Bubbafication

Part of this love of fat, fast food comes from what I call the Bubbafication of America. Think of Bubba as Homer Simpson without the sophistication.

The Bubbafication of the Oval Office – with the McNugget presidency of Bill Clinton and the boots and rodeo-buckle administration of George W. Bush – has caused a cultural vacuum.

Eclectic and sophisticated are hence coded as negative traits–so cool equaling not so cool–putting Swift in seemed lockstep with the anti-intellectual sentiment that's led to the astonishing 21st-Century Bubbafication of the Republican Party.