Taylor Swift: Alt-Right Icon

Taylor Swift is a star of many faces – known variously as a country music darling, a pop music sensation, a forlorn damsel, the powerful leader of her girl squad and, perhaps above all else, a savvy marketer. Less well-known is her reputation within the alt-right, where she's become the object of affection for white supremacists. As the founder of a now-underground neo-Nazi website put it: "The entire alt-right patiently awaits the day when we can lay down our swords and kneel before her throne [...] as she commands us to go forth and slaughter the subhuman enemies of the Aryan race."

While few suspect Taylor Swift of harboring any sympathy for the white supremacists who love her, the affection she's garnered raises some questions: Why her? Why now? And, in the wake of Charlottesville, does she have a responsibility to denounce their hateful ideology? Brooke speaks with Mitchell Sunderland, Senior Staff Writer at Vice, who first broke the story of Taylor Swift’s alt-right following last year.