The AP reports that the pro-freedom Ron Paul disciple Congressman Thomas Massie has been defeated by Ed Gallrein. For years, Trump has called for Massie’s removal for Congress in response to his insistence on the rule of law and his call for the release of the Epstein Files. The trouble largely began during Trump’s first term when Massie opposed Trump’s efforts to pass Trump’s covid-era budget without a recorded vote in Congress. Trump insisted on the passage of the pork-filled legislation, financed by trillions in monetary inflation, and historically enormous amounts of new government spending, with only a voice vote in Congress. Massie opposed this on constitutional grounds. As a result of Massie’s efforts to adhere to the law, Trump began a long term effort to primary Massie. This was ratcheted up over time by Massie’s opposition to Trump’s fanatical Zionism, and by Massie’s leading the campaign to release the Epstein files.
In an effort to protect pedophiles from prosecution, and to spend trillions more on Israeli war criminals, Trump engineered a coalition of American pro-Israel billionaires and Epstein apologists to fund a massive media blitz in favor of Gallrein as a replacement for Massie. The effort worked, and largely succeeded due to a focus on elderly voters who consistently favor whatever Fox News tells them to. For example, polls showed that Massie was overwhelmingly favored by voters under the age of 56. Among the over-65 GOP voters—i.e., people who relentlessly live off the sweat of current wage earners through Medicare and Social Security—the support swung heavily in favor of Gallrein.
Of course, the rank-and-file Trump supporters did their work as stooges for the regime and enthusiastically claimed everywhere in social media that Massie was some sort obstacle to the Trump domestic agenda. This was never even true, as can be seen in the fact that Trump’s preferred policies of runway federal spending, off-the-charts deficits, and inflationary easy money are all firmly in place. And while domestic policy played a role, the Anti-Massie campaign, funded by wealthy corners of the Israel lobby, was primarily about foreign policy. This election was really about Epstein and Israel, although the average Trump supporter lacks the observational skills to see this.
At any rate, the campaign worked, and now the anti-Massie voters will get what they wanted: a pro-Israel, pro-federal, pro-welfare, pro-war, and pro-Epstein Congressman who will never question federal power or the status quo. The defeat of Massie also helps illustrate how regime apologists are so devoted to the relentless augmentation of federal power—and the Israeli lobby—that they will not brook even a single member of Congress who works consistently to question and undermine the current narrative favored by the governing elites and the foreign policy blob in Washington.
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