The turnaround in Kanye's fortune has been widely construed as a downfall. But if he's falling anywhere, it’s into the waiting arms of a right-wing ecosphere that's shown few reservations about embracing troubled mouthpieces like him. zakcheneyrice writes
, who once toured the country lambasting Black people for being immoral and lazy before getting outed as a serial rapist, descend from a brand of Black conservatism that dates back to the 19th century. Trump’s grip on the attention economy has granted Black fame and media savvy a new currency on the right.
Winning West would be a special sort of coup for the right. It is widely taken for granted that, although conservatives helm many of our political and judicial institutions, the ideological left has a stranglehold on culture. And even today, with the quality of his music in steep decline, West commands almost universal recognition as one of the best and most influential artists of our age.
But his role as a transgressive right-wing delegate has only been expanding. It really got going in 2018, when he emerged from a hiatus from the public eye to praise Trump. West then commended Owens, who believes that the 1969 moon landing was faked and that a COVID-19 vaccine killed, on Twitter — “I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” he wrote — and the two became fast friends. It was Owens who helped debut his “White Lives Matter” line, a testament to their shared zeal for shallow provocation.
It was the natural next step for West to find an ideological refuge in a conservative movement transformed by Trump. His declarations about being victimized by a host of specters —, the Jews, the impostors who’ve replaced his children — is in tune with a movement whose identity is increasingly defined by enemies real or imagined, even when it’s in power, and demands for impunity.
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