I used to think I was a conservative.
Then I watched both teams march to the same drum on the same wars, the same omnibus bills, the same surveillance state, the same protection of the same people. The jersey changes. The vote tally never does.
That’s why I watch Thomas Massie.
You don’t have to agree with every Massie position to recognize what he is. He’s the lone “no” on bills nobody is allowed to read. He’s the vote that exposes what unanimous consent is actually hiding. He’s the one Republican who boycotted Netanyahu’s address to Congress and called it political theater. He was right.
Right now AIPAC’s super PAC and a billionaire funded outfit calling itself MAGA Kentucky have poured millions into removing him. Paul Singer. Miriam Adelson. A foreign lobby’s vendors. AI-generated hotel-room smears. A deepfake of him with AOC and Omar. They’re spending like this because he won’t vote for someone else’s war.
His primary is May 19. He may lose his seat for telling the truth about an undeclared war and a lobby that owns most of his colleagues. He’s also the rare member of Congress who understands Bitcoin, came up through MIT, and never needed a consultant to teach him what a constitution is.
A man who will lose his seat before he sells it is rare. Increasingly rare. Worth watching, regardless of party.
Especially when there is no party.
