Brief: Taylor Swift Goes MAGA?

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift: Nazi sympathizer, freshly-minted racist, MAGA trad wife. Or so proponents of a recent conspiracy theory would have it. For years, the most successful female recording and performing artist of her generation (and therefore of all time) has used “easter eggs” as part of her marketing. Hidden messages in music videos and lyric sheets, oblique references in social media posts, and puzzles as merchandise marketing gimmicks have all contributed to a parasocial sense of intimacy and insider knowledge for her millions of ardent fans. With the release of The Life of a Showgirl, these treats seem to have backfired on Swift. A deluge of TikToks claim dog whistles and hidden symbols reveal a far-right turn for a progressive artist that previously stood for feminism, reproductive freedom, gay and trans rights, BLM, and gun control. Maybe it’s her “cancelled” friends, the influence of Travis Kelce, or traditional, conservative “family values” finally coming home to roost as she celebrates the desire to settle down with her soon-to-be-husband, make a home, and have some kids. Julian peels apart the layers of this highly charged political conspiracy theory and looks at what it may represent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good, really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the loft, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:27.9	Thanks, Canva.
0:30.6	I'm Jake Halpern, host of Deep Cover, a show about people who lead double lives.
0:36.3	We're presenting a special series from Australia.
0:39.3	It's all about a family who was conned by a charming American.
0:43.8	When you marry some and you feel like you really know them.
0:46.5	I was just gobsmicked as to what's going on here.
0:50.4	Does the name Leslie Minookian mean anything to you?
0:53.4	Oh, you bet. Never forget her. anything to you? Oh, you bet.
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1:05.6	Taylor said is handing the conservative agenda on a silver platter to the masses.
1:09.7	It obviously is. And if you can't realize that, you're a victim of the media literacy crisis.
1:13.6	So I do feel obligated to come on here and say, um, she is MAGA.
1:17.6	Or at least MAGA adjacent.
1:19.6	Has Taylor Swift gone MAGA and betrayed her self-identified feminism and progressive allyship?
1:26.6	Is she dog whistling Nazi sympathies and a white supremacist
1:30.5	fetish? Even worse, has she entered her tradwife era? An album about like an idealized form of like
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