 I know who’s side I’m on.”

Taylor attended the University of Iowa as a political science major.As a student, Taylor became an editor of the "Hawkeye Review", an conservative student newspaper that served as an alternative to the "Daily Iowan".Taylor's activism stirred several controversies including the alleged plagiarism of a Joseph Sobran column from National Review in the "Daily Iowan," and his involvement in a harassment campaign against LGBT patrons at a local gay bar.