Kanye West on InfoWars

[afleitch]

I mean, this isn't shocking.

Kanye clearly has some, inhibited, agency. But should we be shocked that after years of being courted by the reactionary right, his views being well known with Tucker cutting his anti-semitic comments from air just a few weeks ago and being defended until very recently by his handlers that we to the get 'I like Hitler' stage.

This  trajectory was clear years ago. And for years the 'you're not a Nazi or anti-Semite until you declare your love for Hitler' crowd have told everyone else they're the unreasonable ones.

By next week, he'll have his defenders against his 'cancellation'. And then rhetorically saying 'I like Hitler' will not be a red line anymore. And the window shifts, just as it did after the Club Q shooting, to excusing more and more odious beliefs and people.