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I will say that Massie losing was clearly his own doing. No one worked harder to get him out of office than Thomas Massie. He simply stopped trying to do his job and represent his constituents and work within the framework of our political system to push his ideas and agendas forward. He chose to go on a self-destructive mission, that often times looked to be driven more by personal qualms than any sort of principles.

Yep.

And it is truly disappointing to see he be this instead of the person you wanted him to be.

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Posted by jrodLSUke

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 5:09 pm to epbart

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I can't help but wonder if his previous wife might've had a better grounding effect on him, or if he sort of went off the rails when she died, or the new girlfriend/wife was a bad influence (relative to how he comported himself).

Massie's wife died in 2024, right around the same time Massie was running for reelection. It seems he took it personally and, since then, Massie has been openly feuding with Republicans and Trump. That, combined with his ego and Massie thinking that he was unbeatable, he went off the rails and self-destructed both professionally and privately.

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Posted by TigerAxeOK

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 5:24 pm to burger bearcat

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This goes back to the classic problem with libertarianism. It’s great at offering critiques of existing policies. But absolutely terrible at coming up with concrete action plans “that will actually work in reality” on how to get their agenda passed.

This is mainly why I won't identify as Libertarian, though there are certainly a lot of Libertarian ideas with which I agree.

If there were just a "reset button" to completely start over and adopt many of the Libertarian ideologies and ideas, it would be feasible. But there are too many systems in place that need to be dismantled slowly to be less painful, as opposed to just cutting the tourniquets and rebuilding from the carnage that would immediately follow.

Now in all honesty, I think the only way to completely fix things is to cut the tourniquets all at once, but the pain felt by all Americans would be immense, so it gives me pause.

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