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The GOP’s Kanye West Problem Has Been a Fully Mask Off Moment.
How they’re responding is incredibly telling.
If you’ve got any access to the news or outside world whatsoever, it’s been virtually impossible to avoid the stories about Kanye West and his increasingly brazen, dangerous antisemitic rants. Unfortunately it’s just been getting worse and more bizarre in recent days, whether it be the completely masked interview with Alex Jones in which he expressed his genuine admiration and respect for Hitler, or the fact that he had the nerve to then post a picture of a swastika merged with the star of David on his recently re-instated Twitter account.
I mean, when you’ve managed to make Alex Jones of all people break out in nervous laughter that already says a lot, no?
But I guess that’s just it, isn’t it? The very people who have gladly given Kanye West a platform to spew this kind of conspiracy-driven hatred don’t really have much to actually say in response, do they? Of course, there are still a lot of people on the right feigning shock and anger, acting as though no one could have possibly seen this coming.
But, of course they knew.
There are no words to describe how insulting it is, watching how ready they were to embrace him when he was happily wearing ‘white lives…
