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What Americans need is a break-up from these immature, self-important celebrities and our celebrity culture writ large.
"I hate y’all bad,” asserted rapper Cardi B in reaction to Donald Trump’s presidential election victory on her Instagram page, which has 165 million followers. In a now-deleted X post, the former stripper responsible for some of the most sexually explicit mainstream pop music ever released added: “This is why some of y’all states be getting hurricanes,” a reference to recent devastation experienced in such conservative states as Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina. These are not exactly the ravings of some fringe lunatic the Democrats can write off as not representing them — Cardi B spoke at a “Harris for President” rally in Milwaukee a few days before the election.
Nor is Cardi B an outlier among liberal celebrities. In an (also now-deleted) X post, Bette Midler, in a not-so-subtle jab at Trump voters, quoted the late journalist H.L. Mencken, who once described the “plain folks of the land” voting for a “downright moron.” Actress Yvette Nicole Brown in turn wrote (in another deleted post): “AmeriKKKa is showing out tonight. Just showing out.” Musician Billie Eilish on Instagram called Trump’s victory “a war on women” and at a Nov. 6 concert declared: “Someone who hates women so, so deeply is about to be the president.”
Why do we put up with this? It’s not simply that the vast majority of our celebrities are leftists — we all know that most of the entertainment industry leans left, often far left. It’s that they feel compelled to mock and shame the (more than) half of the electorate that politically disagrees with them. America doesn’t just need a new political leadership. We need new celebrities, too.
Leftist Celebrities Put On Another Most Over-Dramatic Performance
As M.D. Kittle documented in a recent Federalist article, the celebrity meltdown over the Trump victory has been characteristically absurd. On her X account, actress Christina Applegate urged: “Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights. Against disability rights. Yeah that. Unfollow me because what you did is unreal. Don’t want followers like this. So yeah. Done.”
Basketball superstar LeBron James “posted a photo with his daughter with a promise to ‘protect you.’” Actor John Cusack wrote: “The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted felon rapist and Nazi is a sign of deep nihilism.” He added: “A lot of Catholics voted for Trump. Why bother saying you adhere to any version of Christianity.” Singer and actress Ariana Grande wrote that she is “holding the hand of every person who is feeling the immeasurable heaviness of this outcome today.”
Actresses don’t want conservatives as fans (even if those fans have subsidized those actresses’ wealthy lifestyles). Athletes claim Republicans are out to get their daughters (wasn’t it Senate Democrats earlier this year calling for women to be added to the draft?). And in perhaps the most exaggerated performance to date, former practicing Catholic celebrities have the gall to scold Catholics on their voting decisions.
Our late-night hosts are just as ridiculous. “Today I wore my ‘I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity’ sticker,” quipped Stephen Colbert, who I remember many years ago used to be funny. Jimmy Kimmel uttered banal Dem talking points in proclaiming: “We had the choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal to be the president of the United States.” Over at “The Daily Show,” Senior Correspondent Desi Lydic offered more lefty pablum: “He’s a dictator. He’s a fascist. He’s a malignant narcissist …” --->READ MORE HERE
Kamala’s defeat proved celebrity endorsements are worthless
The media spent months pre-hyping Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. In its aftermath, stories claimed that the lip-synching sensation’s Instagram post drove half a million fans to not only buy overpriced merchandise, but to register to vote in the 2024 election.
The Kamala campaign embraced ‘Brat’ branding based on an album from a British half-Muslim pop star few Americans ever heard of. It brought out Beyonce to campaign (crucially not to sing) for Kamala who had tried to model her fanbase, the KHive, on Beyonce’s rabid Beyhive fans.
Kamala brought Oprah and Lady Gaga to Philly and Katy Perry to Pittsburgh. Julia Roberts cut an ad telling women to hide their votes from their husbands. In Michigan, white wife-killing enthusiast rapper Eminem headlined a Kamala rally while Obama rapped the opening of his ‘Lose Yourself’ (unintentionally revealing that he’s just as authentically black as Eminem.)
Bruce Springsteen shuffled out to perform at an Obama event for Kamala in Philly. The Kamala campaign brought Megan Thee Stallion to rap in Atlanta, dragged out what was left of the (Dixie) Chicks to the DNC and Lizzo to Detroit. Even the most faded has-beens like Lance Bass of NSYNC and Jennifer Aniston of Friends were tagged to shill for Kamala. Any celeb with even the slightest name recognition, past, present or future, was tasked with getting out the vote.
And the American people responded with a massive landslide which won not only the election, but the popular vote, for the man that all the celebrities had warned them not to vote for.
“This was really an historic, flawlessly run campaign,” Joy Reid raved on MSNBC. “Queen Latifah never endorses anyone. She had every prominent celebrity voice, she had Taylor Swift, the Swifties, she had Beyonce, the Beyhive, you could not have run a better campaign.”
Reid’s answer was that America was racist. But maybe Americans just hate celebrities?
If celebrity endorsements drove elections, America would have been run by Democrats since the Kennedy administration except for a two term Romney presidency. Apart from some immature teenagers and mentally ill people who not only pay $500 a pop to listen to a pop star lip sync music written by AI but actually build their identities around being their fans, most people view celebrities as entertainers not as moral authorities or thought leaders.
Americans don’t vote the way celebrities tell them to, but they just might vote against them.
Celebrity endorsements for insurance, mobile phone plans or candidates drive attention to the product, rather than unqualified enthusiasm for it. Advertisers understand this, the Kamala campaign didn’t. The attempt to build an armor of celebrities around Kamala was an insecure attempt to replicate Obama’s cult following without having any of the charisma. Obama cultivated celebrities because he successfully convinced 2008 voters that he was one. --->READ MORE HERE
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