{"id":1525,"date":"2025-08-27T01:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:17:22","slug":"right-wingers-hope-taylor-swift-will-inspire-a-new-generation-of-trad-wives-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">Taylor Swift is engaged. MAGA hopes she inspires a marriage revival.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Charlie Riedel\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">You could say<\/span> that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce\u2019s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and counting, broke the internet.<strong> <\/strong>And right-wingers immediately started <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Taylor-swift-loml-lyrics\">talking rings and talking cradles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets sent push alerts. Celebrities and politicians sent their congratulations. \u201cTaylor Swift engaged\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trending?geo=US&amp;hl=en-US\">was the number one<\/a> trending search topic on Google, with more than two million searches by early afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"fAvkedq-1oQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conservatives being weird about Taylor Swift reveals what they think about women.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAvkedq-1oQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The news also ricocheted around right-wing corners of the internet, where leading conservatives said they hoped Swift\u2019s engagement would help achieve some of their top goals, now backed by the Trump-administration: Inspire a nationwide boost in (heterosexual) marriage and birth rates. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Shapiro, co-founder of the right-wing Daily Wire news site, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1960394807991271454\">called<\/a> Swift and Kelce\u2019s engagement \u201cunironically an excellent thing\u201d in post on X to his nearly eight million followers. \u201cI hope many other single people follow their example,\u201d he added. Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1960391321069236262\">said<\/a> he hopes Swift and Kelce \u201chave lots of kids and end up very happy!\u201d in a post to his five million followers. On his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1960398820094910465\">podcast<\/a> Tuesday, Kirk said he hoped that marriage might make Swift more conservative: \u201cTaylor Swift might go from a cat lady to a JD Vance supporter, and we should celebrate that\u2026she should have more children than she has houses.\u201d Later in the episode, he implored her to \u201creject feminism,\u201d adding, \u201csubmit to your husband Taylor, you\u2019re not in charge!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion group Students for Life, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KristanHawkins\/status\/1960393081338892666\">wrote<\/a> to her more than 92,000 X followers that she hopes Swift\u2019s engagement \u201cinspires young women to see the joy and purpose in getting married, starting a family, and committing to one person for the rest of their lives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A bit later, Hawkins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KristanHawkins\/status\/1960406728912044343\">followed up<\/a> with another take, claiming, \u201cAmerica is heading into its \u201cget married &amp; have babies\u201d era.\u201d Lila Rose, a fellow leading anti-abortion activist and founder of the group Live Action, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LilaGraceRose\/status\/1960397866444448167\">told<\/a> her more than 394,000 X followers: \u201cMarriage is the best and tons of women look up to Taylor. So happy to see her embracing it.\u201d Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/get-married-brad-wilcox?variant=43991601676322\">Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradWilcoxIFS\/status\/1960396120619934192\">said<\/a> to \u201cexpect a spike in marriage\u201d following the news.<\/p>\n<p>That MAGA would rush to claim this news as a win is not surprising when you consider how hard they have been pushing for more marriage and babies in the second Trump\u2026era (see what I did there?). The Trump administration\u2014and particularly Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk\u2014are obsessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/this-is-a-war-and-natalism-is-our-sword-and-shield-my-weekend-with-the-pronatalists\/\">boosting the declining birth rate<\/a>, as my colleague Kiera Butler has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/trump-motherhood-medal-pronatalist-nazi\/\">chronicled<\/a>. (The president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/02\/trump-ivf-executive-order-expanded-access\/\">promise<\/a> to make IVF more widely available as part of this, on the other hand, has pretty much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/trump-still-hasnt-produced-plans-to-make-ivf-more-accessible\/\">gone nowhere<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>In the Christian nationalist worldview that shapes many of these right-wing thought leaders, marriage is, of course, a necessary precursor to procreation. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/trad-wife-wives-nara-smith-estee-williams-dobbs-roe-escapism\/\">new generation of so-called trad (short for \u201ctraditional\u201d) wives are thriving online<\/a>, extolling the virtues of marriage and motherhood and calling for a return to more traditional gender roles. And federal officials have also signaled their desires to boost marriage rates: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is married with nine kids of his own, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/urban-wire\/dots-plan-distribute-funding-birth-and-marriage-rates-would-leave-communities-most-need\">signed<\/a> a memo in February recommending that his department prioritize \u201ccommunities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.\u201d Vance has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/21\/opinion\/jd-vance-pope-trump-immigration.html\">decried<\/a> the decline in marriage among young people in a May interview with the <em>New York Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>But, seriously, do the right-wingers who hope Swift will inspire a new army of trad wives know anything about the pop superstar? Even I, an avowed non-Swiftie, know <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Taylor-swift-all-too-well-lyrics\">all too well<\/a> that Swift does not aspire to the MAGA model of marriage and motherhood that they\u2019re hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>First, Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement\/\">endorsed<\/a> then-Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump in the election, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_wtAOKOW1z\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">Instagram post<\/a> featuring a photo of her with a cat\u2014an obvious dig at Vance\u2019s derision of so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/childless-cat-lady-memes-jd-vance-trump-kamala-harris\/\">childless cat ladies<\/a>.\u201d Secondly, while Swift has talked about wanting <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/26\/entertainment\/travis-kelce-revealed-marriage-hopes-before-taylor-swift-engagement\/\">marriage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/healthandbeauty\/mother-and-baby\/714697\/taylor-swift-thoughts-motherhood-having-a-baby\/\">children<\/a>, she has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/taylor-swift-shuts-interviewer-asked-wanting-kids-men-63319368\">spoken out<\/a> against the expectation for women to make those commitments once they turn 30. And perhaps most significantly, Swift has sung at length about resisting the double standards and traditional pressures women face.<\/p>\n<p>I mean\u2026have they ever listened to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h8DLofLM7No\">Lavender Haze<\/a>\u201c? <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>All they keep askin\u2019 me (all they keep askin\u2019 me)<br \/>Is if I\u2019m gonna be your bride<br \/>The only kind of girl they see (only kind of girl they see)<br \/>Is a one-night or a wife<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><em>Surreal, I\u2019m damned if I do give a damn what people say<br \/>No deal, the 1950s shit they want from me<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7QlX3yR2xs\">Bejeweled<\/a>\u201c? <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>They ask, \u201cDo you have a man?\u201d<br \/>I can still say, \u201cI don\u2019t remember\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/author\/sam-van-pykeren\/\">Sam Van Pykeren<\/a>, one of\u00a0<em>Mother Jones<\/em>\u2018 resident Swifties, pointed out, the right-wing discourse around this proves that even Swift\u2014one of the most famous and wealthiest women in the world\u2014can\u2019t escape MAGA logic: Women only achieve their full value when they\u2019re wifed up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ruth Murai, Anna Yeo, and Sam Van Pykeren contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/taylor-swift-maga-trad-wives\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift is engaged. MAGA hopes she inspires a marriage revival.Charlie Riedel\/AP Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 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