Matt Bernstein

So of course, of course, Jews would end up being one too.

In the wake of Candace Owens' breakup with Benny Boy Shapiro, she goes nuclear on Jews, soaking up her newfound ability to do so without consequences.

She begins singing the praises of Nick Fuentes.

She blames, there's like a lot of things she said about the Jews.

I can't list all of them.

I also don't want to, but a few are that she blames Jews for sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

I don't really know how that one worked.

She said that Sigmund Freud and Stalin, who she incorrectly labeled as Jewish, were part of a Jewish cabal.

She said that JFK was assassinated by AIPAC.

And in that way, she is always weaving her anti-Israel sentiment with anti-Semitic sentiment.

Well, and this is the thing.

She always is saying both of these sort of anti-Zionist things and the anti-Semitic things like in the same breath in a way that makes it really hard to.

To disentangle and like she was saying really anti-Semitic stuff, but I agree that like she could have just been, for example, like calling it genocide and Ben Shapiro would have fired her.

Ben Shapiro can say, you know, anti-Semitism is bad and he's right about some of the things that she was saying.

But ultimately, working at Ben Shapiro's company will not give you room to criticize Israel.

And that's what she was doing.

So outside of this kind of stuff, one of Candace's first big beats after Ben Shapiro fires her is her crusade against Blake Lively in the legal battle that she had with Justin Baldoni.

Taylor, could you explain just a little bit about like how Candace used the anti-Blake Lively crusade to become president of the misogyny slop ecosystem?

Yes.

And sort of her pivot from like conservative recruitment through hard politics and like talking about political issues to this sort of like cultural news celebrity gossip thing that she got into.