The Kentucky congressman learned the hard way what it means to cross the president. The post The GOP Is About One Man, and It’s Not Massie appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The GOP Is About One Man, and It’s Not Massie The Kentucky congressman learned the hard way what it means to cross the president. The crowd that had gathered to attend the political funeral of Rep. Thomas Massie wasn’t ready to admit defeat. “2028!” shouted the overwhelmingly young group that had turned out on a very hot Tuesday night in Kentucky to watch the man who built his career on defiance wave the white flag. Massie hit all the usual notes, from ending forever wars to vanquishing the accelerating national debt. And he casually smiled while joking about conceding to his primary challenger, Ed Gallrein, by…Open
Antisemitism is so resurgent in U.S. politics that some of the worst hate speech you've ever heard has become a part of day-to-day life for Jewish politicians. The big picture: Gone are the days of veiled insinuations and dog whistles. The hate is direct, explicit and shockingly casual, two dozen members of Congress and candidates told Axios. Editor's note: This story includes graphic and hateful language that was directed at lawmakers and their staff. Readers should be advised. - The antisemitism is inescapable, they say: It's in calls and emails to their offices, comments on social media and is even infiltrating campaign ads. - "Hitler was spot-on, 100% right," one constituent wrote to Jewish Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in a profane…
Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of Hillel International.
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Jeffrey Epstein personally recruited an 18-year-old girl from New York to serve “in one of the elite IDF units,” email records show. Epstein’s request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. In the message, the financier described the girl in question, “Tali,” as an 18-year-old who’d been accepted to Columbia University’s Barnard College and had “been to Israel more than a dozen times.” His young female friend had spent a summer hiking the so-called Israel Trail and another “working as a counselor at a summer camp in Dimona Israel for…Open