievance culture does to those who find their home in it: they eventually become violently allergic to joy.
From the first broadcast cutaway to the superstar singer sitting in a luxury box at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the MAGA cult have been in the fevered histrionics befitting a pair of wanted serial killers, not two of the most successful professionals in their respective fields who’ve had the audacity to fall in love. (Yeah, love certainly does trigger some folks, it seems, doesn’t it?)
In the middle of the swirling storm of their complaining and breaking her albums and burning his jerseys and regurgitating nonsensical conspiracy theories, it can be tricky figuring out exactly what these people are actually objecting to:
Are they concerned that a pop star is somehow sullying the sanctity of an NFL they claim they to have already canceled after players took a knee six years ago?
