Ye, We Knew Ye Too Well

(John Hinderaker)

I didn&#8217t spend close interest to the controversy over Kanye West&#8217s seemingly anti-Semitic feedback of a few times ago. This was partly simply because I have zero curiosity in hip-hop music or in manner, the fields in which West has had success, and typically for the reason that he definitely is mentally sick. To the extent I have observed West&#8217s political musings, they are utterly incoherent.

But the Still left discovered West a easy focus on simply because some of his political pronouncements have been favorable towards Donald Trump. Trump, as typical, played into the Democrats&#8217 hands. He invited West to dinner at Mar-a-Lago, and West brought with him a person named Fuentes with whom I am unacquainted, but who evidently is objectionable. That forced Trump to deny any expertise of Fuentes while however striving to keep his fragile alliance with the deeply disturbed Ye.

Now, West has torn it: in an interview with Alex Jones, of all people today, he came out in assistance of Hitler. &#8220I like Hitler.&#8221 &#8220We gotta halt dissing the Nazis all the time.&#8221 The whole point was strange, with West wearing a black stocking cap or the like more than his confront.

So liberals are getting a industry working day, associating Ye with Donald Trump.

This unfortunate story prompts numerous ideas.

To start with, Kanye West has a extended historical past of psychological ailment, in which he is now much absent. He requirements assistance. Pretending that he is a important political determine is absurd.

Next, Donald Trump&#8217s judgment is, after all over again, terrible. He hitched himself to the wagon of an obviously unstable and irrational entertainer, I presume simply because it gave him some form of trendy cachet. Also, most likely, because West is&#8211for some explanation&#8211prosperous. The cigar that has now blown up in Trump&#8217s face was entirely foreseeable, and he has no a single to blame but himself. Trump, whose daughter married a Jew, whose Jewish son-in-law was a essential adviser when he was president, who has Jewish grandchildren, and who was likely the most professional-Israel president in our record, has allowed himself to be tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism. Presidential contenders will need to be clever. Trump is not smart.

Third, and most significant, allow&#8217s not neglect in which severe anti-Semitism will come from. It is still left-wing Democrats like the customers of the &#8220Squad,&#8221 not Republicans, who are equally anti-Semitic and viciously anti-Israel. The Democrats&#8217 anti-Semitic record goes back again a prolonged way. Even right now, they go on to confer kingmaker position on Al Sharpton, a infamous anti-Semite who is neither outrageous nor irrelevant. Sharpton incited the Crown Heights riot, for which he has hardly ever apologized. Then there is Louis Farrakhan, who is at last out of favor with Democrats&#8211officially, at least&#8211but who has finished orders of magnitude additional to incite hatred towards Jews than West.

Kanye West is just a lousy, mentally ill gentleman. I hope he receives proper remedy. But Donald Trump, by associating himself in a tone-deaf manner with the unreliable West, has allowed the Democrats to change the burden of anti-Semitism from them selves, wherever it belongs, to Republicans. This is the form of political incompetence that will doom Donald Trump to the dustbin of heritage.