Will the most famous ‘childless cat lady’ of them all now declare for Kamala?

When Taylor Swift’s cat was photographed luxuriating around her neck on the cover of Time magazine, it confirmed one thing: not only was the singer its most recent “person of the year”, but she was also, without question, queen of the cat ladies. In a resurfaced TV interview from 2021, Donald Trump’s running mate claims that the Democrats are run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” People without children, he went on to say, namechecking Kamala Harris, shouldn’t have a direct stake in the future of America. As one Twitter/X user posted in response to the Vance video: “Hell hath no fury like a certain childless cat lady who has yet to endorse a presidential candidate.” Prior to 2020, Swift had never been drawn on her political leanings for fear of alienating her audience. If Swift – who has 283m followers in Instagram alone – were to give Vance the same scathing treatment she usually reserves for the worst of her ex-boyfriends, his “childless cat ladies” comment could prove as toxic as Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” in 2016, and which she has said was a key factor in her losing the election. It’s ripe for the reclaiming – childless cat lady not being the slur Vance might imagine it is, with Swift purring on her throne to prove it.