Given the pandemonium surrounding Taylor Swift’s over-the-top celebrity in the last year, it was probably inevitable that the star would be drawn into the American presidential race.

The contretemps that resulted was greeted with ridicule by most sober-minded people. But it is still an insight into the air of both absurdity and menace that still hangs over the country as the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency looms.

Taylor Swift has turned her back previously on US presidential contender Donald Trump.

Like most cultural figures in America, Swift is appalled by Donald Trump. She endorsed Joe Biden in 2020. She accused Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” and vowed to help vote him out of office. This campaign, however, she’s been silent; she has, after all, been amidst a world tour that, just in 2023, grossed more than a record $1.5 billion in ticket sales.

However, when her new boyfriend – an American football player named Travis Kelce – ended up in the Super Bowl, a certain segment of the American right-wing echosphere went nuts with a conspiracy theory: That the CIA was behind........

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