Trump Coalition Tested in Kentucky Vote
The future viability of the Trump coalition is on the line when votes are cast on May 19 to choose the nominee in the Republican primary in the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky. The incumbent is Thomas Massie, who was first elected to Congress as a traditional conservative Republican in 2012. Massie had been a loyal Trump supporter during the President’s first term, committed to the idea behind Trump’s MAGA Movement (Make America Great Again). MAGA opposed the Permanent Wars supported by Presidents of both parties, arguing that the procession of wars served no American interests, thus wasting taxpayer’s dollars and American lives. Trump campaigned in 2016 and again in 2024 as an antiwar candidate.
But that changed in his second term, with Trump continuing to provide weapons and money to Ukraine and Israel. Massie objected to this change, as did an increasing proportion of Trump supporters, leading a drive against the wars underway. While Trump made some minimal efforts to cut off Ukraine, he not only increased the funds and weapons flow to Israel, but became a partner of Greater Israel war criminal Netanyahu in launching a war against Iran, in violation of the War Powers Act, which required Congressional approval to engage in war.
Massie not only objected to Trump’s support for the Zionist extremist ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but to the Zionist Lobby which provided funds, weapons and political cover to the Greater Israel fanatics, Massie joined with Democrat Ro Khanna to challenge the funding of war.
