Is Kanye West funny in the head? Of course he is. But all politicians are a bit odd, and quite a lot of them are barking mad.
To the target audience, even West's latest marketing ploy looks like a better bet than Strom Thurmond's eulogist, the father of the prison-industrial complex, the restorer of the federal death penalty, the man who opposed bussing because he did not want his children to grow up in "a racial jungle", and the man who has never seen a country full of brown people without wanting to bomb it.
West is not going to win. He cannot even make it onto enough ballots for his support to be decisive. But he will be on every ballot in 2024. And even this year, the simple fact of his candidacy has put down a marker. The people whose ancestors worked on the cotton plantations for the Democrats are not now working on the vote plantations for the Democrats. Their votes have to be earned.
Keir Starmer, whom next year's census will show to be sitting for a Black Wall seat with a BAME population larger than the Labour majority, you need to take note. But you won't.
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