For all the anxiety over” saving republic” this election season, it looks to me like law by the public is dead and effectively. Did anyone reasonable feel compelled to see a pop star’s opinions on the Middle East conflict if it were n’t? Missouri’s darling, Chappell Roan, told , the Guardian , last month that she wo n’t endorse Kamala Harris because the vice president, despite her reckless , insistence , on a ceasefire in Gaza, is too friendly toward Israel for Roan’s taste. The aftermath of this significant speech has sparked media outcry for weeks.
Unfortunately, Roan has fallen short of her liberal market for being too constantly leftist, which sort of tracks for a younger woman whose backup dancers , joke , with her about not knowing how to charm the words “hot” and “go”. Roan has since , clarified , that she is as “H-O-T T-O G-O” to the polls for Harris as Hillary Clinton’s adherents were to” Pokemon Go to the surveys” for her. She explained, however, that” there is no means I can stand behind some of the Left’s fully transphobic and murderous opinions”. So she’ll vote, but she ca n’t in good conscience endorse. She therefore added, in a manner , reminiscent , of Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 lamenting the absence of drawings in America’s rooms,” And, more therefore … Palestine”!
And more so Palestine, however. They claim that the hobgoblin of little minds is a dumb consistency, which is why famous people genuinely survive by sticking steadfastly to what they believe everyone will enjoy. Roan, whose” Great Success, Babe”! This year’s chart rocketed astronomically to compete with Sabrina Carpenter’s” Espresso” for the subject of Song of the Summer, and it may require a little more practice to give the people what they want. She now had to , cancel , a event performance in order” to promote my health”, which is probably script for anguish over the backlash. Then suddenly, drama is interest, so she may still come out on top.
In any case, she has adopted a somewhat different technique than the manic tiny kitten wife Taylor Swift, who , endorsed , Harris via Instagram, or Hayley Williams of Paramore ( remember them? ), who informed viewers of the iHeartRadio Music Festival that” Project 2025 is Donald Trump’s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community”. The more you know.
It’s probably soft of me, but I feel bad for these women. People obviously enjoy their music (” The Only Exception” was kind of a jam when I was in college, to be honest ), and they obviously want ( need, desperately! ) to be loved. There is no justification for them to not rejoice in their fame among those who they delight in in turn. No one claimed that they also needed to be political theorists.
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Except, of course, that Harris needs these women’s youthful charm and youth to maintain the impression that she is nothing more than the cynical pawn of a political system intended to eliminate and feed off its decaying lands. It’s that desperation on the part of a thoroughly astroturfed Democratic campaign, which is frantically communicated across all media outlets by a compliant press, that gives rise to the motivations for pop stars to work as policy analysts.  ,
It’s not a good look for them, and if it succeeds in driving up Harris’s numbers, it wo n’t be a good look for us, either. We’ll just have to hope most people, in the end, are smart enough to see through this whole dog and pony show — that’s democracy. If you can believe it, it beats all the other options.
Spencer Klavan is the author of How to Save the West, the host of the Young Heretics podcast, and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books.