President Trump’s successful dispatch of Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican gadfly, came quickly as no surprise. Massie was all but doomed to lose Tuesday night’s primary the moment Trump endorsed his opponent, Ed Gallrein.
Massie’s passionate libertarian following has an outsized presence on social media, where his splashy but inconsequential brand of politics finds a natural home. He enjoyed playing David versus Goliath, and to his credit, Massie played his part to the end. Well, almost. On primary day, he came under fire from Trump for making it appear as if he still had Trump’s endorsement, when he did not.
That endorsement flew out the window when Massie became a useful idiot to the left, opting to find common ground with Democrats on the grossly exaggerated Epstein scandal, which turned into a frenzy last summer that led nowhere conclusive. Democrats gleefully embraced Massie’s support in the witch hunt, along with that of MAGA defector Marjorie Taylor Greene, who shares Massie’s obsession with conspiracies over partisan confrontation.
Since breaking free from Trump’s “grip” and taking flight on a philosophical journey, Greene has dared to ask whether Trump staged the assassination attempt against him in Butler, a question being posed by some of our “friends” on the left. Like the Epstein brainworm, the idea that Trump is masterfully orchestrating attempts on his life, apparently every couple of months, has become something of a popular delusion. It is easy to see why liberals may choose to believe this nonsense, but why anyone on the right should bother is a mystery. Anyway, such is the “threat” Marjorie Taylor Greene poses to the system.
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