This only makes sense when I realize that to conservatives, it’s an identity. They think it’s an identity that Taylor Swift should have because she’s (presumably) white, popular, rich, good looking, Midwestern, Christian, etc.
To them politics is not about ideas, or policies, or problem solving, or good governance. It’s all about identity.
Leftists aren’t liberals.
The left was mostly aligned with liberalism some time ago, but they aren’t the same thing and now the two are mostly incompatible.