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The Chicks’ ‘Not Ready to Make Nice’ Has Somehow Become a MAGA Anthem on TikTok

The Chicks' 'Not Ready to Make Nice' — a song famously about the far-right's efforts to blackball the band — has somehow become a MAGA anthem.

One MAGA-loving country artist on TikTok, Austin Forman, has spent the past couple of days doing just that, slurping liberal tears as he explains why, actually, it’s totally fine for conservatives to relate to the song’s lyrics despite the reason they were written. (He even did his own acoustic cover of the tune, ostensibly as an effort to offer conservative posters a version they can use without putting money in the Chicks’ pocket, though that’s not exactly how publishing royalties work.) The dissonance is as glaringly goofy as Paul Ryan loving Rage Against the Machine, Ronald Reagan trying to co-opt “Born in the U.S.A,” or even the decisively non-political trend of TikTokers using a freaking Charlie Manson demo to capture a cozy autumn vibe.

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