He broke the one real rule of the MAGA Republican Party.
The Kentucky Republican built a movement of his own, and it's one that's not going away.
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.
Massie’s voters didn’t really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.
The results cut against the idea that there is a ravenous market for his brand of anti-Trump right-wing populism.
