re: Massie (an incumbent) lost by 10 points. Sean Davis nails why on X.

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The post argues against itself without realizing how. Voters perceiving him differently shows they changed.

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Democrats and their media arm, as well as SFP, whatever political space he occupies, simply don’t understand the conservative voter. They don’t see the big picture narrative that conservatives, more or less, tend to see.

There’s a certain type of myopic view that keeps them from seeing that Trump is a COUNTER revolutionary. Because he’s effective at countering the progressives, his eccentric and narcissistic personality is tolerated.

If a Republican starts pointing out Trump’s non-p.c. statements or his seeming inconsistency without looking at the bigger picture, then its clear they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture.

That’s why Massie lost favor and why he lost the primary. This is not some mystery that needs to be solved.

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Voters perceiving him differently shows they changed.

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not necessarily. no one can truly know if Massie's internals changed but his actions can demonstrably change, hence the change in perception without a change in the voters

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but his actions can demonstrably change

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Other than the Epstein files, what is there to cite?

His policies didn't change.

Bucking the Trump admin on big government actions didn't change.

TDS is a mental disorder. Massie developed a terminal case of TDS and it destroyed him. Sad to see.

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The rest of society is willing to elect someone who says only 75% of what they agree with, but delivers results.

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This is a literal 180 from October 2023 for MAGA

Kevin McCarthy was ousted for delivering 75% of what he promised and promoting practical legislative philosophy by puritans from MAGA who demanded 100% compliance that was not possible.

i don't know. I'm just challenging the premise that a change in perception means a change in the voters. it assumes a constant on one side of the equation.

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Voters perceiving him differently shows they changed.

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No they just finally saw through the charade

I definitely "perceived" Massie as being more contrarian and out for himself and frankly, odd, of late.

Now, whether that perception is also the product of an orchestrated campaign, I don't know.

I think the reality is that at a time when the SAVE Act made him an easy target, Trump was fully invested in Iran/Israel and the Israel lobby was going hard against him, he looked more and more like a typical guy at a Libertarian convention.

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love the fact that Marxists are upset about this.

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I hope you aren't referencing anyone on this board

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think the reality is that at a time when the SAVE Act made him an easy target, Trump was fully invested in Iran/Israel and the Israel lobby was going hard against him, he looked more and more like a typical guy at a Libertarian convention.

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This is all very likely correct, but doesn't show he himself changed in any way.

That's why what this says moving forward about small government, fiscal responsibility, neoconservatism, etc. Is the important part of the discussion and Massie himself. The individual isn't very important at all. That's what a lot of people who are spiking the football failed to understand because they're doing the whole team-based irrationality and think their team got a victory and that's all they can see and understand.