E— Taylor Klahn browses through shirts on sale at the Derby Of San Francisco clothing store on Haight Street, Monday, June 1, 2026, in San Francisco, California.

Politically, Klahn identifies closest with the Democratic party. However, he believes that if he was still his 18-year-old self today, he “would have been stoked on Trump,” and the administration’s rapid escalation in ICE detentions and deportations. “I don’t get it why people are against immigrants”, Klahn said, reflecting on past and current right-wing movements. “We’re all immigrants, dude … we took this land from the Indians,” Klahn continued, emphasizing the value of empathy. “If you’re in a really shitty country, and you know that all you have to do to raise your family and get a good living [to] support your family is to cross a border —Anybody would do that, man.”