Can Taylor Swift save the world from Donald Trump?

Swift’s ballot-box influence is untested, but Republicans clearly see her as enough of a threat to Trump that they have begun warning her to stay out of the political fray.

Former U.S. president and 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump recently said cultural phenomenon Taylor Swift would be acting in a ‘disloyal’ way if she supported President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 27, 2024

OTTAWA—It’s hard to get too serious about a pop star, but let’s begin with the fact that the United States Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia has characterized Taylor Swift as a one-person economic game-changer.

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