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Lo and behold that Kanye West's run for the presidency as an anti-vaccine "independent" candidate is being orchestrated and driven by Republican operatives, including some with ties to the Trump Administration!

I told you there's no such thing as a candidate who is independent of the two-party system in this country. None at least who are capable of obtaining ballot access. The established Republican and Democratic parties control all candidates in every race. If you've wondered why West seems to have so few opinions on the issues, fewer coherent ones, and fewer still objections to the current president (begging the question of why he's running in the first place if he's fine with the status quo), the reason is because it's not his campaign. Kanye's is a Republican Party campaign for Donald Trump's re-election, and I mean that in the very most direct and literal sense. Republican operatives, some with ties to the White House, are literally running his campaign for him. To that end, he can't afford to stand for anything, as criticizing President Trump would tend to undermine the West campaign's actual mission of getting him re-elected. Expect Mr. West thus to persist in his lack of objections to the current regime and equal lack of clarity as to why the hell he's even running.