The GOP’s Bet on Kanye West Goes Very Bad

Philip Bump: “As if to reinforce that point, the Twitter account of the House Judiciary Committee’s Republican caucus — an account weirdly focused on engaging in culture war fights — quietly deleted the tweet it had offered in October praising three men then seen as important anchors of the political right. ‘Kanye. Elon. Trump,’ that tweet said, referring to Ye, the then-new owner of Twitter and the former president.”

“The goal of the tweet, very obviously, was to claim the popularity of those individuals as their own.”