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Is Sydney Sweeney A Crypto Nazi?

Um...probably not

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Jul 31, 2025
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For a long time, Sydney Sweeney has been alleged to be a surprisingly potent geopolitical force. Richard Hanania claimed that Sweeney in some way signals the downfall of wokeness! Now, various left-wingers have claimed that Sweeney is engaged in Nazi propaganda—that she is a crypto-Nazi involved in a sort of subtle fascist apologia that strangely crept into a jeans ad! To her credit, Sweeney did not respond the way Buckley did in the famous Gore Vidal debate to accusations of crypto-Nazism:

“Listen to me you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”

So why have left-wingers—including those at various mainstream outlets—been calling Sweeney a Nazi? The true reason is almost incomprehensibly dumb, and quite politically self-destructive.

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