I can’t remember a time when Kanye West wasn’t out there doing something bonkers. This is a guy who launched to fame by rapping with his jaw wired shut after a car accident. He jumped onstage at an awards show and humiliated Taylor Swift. He marched with Occupy Wall Street to protest “the 1%,” while wearing $900 jeans and a $23,000 Rolex. He tried to “co-opt” the Confederate flag to sell t-shirts. And of course, he stood up in front of the whole world and told us what was really going on during Hurricane Katrina:

That last one made Kanye a liberal icon. He said what a lot of people believed. A lot of people still believe it. And if it isn’t actually true, so what? It makes people feel good to say it, and that’s what really matters. Kanye was part of the #Resistance before there were even hashtags.

But that was then. This is now. And now Kanye has committed the ultimate sin: Expressing approval of Donald Trump.

You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

my wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don’t agree with everything Trump does. I don’t agree 100% with anyone but myself. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

we got love pic.twitter.com/Edk0WGscp6 — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

my MAGA hat is signed 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/DrDHJybS8V — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

I’m so happy to hear that Peter Thiel would like to take a meeting. I feel very optimistic about the future. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

I ain’t sayin’ ‘Ye’s a redpiller, but his MAGA tweets are head-killers. (And what’s “dragon energy,” anyway? Has he been playing God of War this week?)

Then, he dropped a nuke:

Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

Uh-oh. Sounds like he just woke up from being “woke”! And the fallout is spreading:

Black people don’t have to be democrats. — Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) April 25, 2018

Chance the Rapper is right. Black people don’t have to be Democrats. But you’re not supposed to say that.

To a lot of Yeezy fans, this is heresy. It’s hate speech. It cannot stand. Here’s a sampling of the reaction from the shocked and angry Kanye fans who thought he was a comrade:

“Intent doesn’t matter as much as action and effect. And Kanye’s recent actions have shown, in a clear and unambiguous fashion, that he doesn’t care about black people.” — The Root

“His drive to be regarded as an outside-the-box thinker led him to be taken in by the absurd argument that black voters are slaves on the Democratic Party plantation.” — WaPo

“The Kanye West delusion is not one from which he’s suffering, but we are. It’s the lie that he — or anyone — is just like us, struggling against a machine, aching to express ourselves as clearly as possible.” — The Ringer

Justin Bieber, BTS, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Kendrick Lamar are among the artists who have unfollowed Kanye West on Twitter after his open support of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/UF1uw2IYH6 — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 25, 2018

So, they’re streaming music in The Sunken Place?? That’s got Be where the audience @kanyewest is courting is gonna buy that new release!#shallwesavehim#hedon’twannabesaved — Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) April 26, 2018

I love that great, brilliant artists have the power to imagine a better future. But artists can’t be blind to the truth. — John Legend (@johnlegend) April 25, 2018

Just as in any other mind-control cult, there’s no greater thrill for a liberal than the self-righteous ecstacy of casting out a blasphemer. They love you when you say what they want to hear, but that only lasts until you say something they don’t want to hear. Then you’re out.

Hell, once upon a time they even loved Donald Trump. Just ask Joy Reid!

Not that “conservatives” are covering themselves in glory either. They hated Kanye for bashing Bush, and now they’re falling all over themselves because he put on a MAGA hat and said he doesn’t hate Trump like he’s supposed to. All is forgiven, right?

I’m just enjoying the show while it lasts. A Trump/Kanye alliance is too tenuous and volatile to go very far, because they’re too much alike. They’re both titanic narcissists with no filter and no regard for consequences. Sure, they’re buddy-buddy now, trolling the normies and owning the libs. But the minute one of them slights or displeases the other? If either of their egos gets the slightest bruise, all bets are off.

I can’t wait!