Posted on 04/24/2025 6:55:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cherie Currie was the lead singer of the 1970s hard rock band The Runaways. It’s the same group that launched the career of Joan Jett.
These days, Cherie Currie still performs to adoring audiences, but she is also more focused on politics, and she has embraced MAGA and the conservative movement.
A quick glimpse at Currie’s Twitter/X account lets you know exactly where she stands.
Currie’s political transformation has been in the works for a while.
Western Journal reported on this almost a year ago:
Former Punk Rock Lead Singer Cherie Currie Renounces the Democratic Party After Realizing She ‘Fell for’ Its ‘Lies’
About 40 or 50 years ago, cross-dressing, tattoos, protesting and occupying the radical left wing were enough to establish your punk credentials.
But something changed in the intervening decades. What once put these punk groups in direct opposition to the mainstream has now become deeply entrenched in the mainstream…
Best known as the lead vocalist for the teenage punk band (which included a young Joan Jett) in the 70’s, Currie embodied that anti-establishment ethos of the time by prancing around on stage in lingerie and singing sexually charged lyrics before it was cool.
But now, the former punk rocker has taken to social media platform X, denouncing in a lengthy rant the Democrat Party for the left-wing rhetoric she once espoused.
Later this month, Currie is speaking at this conservative event:
Currie talks about her political journey in this #WalkAway video:
It’s not easy for people to stand up like this and speak the truth about their beliefs. When a person leaves the left, they usually get attacked, especially if they’re famous. Congratulations to Ms. Currie for being her own woman.
UPDATE: It looks like Cherie Currie has read this story. She tweeted it:
A lot of punk rockers have gravitated toward conservatism, and it actually makes a lot of sense. In the 70’s punk was a reaction to, and against, both the latent hippy movement and the contemporary disco/yacht rock trends. While initially punks were all about “Anarchy,” I suspect maturity and wisdom have led them to move a little away from that, being happy with, “small government.”
Cherie made this change at least 2 years ago. I think the trans crap pushed her over the edge...
Same with Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. Ted was a big 2nd Amendment guy...
I still find it hard to believe that Ted didn’t know what “Journey To The Center Of The Mind” was about.
Good for her. Cherie was married to Robert Hays of Airplane! fame, but she’s basically bi-sexual. Lita Ford was also in the Runaways and left because she was the only straight one in the group. Joan Jett, another member, is a lefty loon and has had a long running feud with Ted Nugent.
Very nice! No Tattoo’s!
Lita Ford was the Runaway that floated my boat back in the day.
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