Kanye's Downfall Shows Why Free Speech Works

Well, that didn't take long. In just a few weeks, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from potential Republican superstar to a completely disgraced antisemitic lunatic.

Kanye's fall from grace hit its nadir on Thursday during a stranger-than-fiction interview he did on InfoWars with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Ye said, and this is a direct quote, "I like Hitler."

"I like Hitler," Ye expounded. "The Holocaust is not what happened. Let's look at the facts of that. Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities."

It somehow got even stranger.

"[Nazis] did good things, too," Ye went on to say later in the interview. "We've got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time. The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world."

In case there was any shred of doubt left as to Ye's intent, he followed up the interview by tweeting out a literal swastika. (Yes, seriously. You can't make this stuff up.)