Peter Schweizer didn’t treat Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a harmless cultural moment. He treated it as a signal.
Schweizer — best-selling author and president of the Government Accountability Institute — argues the performance represented a “clash of civilizations.” He says it wasn’t just music and spectacle. It was a message, delivered on the biggest stage in American sports.
“This is a clash of civilizations that’s occurring. And Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, praised this performance and said the call was not for unity in the United States. The call was for unity of all the Americas — that the United States and all of Latin America should unite as one. That was the message the president of Mexico got from that performance,” Schweizer told Fox News’ Jesse Watters.
Schweizer grounded his argument in what he described as Bad Bunny’s prior themes and rhetoric. He pointed to Bad Bunny’s previous reference to “La Raza,” and to songs Schweizer said criticize Anglo colonialism in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
To Schweizer, those aren’t stray artistic choices. They’re part of a coherent worldview.
That worldview, Schweizer argued, is rooted in the Latin American left’s resistance to immigrant assimilation. In his telling, the goal is not incorporation into the American mainstream, but a kind of borderless unity across the Americas — a hemispheric identity that competes with national identity.
Schweizer said the symbolism around the performance underscored that point. A Spanish-language show. Prominent flag displays. Cultural markers are presented not as additive, but as assertive. He framed the moment as resistance to assimilation, not a simple celebration of heritage.
Watters approached it from a different angle but arrived at a similar unease. He said he was troubled by foreign flags appearing at American events, especially after years of illegal immigration. Schweizer took that concern and widened the lens, arguing the flags and language weren’t random details. They were the point.
“Look, here’s the thing. What’s significant about the flags is not only this notion of unity, but also that he’s performing in Spanish. He’s not performing in English. The Latin American left does not want migrants to come to the United States to assimilate,” Schweizer said. They don’t want them to learn the language. They don’t want them to adopt American values. They call them traitors. That’s what Shienbaum’s top aides call the Mexicans who learn the language. So this is not about loving everybody. This is about a cultural clash that they hope to win.”
Schweizer’s bottom line was blunt: this was cultural conflict presented as entertainment. Not a party. A posture.
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