What happened to Candace Owens?

Candace Owens spent the past half-decade becoming a poster child for young conservatism. She had raw talent and used it, amassing millions of followers, headlining the Right’s largest conferences and sitting down with its most prominent figures, such as former president Donald Trump.

Yet the commentator has taken a turn since leaving the Daily Wire earlier this year. In an interview this week, Owens claimed that Joseph Stalin was Jewish and part of a cabal that is now “occupying” America. Recently, she staked her “professional reputation” on Brigitte Macron secretly being a man. And she has revised the Second World War to be a tale of Allied powers targeting Catholics across the globe. And this week, during an interview with Andrew Tate, she equated support for Israel with “defence for paedophilia”. What happened?