Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon ponders one high-profile congressman’s electoral loss.
President Donald Trump, his allies, and the United States of America prevailed on Tuesday as Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) lost his primary race to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and fifth-generation dairy farmer. The Associated Press called the race for Gallrein roughly an hour after polls closed, with Massie poised to lose by double digits.
“I’m going to win,” Massie told CBS News on Monday. Instead, he’ll join disgraced former Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.), Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.), and Cori Bush (D., Mo.) as the latest fringe agitator and antisemite to endure an involuntary early retirement. As gracious as ever in defeat, Massie apologized to supporters for letting them down. Just kidding, he blamed the Jews. “I would’ve come out sooner,” he said, “but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”
An acolyte of the irrelevant Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.)—who we’re pretty sure is no longer serving (but couldn’t be bothered to check)—Massie had invited the challenge with his increasingly obnoxious behavior. In addition to voting against Trump’s top priorities, Massie stoked the delusions of right-wing (and left-wing) cranks by posing as a righteous crusader against Jewish-backed deep state conspiracies. He also invited them to his house for good measure, and looked on as a PAC supporting his campaign ran one of the most bizarre and blatantly antisemitic ads in recent memory featuring what the legacy media described as an “unexplained” rainbow Star of David. We’re pretty sure we can explain it.
These fans of the soon-to-be-former congressman (and other lunatics) will now be tasked with determining which supernatural force bears more blame for Massie’s defeat—Donald Trump or the Jews? A rhetorical question, of course. As the antisemites have certainly realized by now, even someone as handsome and powerful as Trump is not impervious to Jewish influence.
