Some in my audience won’t like what I have to say about Thomas Massie’s campaign, but it’s the truth.
Important note: I have always vehemently opposed AIPAC and all foreign groups who influence American politics. There is a sentiment among the antizionists on the right that if you don’t blame the Jews for everything, then you must be “Israel First”. Reality for me and a whole lot of patriots out there is that we don’t really care much about Israel and we do not obsess over the tiny nation like the “woke right” does. With that said, they weren’t the reason Thomas Massie lost. I’ve always supported Massie, but he ran a bad campaign and chose an anti-Trump course instead of a purely principled liberty-conservative course. That’s one of the reasons he lost.
Thomas Massie is out, and the autopsy is already being written in his name. AIPAC did it. The Israel lobby did it. Foreign money came into Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District and bought a seat from a principled libertarian who refused to bend the knee to a hostile foreign government. That is the story Massie told on his way out, the story Tucker Carlson is telling now, and the story that will calcify into movement lore if no one bothers to check it against reality.
They ignore the fact that AIPAC and the Israel lobby supported Bill Cassidy with his third-place finish and John Cornyn’s likely upcoming loss as well, but we’ll get to that later.
Reality says something different from the current bellyaching “woke right” narratives. Massie didn’t lose to AIPAC. Massie lost to Massie. The pro-Israel ad spending was real, the negative coverage was real, and the personal scandals were real. But each of those is a symptom of a deeper problem the congressman spent years cultivating and refused to address until the moment voters handed him his pink slip. Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and three-time Bronze Star recipient, beat him by ten points in the most expensive House primary in American history. That margin was not bought. It was earned.