'Frankly weird': Conservative 'lunacy' about Taylor Swift brutally mocked by ​WSJ editors

According to the editors of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, conservatives who are buying into internet conspiracies about Taylor Swift, her romance with NFL star Travis Kelce and how it is an elaborate plot to steal the 2024 election need to step away from social media and go outside and get some fresh air.

In the editorial that went to press on Thursday, the editors called the far-right obsession about the pop singer and her latest beau "frankly, weird."

Case in point, they noted, is a belief that the highly publicized romance combined with Swift's liberal leanings is an elaborate "psy-ops" scheme that has been elevated to "lunacy" by people like conservative provocateur Vivek Ramaswamy who recently wrote, "What your kind of people call ‘conspiracy theories,’ I simply call an amalgam of collective incentives hiding in plain sight.”

With a mocking, "Connect the dots, sheeple," the editors wrote, "Yet the paranoia on the right about a romance between the most popular singer in the world and an NFL player does make Republicans seem, frankly, weird. Americans who want a return to normalcy won’t find it in a movement that demonizes two of America’s healthier entertainments."

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Summing up they added, "Maybe the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl, or maybe not. Maybe Ms. Swift and Mr. Kelce will live happily ever after, in a world-historical setback for the art form of breakup songs, or maybe not. Maybe she will endorse Mr. Biden again, or maybe not. But the CIA isn’t orchestrating it all, and neither are the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Elvis, JFK, Bigfoot, Opus Dei, or alien lizard people living among us."

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