Taylor’s Takes: They don’t get it, and they never will

DISCLAIMER: I’m a happily married man and love my wife dearly. She is the only woman I ever want to be with and is the model wife and mother to our children.

Sydney Sweeney is hot, and the Left can’t stand it.

The outrage over her partnership with American Eagle’s “Great Jeans” ad campaign has brought nothing but joy into my life.

Firstly, I’d like to thank the wokesters for being so angry over the very sexy, punny adverts. I don’t watch traditional television and don’t find myself perusing clothing websites. Without the uproar over this campaign, I may have never even seen the steamy Sweeney commercials.

Secondly, it has been joyous to come to realize that the lefties haven’t learned their lesson: America is done with woke.

By now, I’m sure you’re aware of the “controversy” over the ads.

“Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” the voiceover declares.

Obviously, the double entendre is the crux of the ad. Not only is Sweeney blessed with objective beauty, she is wearing the designer denim put forward by American Eagle.

It’s a chuckle-worthy line, and brings back memories of a more golden age for advertising. Not the three-piece suit-clad, binge-smoking, whiskey-swilling ad men of the 60s. But the late 90s, early 2000s just-for-the-hell-of-it ads.

Commercials like Budweiser’s “wazuuup” ad campaign. The “dirty mouth” series by Orbit Gum. The weird “berries and cream” guy for Starburst.

Those commercials were intentionally inoffensive and appealed to anyone with a sense of humor. If you laughed, the brand earned your respect for having the decency to appeal to you as an American who has no problem laughing at yourself or your culture.

Commercials today are a far cry from that “golden age.” They feel cold and analytical. Uninspired.

Again, I don’t watch much television, so I can’t point you to any specific ads from 2025. Outside of the evermore-resonating “don’t be like your parents” ads from Progressive, nothing comes to mind.

So, when a blonde bombshell bursts onto the scene wearing jean pants and a carefully parted jean jacket, appealing to the basic instincts of men, the Left can’t help but lose their minds. “Sexy and funny? That’s not in the 2025 script!”

Liberals have been playing fast and loose with the Nazi comparisons for years, long before Trump arrived on the political scene. But they directed all of their ire toward Trump and his supporters, twisting his America First agenda into a Hitleresque desire to impoverish anyone who isn’t white.

Of course, their ire is severely misguided. But once a lefty starts seeing everything as Nazi propaganda, that’s all they’re going to see.

It’s like when you get a new car. You see it on the lot and decide that’s the car you want to see yourself in for the next several years. As soon as you drive it off the lot, what happens? You start seeing that same model being driven all over the place. Suddenly, it seems that the car that you’ve never noticed before is now the most driven model in your city.

But the car has always been there. You just never noticed it before until you adopted that same vehicle as your own.

The Left is accusing American Eagle of dealing in Nazi propaganda because of the “great jeans” pun, accompanied by a beautiful woman who just so happens to have blonde hair and blue eyes.

What they really can’t stand and refuse to articulate is the return to normalcy.

They hate that Sydney Sweeney is plainly a beautiful woman.

She has no visible piercings.

She has no visible tattoos.

She has no visible disability.

She has no neon colors in her hair.

She’s not wearing a pin showing her support for “Palestine.”

She’s not showing any support for the queer community.

And despite all of those perceived shortcomings, they hate that she is drooled over by men all over America.

She’s just normal.

And instead of embracing normalcy, the Left continues to careen into deeper patterns of misguided outrage.

Keep it up, guys. You’ll be on a losing streak from which you may never recover.