Is Candace Owens crazy like a fox or crazy like a psychopath? She appears to have developed a huge online audience for several varieties of insanity on her pocast. That’s quite an accomplishment. However, she will beat a retreat when called on one or another variety of her insane bull. That would suggest she is crazy like a fox. On the other hand, she obviously has no capacity for shame or embarrasment. Her evident lack of a social conscience makes me lean toward crazy like a psychopath.
Last week Matt Taibbi undertook a critique in his subscribers-only Racket News column “Candace Owens, Great American Basket Case” (“With a set of boulders bigger than Brigitte Macron’s, Candace Owens is single-handedly restoring pride in American conspiracy-theory craftsmanship”). As he frequently does with his best stuff, Taibbi has now had his column read into the record by Jared Moore on YouTube and the usual podcast platforms. Something’s happening here…
