Kanye West ,What Kanye West and Tucker Carlson reveal about the struggle for power.As far as I can tell, Fox News host Tucker Carlson had never interviewed Ye, the musician born Kanye West, before Thursday. Carlson has hyped West\u2019s politics in the past; the musician\u2019s slow shift into Donald Trump\u2019s broader orbit has been hailed by many on the right. But it wasn\u2019t until this week, it seems, that Carlson granted Ye airtime for an extended conversation.This is also the week in which Ye made an international splash while wearing a T-shirt to Paris Fashion Week that proclaimed, in large block letters, \u201cWHITE LIVES MATTER.\u201d And Carlson reached out.
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As he opened his show, Carlson framed the interview around the shirt and its message. Ye, Carlson said, had become \u201ca kind of Christian evangelist\u201d whose embrace of the \u201cobviously true\u201d phrase had infuriated the left, to Carlson\u2019s glee. And, speaking to Carlson, Ye hit the notes that you might expect from a Carlson guest: Trump was great, the left is toxic, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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