EXCLUSIVE: Swifties for Trump: Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and the conservative women who love them both

Enter Swifties for Trump, a group of young women, unaffiliated, who love Swift, support Trump for president, and don't care who knows it. The Post Millennial caught up with a few of these fans who are unabashed in proclaiming their values and their fandom.

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Fandoms can be very personal things. We are drawn to certain artists and their work because it speaks to something deep and true within us. And for every era in American culture, there have been pop icons who capture the ethos of that moment. In America, right now, one of those icons is Taylor Swift, and like any good American culture phenomenon, she has become global.

Unlike other times in American life, however, our pop icons are basically required to become mouthpieces for political ideas, and the Democrat Party has almost secured a monopoly among the top earning, top performing recording artists.

"I think it's also important to note that Taylor Swift now is a musical legend, icon, status of the likes of Prince, Michael Jackson. People will laugh, that's fine. The Eras tour is one of the now number one best selling tours of all time," Alex Clark, a Swiftie for Trump and host of a TPUSA show, said to The Post Millennial. She also said the idea that Swift fans are all left leaning is basically insane.

"So are there conservative Taylor Swift fans?" Alex asked. "Of course, because we're talking about somebody that has some of the biggest mass appeal as an artist that we've had in decades. So of course, there are bound to be people with all different types of religious views, political views."

"That is why it has aggravated me the last six months to see conservative commentators ragging so hard on her and her fans," Alex said. And yes, there was a huge blowback against Swift and her young women fans when it seemed like Swift might lend her cred to the Democrat's political campaign. She hasn't so far.

"There are tons of people who are able to separate her politics from her art and enjoy her," Alex said, "and I think conservatives struggle a lot with that." But while Swift herself may speak to leftist political ideas, her art tells a different story. Swift brings beauty and femininity to her music, performances, and her fans. "It's just as much bringing beauty back," Alex said, "and appreciating beauty." She recommends that her Republican friends and colleagues "need to be the party that is promoting things that are beautiful and true in art, because obviously the left is destroying everything that is beautiful."

Alex Clark and Morgonn McMichael at Taylor Swift's Era's tour in Los Angeles, 2023

For Jenna Piwowarczyk, who began the public trend by creating and wearing a Swifties for Trump t-shirt, this was a huge part of her impulse. "The original reason I created the Swifties for Trump shirt was exactly that," she said. "I'm a huge Ben Shapiro fan. I'm super heavily involved, and I'm from Wisconsin. So, Wisconsin politics, every conservative I knew hated on Taylor, made fun of her fans, called us insane, and, you know, crazy fangirls. And I was tired of it, because Taylor Swift fans make up 50% of the United States population."

"We are discouraging young women," she continued. "That's the demographic where we struggle the most. We definitely need young women, and we are actively pushing them away by making fun of their role model and making fun of someone who has a good business model."

Debra Lea, a conservative political commentator from New York City, agreed, noting that she'd put in "years making conservatives cool again, just for them to sh*t on Taylor Swift and make us all the way back down to the bottom. I was like, 'Come on, guys, people, you're hating on a woman who's finally in love, then she'll stop writing breakup songs, you should be rooting for her to get married instead of just— that's like a whole anti women thing, that's just like an extra level to the right side of politics."

Morgonn agreed, saying "I feel like that's where conservative commentators fail, is they harp so much on 'Oh, she has bad taste in men. She's always writing these breakup songs. She's a horrible role model for women.' When in reality, when you look at her discography, there's so much more complexity to her albums than just having a bunch of breakup songs. When you look at this generation, we've grown up with Taylor Swift and watched her, and so now you have her fan base being instead of young, eight year olds, we're in our 20s and our 30s, some even in their 40s, and so they're rooting for Taylor to get married and have kids, and I think it will push our generation to want that more.”

"So why aren't conservative commentators cheering for her?" She continued. "Saying, 'yes, Taylor, we're proud, like, we want you to get married and have kids. That's exactly what our message is, and that we push is like, get married, have kids. You know, she's in her 30s, get married, have kids. So I don't know why people are always like nagging on her relationship with Travis Kelce, when it seems to be, honestly, the most conservative, wholesome relationship that there can be, being A-list celebrities."

"Travis is a manly man, right?" Jenna said. "He's a respectful, big grr football player, and Taylor's a very feminine, motherly, caring, nurturing woman, like it just is like a perfect, perfect marriage, perfect ideal, you know, gender roles, you know, basic, conservative, traditional family. It looks perfect."

Jenna Piwowarczyk from her Instagram, caption "I want to wear pink and tell you how I feel about politics -ts"

In 2020, Debra made a video titled "When you're a Republican and a secret Swiftie" and "it got thousands and thousands of comments of girls being like 'I'm admitting it too,'" Debra said. "And so this time around, now that we're four years later, I think the Republican side and the GOP at large gets a negative 10 out of 10 for marketing and branding. Negative 100 out of 10. If it's possible, they suck at it."

"We are so sick of not having one thing in this American society that we can enjoy with your neighbor without some aspect of politics infiltrating, whether it's football games, baseball games, movies, music, anything. It's really frustrating," Debra said. "And so to me it's a shock of like, 'Shut up with your label, shut up, but you can't do this or that.' At the end of the day, we're humans. We're not black and white. We're very complex beings. And being a Swiftie, a Trump-supporter, bypassing these lines, like seeing with like the gays for Trump, movements that have grown really popular, it's not about being either one of those labels. It's about saying 'politics is not the most important thing, and I'm disagreeing with this hyper globalized, politicized society, and I'm going to be me,' and so that's what I really think it's about now. And if we brand that, and I think that's what a lot of these women feel. It's not about Trump or Swift it really comes down to I just want to be me and live my life. And I'm sick of trying to fit all these stupid little boxes that progressives have set for us."