Brittany Mahomes Has More Courage Than Most Republicans

What do Republican politicians have in common with former professional soccer player, founding co-owner of the National Women’s Soccer League’s Kansas City Current, wife to three-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes II, and expecting mom of two Brittany Mahomes? Certainly not the courage to push past propaganda press narratives.

Mahomes made waves earlier in the month for liking an Aug. 13 post on former President Donald Trump’s Instagram page outlining the 2024 Republican platform.

Neither the 29-year-old nor her quarterback husband has ever publicly declared loyalty to one political candidate over another. Yet, internet anons and self-proclaimed “Swifties” pounced on the original Kansas City Chiefs’ darling for daring to appear even the slightest bit sympathetic towards popular solutions like secure borders, tax cuts, and keeping men out of women’s sports.

If Mahomes were anything like the GOP politicians in Congress, she would likely try to shy away from the controversy or cover it up to stay in the good graces of the newest cohort of Taylor Swift-inspired Chiefs’ fans and the press. But even after she had unliked the post, Mahomes never tripped over herself to appease demands from the mob.

Far too often, Republicans concerned with what the wrong people think of them sacrifice their principles and voters’ wishes to score points with their partisan counterparts and corporate media. Senators and representatives alike don’t hesitate to capitulate on key issues like abortion, in vitro fertilization, the border, religious liberty, Second Amendment rights, and more.

When they aren’t indulging Democrats’ radical policy whims, GOP politicians can often be found refusing to hold tyrannical bureaucrats accountable for weaponizing the deep state against law-abiding Americans. Instead of using their platforms to skillfully expose the propaganda press’s routine hoaxing, many opt for toothless statements, empty threats, and finger-wagging.

Mahomes, unlike the spineless cowards that plague the halls of Cannon, isn’t melting in the face of a pressure campaign. Especially one that sought to demonize her for, as Vox put it, assuming a “political stance [that] appears to many to be at odds with Patrick’s identity” as a biracial man.

Instead, she’s moved past the corporate media’s quibbling about her social media activity and “doubled down.”

“I mean honestly, To be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted issues you refuse to heal from childhood,” she wrote on her Instagram story on Aug. 23. “There’s no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well.”

A few days later, she shared a post on her Instagram story urging her followers to respect people even if they hold different beliefs.

“Contrary to the tone of the world today … you can disagree with someone, and still love them. You can have differing views, and still be kind.” “Read that again!” she wrote.

Mahomes’ ability to “stop caring about what people think, especially the people that don’t even know you” is not a natural one. As she explained during her Aug. 28 appearance on the “WHOOP Podcast,” “social media used to get to me a lot.”

It was only after her husband helped her “get to that point to where, you know, I’m strong in who I am, I’m confident in who I am, I’m confident in mine and his relationship, and I’m confident in our life” that she was able to brush off the haters.

“Now, it’s just like, honestly, I don’t give a f-*-c-k what people have to say about me anymore,” Mahomes said. She later questioned, “Why does, you know, what other people say have to matter at all?”

The bar to beat Republicans at handling corporate media-fueled controversy is low, but Mahomes and her DGAF attitude about the media’s whining have successfully cleared it. Republicans serious about securing wins for their voters should be more like Brittany in ignoring the corrupt media’s attempts to goad them into believing their opinions matter more than the people who elected them to office.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.