Here we go again. In a run to assuage his ego — heck he might even think it was his own idea — Dr. Cornel West has decided to run for President in the National People’s Party. (Update — he’s trying to get the Green nomination because they’re on the ballot in 48 [edit 21 states] instead of just 3 for the NPP.) It wasn’t enough that he had a personal vendetta against President Barack Obama and Al Sharpton:
“Al Sharpton Is Obama's House Negro - Following the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington in August, West had nothing good to say about Al Sharpton, whose National Action Network was instrumental in the anniversary events. West said the events were "the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton."
(I want to vomit just quoting that) and this gem:
“Obama Obsessed With Being on Mount Rushmore” - Remember the President Obama face on Mount Rushmore rumor? Cornel West does. “I think at this point he’s obsessed with being on Mount Rushmore, he wants to be a great figure in the pantheon of American presidents," West told the Financial Times in May 2012.
Yesterday on Facebook:
“The Democratic Party is a party of war and Wall Street targeting Russia and China.” — Cornel West
To be perfectly clear, West also supported Nader against Al Gore. The Nation continues:
West never apologized. He didn’t see a third party playing a spoiler role to Democrats as bad—obviously, since he’s about to do it again. He did support Barack Obama in 2008, but he turned on him fairly quickly, making criticisms that went way beyond Obama’s political decisions. Then he supported Jill Stein in 2016. More recently, West has gone off the deep end. He promoted his 2024 candidacy, on the fringe People’s Party line, with an appearance on former comedian Russell Brand’s Web show, now frequented by right-wingers. And weeks ago, he praised Florida’s extremist governor, Ron DeSantis, in The Wall Street Journal, “for his revolutionary defense of the classics.”
Briahna Joy Gray and Cornel West.
Oy. I do not understand the amount of ego / narcissism that it takes to run as a spoiler.
Ditto.