Kanye 2024 and why that’s an awful idea

On Tuesday night, rapper Kanye West posted on Twitter something that can only be assumed as his plans to run for president in 2024.

Of course, during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards while Donald Trump was only a presidential candidate running in a field of 16 candidates, West announced his intention to run for president in 2020. Of course, by now, West, who once accused former President George W. Bush of not caring about black people, has seemingly embraced President Trump, and even met with him shortly before his inauguration and said he would’ve voted for him.

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But now, with a few new albums scheduled for release in June, West has been ginning up support from the Right by vocalizing his support for pro-Trump personality Candace Owens.

He’s even tweeted out videos from Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who is another figure in entertainment that’s pro-Trump.

On Wednesday, West tweeted out that Trump is his “brother.”

What’s interesting is the level of outrage we’re seeing coming from liberals, who believe West is stuck in “the sunken place,” suggesting he’s been brainwashed.

But Kanye West isn’t brainwashed. He’s a mega-celebrity. Mega-celebrities are in their own echelon altogether. They think whatever they want, and they, for the most part, don’t care what anyone has to say about them.

West has likened himself to Jesus Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and the “nucleus” of culture to name a few. With an ego like his, why wouldn’t he think he can run for president in 2024 and win?

Right after the 2016 election, I predicted that Trump’s victory made Kanye West running for election in the future a real possibility. But now, West looks more likely to run as a Republican and not a Democrat, hence why he’d push his imminent run for office back to 2024.

I would be remiss to argue that he shouldn’t run at all. If Kanye West wants to run for president in 2024, he should, whether it be as a Democrat, Republican, or Independent. But not all of his thoughts and ideas are good.

By music standards (and arguably fashion), West is a genius. His debut album, “The College Dropout,” remains one of the greatest albums of the 2000s, and helped revolutionize the hip-hop genre and give it a new level of authenticity. Following it up with albums like “Late Registration” and “Graduation” only cemented his status as an icon of rap music.

However, by political standards, West is a novice. In many ways, he’s reminiscent of candidate Trump, or even maybe-candidate Trump when he briefly feinted at running in 2012. Both are charismatic and speak with a level of candor that some find divisive while others find it refreshing. Both are self-made in the private sector and enjoyed multimillion-dollar successes.

Yet, none of these qualities translate to good governance. West hasn’t even laid out any of his policy proposals on how he would make the country better.

In the same way Oprah would not make a good president for Democrats simply because she’s the antithesis to Trump, Kanye for president isn’t necessarily a good thing for Republicans. Americans can’t keep putting their trust in political outsiders with no governing experience and expect all of their problems to be fixed.

Knowledge and familiarity on the how to govern one of the most powerful nations in the world should count for something.