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Welcome to the political scene. I'm Tyler Faggett, a senior editor at The New Yorker.

Kanye Elon Trump. This is not the first line of the world's worst haiku, but rather, something

at the House GOP account tweeted a few weeks ago. Since then, Kanye West has cemented his

role as a poster child of the Republican Party with a series of bizarre political stunts.

First, he appeared at Paris Fashion Week, wearing a T-shirt that read, White Lives Matter.

Then, he started making incendiary comments on social media and in interviews.

On one podcast, West alleged that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose,

a claim that prompted the Floyd family to announce a $250 million lawsuit against him.

On Tucker Carlson tonight, West made anti-Semitic comments, some of which were so explicit that they were cut from the interview before it aired.

West, who now goes by the name Yeh, has declared his intention to buy a social network called

Parlor, a conservative alternative to Twitter. In an official statement, Parlor said that West's

support would help the platform, quote, create a truly non-cancelable environment.

My colleague, Andrew Morantz, who was reported extensively on the far right for the New Yorker,

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