Episode 3: Eating Their Own

“Episode 3: Eating Their Own” from the Reagan Faulkner Show explores the phenomenon of progressive “cancel culture” turning against high-profile celebrities who were once hailed by the political left. Reagan begins by analyzing recent backlash against Taylor Swift following her new album “The Life of a Showgirl,” focusing on songs like “Wishlist” and “Father Figure.” Swift is criticized by some far-left activists for expressing desires such as wanting a traditional family and married life—wishes which have, according to the host, led to accusations of promoting “white supremacy” and “eugenics.” The episode describes how Swift’s growth and personal happiness in her relationship with Travis Kelce have been met with outrage from segments of her fanbase, particularly those invested in her previous, more melancholy music.

Reagan extends this argument by highlighting other celebrities caught in similar crossfires, including Sydney Sweeney, who was controversially labeled by some as endorsing eugenics due to a playfully worded ad campaign about “great jeans,” and musician Lizzo, who faced left-wing backlash after publicly celebrating her personal health journey and weight loss. The episode continues by discussing Jeffree Star’s experience of being “cancelled” after expressing conventional views on gender and thanking Donald Trump for supporting TikTok, which benefited his cosmetics business. These case studies serve to illustrate what the host claims is a radicalization on the far left and a tendency to “eat their own” when public figures deviate from the party line or are perceived as betraying progressive causes.

Towards the conclusion, Reagan draws from articles by Todd Gitlin and John Pavlovitz to trace the historical and ideological roots of this trend, tying it to political losses and a drive for ideological purity within leftist circles. The episode argues that this radicalism alienates moderates and pushes them toward more conservative politics, contending that American society should value growth, science, traditional families, and open discussion rather than rigid ideological conformity. Viewers are encouraged to stand up for their beliefs, resist being silenced by vocal minorities, and participate in a society that respects diverse viewpoints and personal evolution.

Transcript

Reagan Faulkner: 0:05

Hey, guys, and welcome back to the Reagan Faulkner Show. Today we're going to be looking at how the left cancels some of their very own and how Taylor Swift, leftist icon, has been dubbed a Maga propaganda spreading tradwife in recent weeks. So let's dive right into the story. Basically, what happened is on August 26th, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift got engaged and Taylor released her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, on October 3rd. And everyone was super, super excited about this brand new album. She announced it on Travis and Jason Kelsey's podcast. She had been hyping it up, talking about how it was going to be more of an upbeat, happy, romantic album compared to her last two Midnights and the Tortured Poets department, which were more, um, dark, depressing. It was about her breakup with Joe Alwyn and some other people that Relationships that have worked out, just not not happy albums at all. So this was going to be more of an album. 1980 style OG Taylor pop Girl, very similar to Red and lover and the fearless albums. If y'all are Swifties and know what I'm talking about. So once she released this, Swifties were very, very upset. Far left feminist Swifties were very, very upset at the new album and one of the main songs. They have problems with all the songs, to be honest with you, but the main problem song is Wish List. And in this song, Taylor is writing about how in love she is with Travis and she is comparing the life of some other female celebrities who just want money and yachts, and they want to be dog parents and stuff like that to her own personal wish list, which is to just have Travis and to eventually have his children live in a house with him and their children and basically have the American dream and just be a good wife and a good mother. Things that are completely normal shouldn't be radical, shouldn't be disagreeable, any of that. So the specific lyric that is causing all of this turmoil is, I just want you have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you. Referring to her future with Travis and their future potential children that they're going to have. And this lyric has gotten Taylor Swift called a racist. It is a microaggression against minority black and brown communities. She has been dubbed a white supremacist promoting eugenics. All of the things that you can think of that we've heard over the past eight, ten, 15 years about Republican ideology has been now put on to Taylor Swift because of this lyric that she just wants to live with Travis and their kids, and she wants to have a bunch of little baby Travis Kelce's running around. And I mean, this is ridiculous, y'all. I think anybody who's in love wants to have the children of their future husband. I don't think that this is a radical idea or anything like that. It's completely normal. But now, according to leftist feminists, Taylor Swift wants a racial, racially homogenous neighborhood. Um, I mean, it's just crazy. You can't you can't make this up. And I think really what she's talking about here, I, I this is a personal opinion. I haven't read anything to back this up, but she and Travis have been looking at houses. It's been in the news. There have been some stories about it, and they've been pretty large houses on very large pieces of property. So if we don't want to go the route of she wants to have a bunch of little baby Travis Kelce is running around and Travis. And she just wants her life to be surrounded by Travis and their children. I think you could also look into it that they want a lot of land, and that they want to be secluded from the public eye, from all of her popularity, that she wants a nice home, a nice piece of land where she can be herself and have some quiet and some peace to raise her children, in which case the block would quite literally be their land and their home, and it would be full of her husband, herself, and their kids, and therefore the whole block would look like Travis because they would own the block. They would own all of that land, that home, everything that you can think of, they would be privately secluded from the public eye. So I think it's really crazy to get this upset over a song where she came out and said that this whole album was about her love for Travis Kelce and how their relationship pulled her out of this depression, and how she was so heartbroken over her seven year relationship with Joe Alwyn. She never thought she'd find love again. And then her relationship with Travis was such a surprise and such a just welcome event to happen. And it really did make her happy, and it made her feel like she got her youth back. And now she wants to have his kids. And you know, it's a really beautiful thing for Taylor, but it really does feel like her followers, the devout feminist followers specifically really want her in this state of depression. They're preying on all of the sadness from these other songs. And, you know, it almost feels like they don't want her to be happy, which is really shocking. Um, Taylor Swift has worked extremely hard since she was 15 years old, and she deserves all the success that she's gotten, all the praise that she's gotten. She's great at her job, but the moment that she becomes happy, you see, a lot of these fans turn away from her and promote her sad songs and diss her relationship with Travis Trash on her relationship with Travis because he's masculine and he's a jock and he's the All-American football player and all these things that feminists don't want to see popular celebrity women have. Um, I also want to talk about how she kind of goes on to say in this song, after the lyrics we talked about, we tell the world to leave us the F alone. And they do. Which I think further backs the point that she wants more of a private life where she can live with Travis and their kids. She. I don't think she'll ever stop making music or anything like that. I think that she'll always be in the public eye, always be famous, always be somebody that little girls look up to. Um, but she also makes references to other songs in the album about Hollywood hating her stardom being difficult, being canceled for ridiculous reasons. It's almost like she knows that this album is going to be controversial because she's found happiness, because she's found this masculine man to fall in love with. And I think that she was really almost prepping for it and knew it was going to happen and is just ready to shut out the comment sections, shut out the haters, shut out the people that are trying to tell her what her life needs to look like when she's literally one of the richest, if not the richest women in the world. Now she's also being canceled for another song called Eldest Daughter, and that lyric is her saying she didn't when she said she didn't believe in marriage. That was a lie. And now a lot of people are saying, oh my gosh, Taylor, you led us astray. You led us to believe that marriage was this bad thing, that we needed to be strong, independent women, that we didn't need, a man, that we didn't need marriage. All these things, y'all people are allowed to grow. People are allowed to mature, they're allowed to change. They're allowed to change their thoughts. I mean, if she was in this relationship for seven years and got heartbroken, then it's kind of no wonder that she would say that she didn't believe in marriage. In the midst of that. That would be a heartbreaking experience. I'm sure many of y'all watching have had a similar experience, and it was heartbreaking. But she found a new relationship, overcame that emotional turmoil and moved on and found somebody that she loves and she's happy with. And she can grow, she can change. She can overcome depression. Whatever emotionally happened to Taylor is allowed to happen. People, specifically celebrities, are not in this box where they're the same person that they were from the time that they started being famous to wherever they are in their career now. Like whether you're a celebrity or a regular person, you're going to change, you're going to mature, you're going to morph into somebody different or have different values ideologies throughout your life. It's part of growing up and changing. Now, the last song that I really want to talk about, and then we'll go into some other celebrities that are currently and have been canceled by the left, um, is father figure. So realistically, Father Figure should be one of the most canceled songs, I guess you would say in the midst of this album. Um, I am surprised that it has not received the amount of hate that I think it deserves from the left. Personally, I love this song. It might be my favorite on the album, but this isn't the one that enraged the left, and that doesn't make sense to me. So in this song and we're going to go into a little bit of Taylor Swift history real quick, but in this song she's singing about Scott Borchetta, and Borchetta was actually the one who found her at 15 and signed her to Big Machine Records. And that's what really started her entire career. So she worked for Big Machine Records for a while. Um, she had a great career. Well, eventually bruschetta sold the rights to her music to Scooter Braun. Controversial music mogul. Some of y'all probably know about him. We won't get too much into that. But some of his enterprises are currently under investigation. And he was also Justin Bieber's former manager that Bieber had so much issue with in the past few years, and specifically the last few months. So in the song, Taylor is singing about a father figure, Borchetta, who coached her into the music industry and helped raise her in a life of stardom. But even though she trusted him like a father, he eventually betrayed her, as he did in real life when he sold the rights to her music to Scooter Braun. So Taylor's imagery concerning what a father is in this song, even though it's sarcastic and directed Antagonistically at Borchetta, is in direct conflict with everything that the left has been preaching for years, if not the past decade. And really, that's everything that I think you and I think about fathers that Taylor's talking about here, but not not what they've been preaching. So, alluding to bruschetta, Taylor says, I'll be your father figure. I'll drink that brown liquor. I can make deals with the devil because my dick's bigger. And then she goes on to say, I protect the family. So her portrayal, like I said, while being sarcastic, is really that of a man, of a masculine man, of a father, of a father like figure. Everything that she's proclaiming in this song. But like I said, it goes against what the left has to think about. Men has to think about the nuclear family. She is literally coming out and saying that a father figure is an individual male with biological male anatomy, the protector of the family. And then I didn't pull all these lyrics in here, but in some of the other lyrics, the breadwinner, the provider, one of them is I'll wipe your tears with my sleeve. He's the emotional protector as well as the physical protector. And I am really unclear about why the left isn't mad about this song. Literally, her saying that there's a biological difference between men and women, and that father figures are supposed to protect their daughters, supposed to protect the family from external threats. Um, but outside of that, because they don't seem to be mad about that song. Taylor's album is not controversial by any means. It shows basic normalcy, maturity, growth and love and a love for your husband. A love to have his kids, to live with him, to live with your kids, to be a mother. Everything that is normal, everything that is the foundation of faith based American society and American society as a whole. Honestly, the idea of the American dream, having a house, having a husband, having kids, having a family, just living your life and being happy. And it shouldn't be political. This shouldn't be a controversial issue. I think it's crazy that this has received so much hate. And if y'all don't know what I'm talking about or y'all haven't seen it, please, please, please, please, please go on TikTok and just look up Taylor Swift's new album, hate, or look it up on X or Instagram or anything really. And you will see TikToks and videos and tweets among just so many thousands of them, with hundreds of thousands of interactions and comments just about how Taylor Swift is no longer this pro-left feminist, how she's turned and she's going down the Republican pipeline and all of this crazy stuff just because she wants to be a mom and marry Travis Kelce. And this isn't the first time that we've seen this. So let's flash back to the summer when we had Sydney Sweeney and her great jeans. If y'all haven't heard of this one basically back, I think it was June or July. Sydney Sweeney launched an ad campaign with American Eagle. If you don't know who she is, she was, um, big, big actress. She's actually dating Scooter Braun now, that came out about 2 or 3 days ago. That's a whole nother story for another time. But she was in euphoria. She's been in a lot of other big films, big TV shows. And she dropped this ad campaign with American Eagle about having great jeans. Sydney is extremely attractive. A lot of men really think she's pretty. They really like her. So the ad campaign was her wearing these jeans and talking about just, I think she was talking about her hair and her eyes and some of that. And then at the end, you hear a cameo of a voice going, Sydney Sweeney has great jeans, talking about the denim jeans that she's wearing and promoting for American Eagle. So the left got Ahold of this one, too. This innocent ad campaign promoting American Eagle's most popular piece of merchandise. And they dubbed Sydney Sweeney a Nazi. They said that she was encouraging eugenics because she has blond hair and blue eyes. And just that she was an alt right, MAGA Republican, Nazi, eugenics loving individual. It was crazy. It was really crazy. It was all over Fox News. It was all over the headlines on my phone. It was all over everywhere about how Sydney Sweeney was a Nazi because she had great jeans for the ad campaign, and American Eagle sold so many jeans from that campaign, actually, like it was so popular. The amount of people that were mad about this had a huge voice, but they were such a minority in the grand scheme of Americans. Because I tried to buy a pair of those jeans, I couldn't get them. They were sold out. They were sold out in my size. They were sold out online, in stores everywhere. This was such a great success for American Eagle, simply because they used wordplay and they tapped into denim, which, I mean, Americans love denim. You can't tell me we don't. We love some jeans. We love some jean jackets. We love some jean dresses. Americans love denim. They really do. And it sold like crazy. It was such a popular hit. But the left couldn't take the patriotism of denim, apparently, or the play on words. They had to deem it naziism and eugenics and everything under the sun that you can think about. Now, another hot topic that's been going on, talking about the left canceling their own Lizzo. Who was? She's a singer, former body positivity body positivity champion. She was extremely obese. She ended up having some really bad health issues, chronic back pain due to her weight and had to lose the weight. So she went into lymphatic massages and dietary plans and, um, working out, I think three times a week, maybe more. Just all the things to get healthy. And the left lost it. They said that she was betraying the body positivity movement, that she had lied to everybody, that the ozempic shot came out and that she was hopping on the bandwagon of being skinny because it was popular that she let the South Park episode get to her, where they were advertising, um, body positivity messages as a prescription called Lizzo. If y'all saw that episode, they just they went crazy that she did something for herself and lost weight and then was proud of it. She came out and said she was so proud of her weight loss. She felt better. She looked better. She didn't have all these health conditions anymore, that she was proud of herself for the positive impact that she made on her life. Um, I actually saw a TikTok or an Instagram reel, and somebody argued that medications like Ozempic are genocide against the obese community, and they were arguing that ozempic and similar medications are like that of Nazism because they are genociding an entire. I guess the obese population where in reality these these medications are actually helping these people become more healthy. So now that we've looked at Lizzo and a little bit about her venture into the health space and making herself healthy and fighting some of these, um, obesity related illnesses that she had, I want to look at a couple of statistics relating to Gen Z and health. So Les Mills reports that about 36% of Gen Z work out regularly, with 50% that want to work out, um, regularly with a schedule and things like that. So 36% are doing it, 50% want to do it. And this is compared to Muscle and Bronze report that 21% of millennials are working out regularly. So that's about a 15% increase between millennials and Gen Z, with their fascination with health and fitness and regularly working out and things like that, not even counting the 50% of Gen Z that want to start a regular workout regimen. Now, McKinsey and company reports that about 56% of Gen Z rank fitness as a high priority on their spending. So fiscally, economically, Gen Z is valuing health, fitness, um, you know, longer lifespans, things like that, just through their purchases, whether this is gym memberships or, um, subscriptions to things like factor or Ag1 or any of those health related purchases in home gyms, things like that, 56% of Gen Z rank their spending, um, on health related items as extremely important. So it is trending among Gen Z to be healthy, to not be a part of the obesity epidemic, to have longer life spans. All of those things. And Lizzo is just an example of what Gen Z wants. Overall, she is just one example of an overarching trend in the newer generations that are becoming adults right now. And it shouldn't be a Partizan issue. It really shouldn't. We should all agree that being healthy and working on improving yourself should just be normal, and it should be promoted and it should be celebrated. It should not be a Partizan issue. But the left encourages obesity and they encourage self-destructive behavior. And they encourage all of these things that fundamentally we can see through these statistics that Gen Z is not okay with. It's something that they don't want to be a part of majority speaking wise. So again, Gen Z doesn't want to be in the American health care system. They don't want to be unhealthy. They don't want to have these chronic illnesses. They want to be healthy and happy and engaging with things that are positive and beneficial to their life, not engaging with things that are going to hurt them long term and hurt them short term. They just it's not something that statistically they're interested in. And speaking from personal experience, it's not something that I'm interested in. It's not something that my boyfriend is interested in. It's not something that our friends are interested in. We are very health minded in the way that we cook, the way that we eat, the activities that we do. We're not into, um, you know, this self-destructive obesity, body positivity behavior. And overall, Gen Z isn't either. Um, now, the last celebrity that I want to talk about is Jeffree Star. He is a male cosmetician. He has a company called Jeffree Star Cosmetics, and he used to be on YouTube, where he would review different makeup products and cosmetic products. And now he's strictly on TikTok. And Jeffree came out the day that Charlie Kirk passed away and said that he was trying to upload a video that was regularly scheduled and everything, and that he heard about Charlie and saw the footage and that he was so sick to his stomach and so upset that he couldn't proceed with his day because nobody should die for voicing their opinions specifically on a college campus. And as we talked about a few episodes ago, that is where discourse should be encouraged, should be projected, all of those things. And it really affected Jeffrey and a little bit more about him. Yes, he's a male Cosmetician um, I believe that he is gay. He was presumably a member of the left, is presumably a member of the left. He really hasn't spoken much about politics until this moment. And he started being canceled for mourning the death of Charlie Kirk. For mourning the murder of an individual human being just for speaking their mind, speaking their facts and speaking the truth. And he went on in this video to say that there is man and there is woman, and that is it. There's no in between. There's no gender fluid, there's no non-binary, there's no they thems. And that you are what you were born as. He was like, I am Jeffrey. I am a man, I like cosmetics, I like makeup, but I will never be a female. I am a man. I was born a man and I will stay a man. And he said that anybody who believed in they thems or believed in transitioning was part of the problem that we are facing right now. Part of the problem of the division, part of the problem of the radicalization of American politics. He got absolutely canceled over this. He lost, I think, close to 100,000 subscribers. He had comments saying that he didn't belong in MAGA and that MAGA hated him and that he was a Republican, even though he came out and said, I'm not Republican or Democrat, I'm neither. I'm Jeffrey, I'm a person with my own beliefs, and I believe in facts and I believe in science. And this isn't that. This is not facts. This is not science. And somebody should not die for voicing their opinions on a college campus. And like I said, it just exploded. Everybody. Just everybody on the left that is just went off on Jeffrey for saying this basic fact that there is man and that there is woman, and that Charlie shouldn't have gotten murdered for sharing his beliefs. And he also got canceled prior to this because he thanked Trump for bringing back TikTok, because, like I said, he left YouTube to exclusively do content on TikTok, and he thanked Trump for bringing it back so that he didn't lose tons and tons and tons of money and revenue from not having this platform for advertising and for his brand. And everybody was like, oh, you're MAGA, you're going down the conservative pipeline, all of these things. He never endorsed Trump. He never said he was a part of MAGA. He never said any of it. He just thanked Trump for helping his business stay afloat, for helping him generate revenue, for as an entrepreneur wanting to promote his brand on this specific platform that he had spent so much time and sacrificed so much to do, exclusively canceled just because he thinks Trump. Just because he speaks facts. Just because he doesn't think Charlie Kirk should die for his opinions on a college campus where we're supposed to look at different opinions and explore worldviews. Done. They're done with him. So the overarching point of all of this is that the left is determined to eat their own all the way up to Queen of the pop stars Taylor Swift, who endorsed Joe Biden with her famous Joe Biden cookies in 2020. They are done. They are determined to eat their own. And this really is not about the celebrities. It's about the rampant radicalization of their agenda. It is about the point where their agenda is so radical, so polarized, that marriage and facts and kids they are not a part of the leftist equation anymore. That is too far for them. That's too far right, that's too far down the conservative pipeline. They need you to be a strong, independent woman without a man. You don't need to have kids there. Are they thems? And you can be whatever gender you want to be and science doesn't matter. That is the agenda that they want to promote. And any celebrity that doesn't just blindly follow those optics is going to be canceled, and they're going to be ridiculed by this very far left sect of the party. And unfortunately, they're extremely loud and they make the entire left look ridiculous because not every leftist agrees with them. Not every Democrat holds these beliefs. But when we see radical feminists talking about how Taylor Swift is a Nazi because she wants her street block or whatever with her kids in Travis Kelce, it makes the entire party look insane. And they're not they're really not. They're very Moderate Democrats, very moderate leftists. But they're not the ones that are going insane on TikTok over Taylor Swift marrying a jock. And it's not new. It really isn't this rampant radicalization and canceling of different ideas. It's not new. So there was a 2006 article by Todd Gitlin titled Why the Left is So Determined to Eat Its Own. And in the article, he's really talking about how, um, this kind of started, maybe not started, but the first time we really have it historically documented is with the Bolsheviks purging out the Mensheviks during the Bolshevik Revolution. And Gitlin says, at least as often though, the sect becomes inflamed not because it has won, but because it has lost out of weakness. It imagines treason as it dwindles, it devotes more of its energies to the urge to purge. It loses patience with arguments about ideas. It is already dead, certain of how the world works and needs obedience, not disputation. It develops a taste for scurrilous charges and loyalty oaths to its own dissenters. It says not consider this point, but how dare you? Basically, what he's saying here is that progressives, even since the 1903 Menshevik Bolshevik situation where the Bolsheviks tried to purge the Mensheviks because they believed that they had a more bourgeois opinion of Marxism instead of a purist form of Marxism. Since then, and probably before, this progressive sect tries to purge anything that's not the most pure form of their agenda and of their ideology, and how it progressively gets more radical and more radical, and they get more desperate as they're losing. And we see that in America. We had the red wave in 2024, we got Trump. We got, you know, so many seats in Congress and, um, you know, House of Representatives, Senate, many states turned red. And now that they're losing, they are desperate to hold on to something. And then we see just a more and more and more polarized agenda. And in another article, while the right is devouring America, the left is eating its own by John Pavlovitz. This was from May 2025. He says our daily news feeds are littered with knee jerk liberal objections to mainstream candidates, questionable past behavior, one time verbal gaffes, or previous political positions that we've decided are certain deal breakers. We immediately disqualify potential allies in the name of our personal values or religious beliefs, allowing no gray space for compromise, no personal evolution for people, and no possibility of future alignment with them. We passionately partner in the work of our adversaries, and he ends the article saying, it's time we on the left pulled ourselves together. So based on these articles, based on everything we've looked at, the left is losing. They are losing the ideological war. They are losing the war for representation in American politics. They're losing the majority of opinions being leftists, being liberals, being Democrats. Whatever semantics you choose, they are losing and they are lashing out and they're angry and they are just trying to radicalize their agenda and fight and scrap and fight and scrap. And it's not working. And by distancing themselves from basic everyday things, from normalcy, from facts, from science, from growth, from maturity, from all of the things that they're trying to distance themselves from by canceling these celebrities, they're pushing middle of the line Americans further and further and further away from their platform. And they're pushing them to Republicans like these people may not want to be Republicans. They may have been long term Democrats, long term liberals, long term progressives. But like I said before, the more radical this gets, the more moderates are going to be like, oh, no, I don't want anything to do with that. I don't like that Taylor Swift is not a Maga propaganda spreading tradwife. Jeffree star has a right to say that murder is wrong, and Americans should be healthy. And we should wear denim like I don't want any part of whatever's going on over there. I'm gonna at least be a little bit on the Republican side, because at least they promote basic things like science, facts and health. Um, it's just really insane. Honestly, it is that we even have to have this conversation that, politically speaking, that saying that obesity causes health issues and that marriage and children are, you know, long term goals that people should have if they choose that. I can't believe that we even have to say that this is a political issue, I really can't. So Brett Cooper in a recent video, made an interesting point that the right is kind of trying to claim some of these celebrities that the left previously had a hold of, if you want to put it that way, that's kind of how she put it. And I agree that the right is trying to do that, but I don't think either political party should. And I think that's part of the issue that we're facing in our society and in America is celebrities have no business being in politics, period. They know very the majority of them know very minimal information about economics, public affairs, um, international affairs, very little information about these things that politicians spend years studying and practicing and learning and having deep, deep, deep knowledge on. So yes, everybody has their First Amendment right. And I think politicians or not, politicians, I think celebrities can say whatever they want. I think if they want to go on Twitter and talk about which candidate they like or that they're pro-life or pro-choice or whatever they want to be, I think they have every right to do that. But as Americans, we need to stop taking that as facts and as political parties. We need to stop trying to claim celebrities as poster children for a certain agenda. Like it. It comes down to the politician and to the policy. It shouldn't be. Oh, Taylor Swift says this Taylor Swift endorsed Biden. I need to go vote for Biden. Like Taylor Swift is in the white House. She's not going to be writing legislation. So no, if she's going to vote for Biden, then great. That's her choice. And she let us know that through Twitter and congratulations that that's who she chooses to vote for. That should not sway any political choices. Um, like the Harris campaign trying to bring in all these different celebrities to endorse Kamala like that is not that is not a fair strategy. And it's not smart because the American people don't know what they're voting for. They just know that their favorite singer, their favorite actor might be voting for that person. And that is in no way, shape or form how American politics needs to operate. That is uneducated, it is naive and it will lead to disaster. And the right does not need to go by that playbook. They can use modern advances like TikTok and Instagram and things that conservatives generally don't trend towards. Things that young people do trend towards, like using those mediums is a smart campaign strategy, but trying to claim celebrities is just as bad as what the left has been doing. And it's it's really it's honestly disrespectful to your voters thinking that they don't they're not smart enough to look at the policies for themselves and that they need to listen to a celebrity like that is disrespectful to your base. And that is a personal problem that I have with current American politics. We should not be using celebrities to advance an agenda or advance a candidate. The candidate and the agenda should be so intact that they can advance themselves without the help of celebrities and famous people. So really at the crux of this entire video is the fact that the left hates any ideology that conflicts with its own prefabricated agenda. It has a certain set of bullet points that mean that you are a Democrat, you are progressive, you are a leftist, and if you don't abide by bullet point A, B, and C perfectly and exactly, then you will be canceled. They will eat their own, they will cancel you. They will throw you out like yesterday's garbage, because they need that strict set of bullet points to be followed. They do not care about growth. They don't care about maturity. They don't care about science or facts. They don't care about any of it. Because that is exactly what these celebrities did. They came out and they said basic facts and how they felt about things, and that they accepted American values like marriage. I mean, not even American values, natural, natural human values of marriage, of birth, of loving the person that you're going to marry and wanting to have their kids. They've come out and said basic scientific facts and they've been canceled. The left does not want anything that conflicts with their ideology, and they don't want anything that might be backed by science or that might be backed by facts. And unfortunately, that is where we've come to. And it has culminated with Taylor Swift wanting to be loved, wanting to love, wanting to be a wife and have this nice life where she never said she wasn't going. She never said she was going to stop her career or anything like that. She just wants to marry Travis Kelce, have a couple of kids, settle down, probably go back to making music because that's what she's known for. But she she doesn't have to. She doesn't owe anybody anything. She is one of, if not the richest women in the world. Like she wants to stop making music. Then by all means, she can settle down and be a stay at home mom and nobody should judge her for that. And the Swifties can't get over the fact that she got over her depression and is happy and is making happy music and doing happy things and being happy in her life. They also can't stand to see hard work pay off. Taylor Swift has grit. She has grinded through getting the rights to her albums back. She has grinded through multiple breakups, multiple failed relationships, multiple devastating life situations. And she made it through. She found a husband. She wants to settle down and they can't be happy for her. It is ridiculous and it is so evident of their ideology and what they stand for, that it's going to turn so many voters away. It really is. But as conservatives and as Americans, we need to stand up for these values and ideals that are under attack. We need to stand up for the promotion of normal lifestyles, for the nuclear family, for marriage, for kids, for truth, for science, for growth, for maturity, for all of the things that we have talked about, we need to stand up for those things and defend those things, because that's what the majority of Americans believe. The majority of people that are talking anti Taylor, anti Lizzo, anti Jeffrey, anti Sydney Sweeney, that is a very small sect in my personal opinion, a very very loud people. But That's not by any means what the majority of America believes. The majority of America believes that you can be happy, that you can get married, that you can have kids, that you can do whatever you want to do. They believe in science. They believe in facts. They believe in growing as a human being and as conservatives, if we want to attract people to our party and if we want to just exist and be happy, quite frankly, then we just need to stand your ground on those ideas. We don't need to change anything. We need to conserve the things that we have always believed in nuclear family, hard work, morality, faith, all of those things. Because we can see over here that that is not what they believe. And they go crazy when they see it. When they see it, they say, no, I don't want anything to do with that. And as conservatives, we just need to stand ground and be like, okay, well, that's what we believe in and we're going to stand with it. And if you want to stand with us, stand with it too, then, you know, vote for our candidates. Engage with our celebrities. Um, whatever you want to do. But you don't have to be a part of all of that far left nonsense. And for young people, just remember that you can also stand up and reject this insanity. You're on college campuses, you're in the workforce, you have a platform, you have social media. So don't be afraid and don't be silenced. Just go out and just talk about what you believe in. You don't you don't have to be quiet. You don't even have to go out of your way, have a relationship, get married, have kids, believe in science. If you see an interesting statistic that you want to put on social media, put it out there. If you see a news story that you want to put on social media, put it out there. If you want to make a TikTok video talking about how ridiculous all this is, put it out there because you shouldn't have to be silenced. If you are a leader on campus, then host um, speakers that agree with what you agree with. Be respectful. Table put out whiteboards where you can talk about things going on on campus or politically. Just be involved and be active and don't be silent. Because when we're silent, these crazies over here, they look way more prevalent than they really are. And they're not. There aren't that many of them. There are more people like us than like them. They're just way louder. And if we can be loud and we feel confident enough to speak out and to step up, then we should do that and it'll make all of that noise over there way quieter. So with that, thank you so much for joining me on this week's episode of The Regan Faulkner Show. Be sure to follow us on Instagram at The Regan Faulkner Show, and on Instagram and YouTube at the Wilmington Standard. And we also have a TikTok. So join us on TikTok for hot takes, recaps and teasers at The Regan Faulkner Show and join my website Regan Faulkner. Com. See what we've got going on over there. Thank you so much and I'll see you all next week.