I don’t pay any attention to what people say.
I pay attention to what people do.
And anyone else who has been paying attention to what West actually did when in Congress - voting for all the corporatism, all the consolidation of federal power, and all the outrageous budgets, there is just one term in mind when I hear someone suggest he should be in public office.
“Coalition-breaking”. People like West and Gingrich are poison pills which will cause large parts of the political coalition that put Trump into office to flee.
It wasn’t neocon retreads like those two who defeated the Clintons. It was despite them that this came to pass.