http://nypost.com/2025/07/29/opinion/sydney-sweeney-tantrum-is-all-about-the-lefts-rage-at-americas-rejection/
This article hits the bulls eye - dead center.
By Kira Davis
New York Post
Published July 29, 2025, 7:19 p.m. ET
{Kira Davis is an independent opinion journalist and podcaster living in Southern California.}
Video ~ http://youtu.be/Nn0PY818YRs
Pretty much everyone wears blue jeans in modern America. Jeans have gone from workwear to high fashion over the last 150-plus years. Dress them up, dress them down . . . they’re as flexible as American culture.
Perhaps they are so enduring because everyone can wear them. Fat or skinny, tall or short, curvy to curve-less and everything in between — jeans are the fashion of unity.
But when we’re buying a pair, we’re not contemplating any of that.
We want to think about what we could look like wearing them, or who might be attracted to us while we’re wearing them.
I am speaking, of course, about the power of advertising, and last week the latest ad for American Eagle jeans caused extreme distress among the Very Online crowd.
It’s a pretty basic ad: Current Hollywood “It Girl” Sydney Sweeney poses provocatively next to a classic Mustang, wearing classic jeans and a classic white shirt.
She sexily fiddles with the engine, sexily closes the hood, then drives away in her sexy car while wearing her sexy jeans.
The narrator tells us, “Sydney Sweeney has great genes.” (Genes/jeans, get it?)
The outrage seems two-fold.
First, the usual suspects are screaming accusations of racism at the idea of a white, blond, blue-eyed starlet declaring the superiority of her genes.
Shades of eugenics, according to the congregants of the Church of the Perpetually Offended.
To a lesser extent, but still very obvious to those of us who have been observing the culture wars of the last 30 years, the left seems upset at the very notion of an attractive young woman being used to sell clothing.
American Eagle’s deliberate bucking of the “body positive” trend thrust upon us by the human resources cult utterly infuriates certain unstable members of our eclectic society.
Some people blame all their failures in life on the fact that someone else was smarter, cuter or richer. It’s envy, of course, and it undergirds every ridiculous complaint about the new American Eagle campaign.
But I believe the overheated uproar over Sweeney’s ad is about more than just racism or envy.
It’s about Donald Trump — or more precisely, about the sharp right turn the American people took last November.
We are witnessing the desperate tantrums of a progressive left that is struggling to accept the verdict of the electorate.
We have rejected their bizarre views on gender and sexuality.
We have rejected their open-border, America Last programs.
We have rejected their safe spaces and brutal fragility.
We have rejected their pronouns and their creepy obsession with our children.
The pandemic response so effectively choked off information that it gaslit Americans into believing our national sensibilities had dramatically shifted.
The extreme left was mainstreamed and validated, while the rest of us were confined to our homes and computer screens.
But after November, the leftists must face a sudden reality: They were never the majority at all.
And they are not stronger than the American spirit.
It’s a tough pill to swallow for the crowd accustomed to shouting down teenage girls complaining about boys in their school bathrooms.
Their problem with Sweeney is the same problem now shared by the entire Democratic complex — they are angry they were wrong.
They are angry the American people made them wrong, and that means everything average Americans love is wrong.
We don’t want to buy our jeans from people who look like us; we want to buy our jeans from people who look like our fantasy of us.
American men like looking at hot, busty women, and American women like looking hot in the eyes of American men.
That is a perfectly typical attitude, and one that has been used with great success since the dawn of corporate advertising.
Of course the left had to frame their rage in terms of racism and Nazis. After their Tesla terrorism tirade, they’ve practically made the swastika their official symbol.
But what really offends them is the normal desire of normal Americans for normal things.
Blue jeans, beautiful women, fast cars. We keep it simple in this part of the world, and the progressive left does not like simple, as evidenced by their 89-and-counting genders.
The Sydney Sweeney ad campaign perfectly embodies how Trump’s Golden Age is permeating every aspect of American society.
And it’s got the progressive left — bereft of ideas, strategies and interesting spokespersons — seething.
Long live blue jeans and beauty. America is back.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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