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<\/p>\nTom Woods<\/p>\n
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The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.<\/p>\n
Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn\u2019t repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?<\/p>\n
The Boomers \u2014 with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda \u2014 gave their answer.<\/p>\n
Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.<\/p>\n
Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger \u2014 and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin \u2014 but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.<\/p>\n
Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that\u2019s why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there\u2019s Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don\u2019t believe you that this is a question of Massie\u2019s voting record (which is stellar, by the way).<\/p>\n
Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:<\/p>\n
A patriot who values his country\u2019s sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.<\/p>\n
Even if for some reason you don\u2019t like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.<\/p>\n
These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky \u2014 Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.<\/p>\n
Put up a nonentity like \u201cEd Gallrein\u201d who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.<\/p>\n
But the rest of us understand.<\/p>\n
Can you imagine \u201cEd Gallrein\u201d leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn \u201cvaccine\u201d!<\/p>\n
Remember, too, that the folks who voted for \u201cEd Gallrein\u201d tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.<\/p>\n
But the younger generations, who don\u2019t get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren\u2019t going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers \u2014 and therein lies hope.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n
If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you\u2019d think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n
Not that you\u2019d know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, \u201cEd Gallrein\u201d left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.<\/p>\n
But since we\u2019re not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.<\/p>\n
As Glenn Greenwald put it, \u201cIf the AIPAC\/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous.\u201d<\/p>\n
I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.<\/p>\n
The polls show that this situation won\u2019t exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that\u2019s obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.<\/p>\n
Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.<\/p>\n
Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don\u2019t always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.<\/p>\n
For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember \u201cEd Gallrein,\u201d not even as the answer to a trivia question.<\/p>\n