Trump's AIPAC-Funded Political Execution of Thomas Massie: The Day MAGA Destroyed itself! |
Trump’s AIPAC-Funded Political Execution of Thomas Massie: The Day MAGA Destroyed itself!
Political victories achieved through strict party discipline and powerful financial support often result in a deepening of internal divisions, the consequences of which only become noticeable over time.
At 26, I jumped into the rough-and-tumble world of Eastern Kentucky politics, running for County Judge-Executive in Booneville, deep in Republican-dominated Owsley County. I finished fourth in a six-person race, chasing the dream of becoming the local “Boss Hogg” in one of the poorest counties east of the Mississippi.
The irony was impossible to miss: a county was heavily dependent on Great Society programs, yet fiercely loyal to the Republican Party. Now, the fallout from Massie’s loss could mark a turning point far bigger than Kentucky itself. What once looked like a united MAGA movement is showing signs of fracture, with ideological warfare breaking out inside Republican ranks, and, more ominously for the Israel lobby, a fracture strongly on generational lines.
Donald Trump is Proud of Himself!
Chicken Little or banty rooster — either way, Donald Trump is crowing loud after unloading on Thomas Massie, branding the Kentucky congressman “disloyal, ungracious, and sanctimonious,” while calling him “the worst Republican congressman in the history of our party.”
Classic Trump: loyalty above all, dissent punished publicly and relentlessly!
But Massie’s backers see something entirely different. To them, his real offense was independence — a willingness to break ranks and vote with his conscience rather than bend the knee to Trump-style political intimidation. Supporters argue that Massie represented one of the last strains of old-school constitutional conservatism inside a Republican Party increasingly driven by personality cult politics and ideological purity tests regarding loyalty to Israel and Zionism.
One headline from The Nation may prove prophetic: Massie’s defeat could come back to haunt Trump and the MAGA establishment, who are now celebrating victory. What looks like a triumph today may deepen the fractures already splitting........