Americans are tuning out ‘hypersensitive woke' outrage over Sydney Sweeney ad
'There's a couple of people who apparently think the ad promotes white supremacy and eugenics, which sort of gives you a sense of where we are in the country these days,' Mr Mulvaney told Sky News Australia.
'Some really good commentary in this country in the last couple of days over how so few people are taking the bait over whether or not this is a racist ad or a racially based ad, and the general consensus is that no one cares.
'We're beyond this sort of hypersensitive woke time in the United States of America, maybe we're going back to the point where an ad about jeans is just an ad about jeans and not about politics.'
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