[ Editorial ] The United States Reaches for a Third Path
The realignment of America's political landscape is well underway — and it is, above all, a generational matter. Rough, very rough times ahead for the establishment.
The pro-Israel lobby has thus succeeded in defeating Thomas Massie in the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th congressional district, where he had held his seat without interruption since 2012. We will not speculate on potential fraud, including in mail-in voting.
This was the most expensive primary in American history. No less than $32 million was poured into Political Action Committees — among them MAGA KY (funded by three pro-Israel Jewish American billionaires, the same figures who contributed to financing the White House ballroom Trump had long desired), the United Democracy Project (an offshoot of AIPAC, the leading pro-Israel lobby in the United States), and the Republican Jewish Committee for Victory. The goal: to install Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL whose track record is, in his own words, extraordinary — but one he cannot speak to, as it remains classified.
Thomas Massie, a mechanical engineer with an MIT degree, belongs to the libertarian wing of the Republican Party. Though he backed Trump in 2024, he opposed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July 2025 on the grounds that it amounted to a spending bonanza driving the deficit to record levels.
Alongside Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, Massie shepherded through — by a unanimous vote minus one — legislation compelling the Trump administration to release the complete Epstein files, implicating primarily heavyweight figures within the American Jewish elite, among them current Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Thomas Massie has consistently voted against military and financial aid to Israel. He also banned AIPAC from accessing his offices and staff from his very first term.
He had long been in the crosshairs of the pro-Israel lobby. He unsettles a great many people. He will not be able to run again under the Republican banner in next November’s midterms, but remains in Congress until next January, free to exercise his mandate without constraint.
