The Kentucky Republican built a movement of his own, and it's one that's not going away.
Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) primary loss on Tuesday was another example of President Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party, according to some political experts. But a new analysis suggests that Massie may get the last laugh against Trump before all is said and done. Ben Jacobs, a political reporter for Slate, wrote in a new column that Massie appears…
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Massie’s voters didn’t really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.
Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.
