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Hebron, Kentucky\u2014<\/strong>On election night here, Thomas Massie was repeatedly and loudly cheered by jubilant supporters who urged him to run for president. With a broad smile, he took in the scene and basked in the adulation of a crowd that viewed him as a hero. Massie even chugged a celebratory glass of raw milk.<\/p>\n

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There was only one thing truly odd about all of it. He lost.<\/p>\n

With over 95 percent of precincts reporting, Massie\u2014the incumbent in the Republican primary in this House district in northern Kentucky\u2014lost by margin of 55 percent to 45 percent, defeated in a district he\u2019d held almost effortlessly since he first cruised to victory in a special election in 2012.<\/p>\n

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Massie\u2019s race was comparatively close, considering the fates of other Republicans who had defied Trump. Only three days before, two-term Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy finished third in his primary bid for re-election, earning less than 25 percent of the vote after Trump had denounced him for supporting the president\u2019s impeachment in 2021. The Kentucky incumbent had built his own quirky libertarian brand over the years which endeared him to many on the right. Unlike most other Republicans who Trump had tried to oust in primary challenges, it was hard to characterize Massie as a RINO.<\/p>\n

Nominally, Massie was defeated by Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL and failed state senate candidate who now, thanks to the district\u2019s deep-red nature, is a shoo-in to win a House seat in November. But Massie\u2019s real opponent in the race was Donald Trump. His repeated defiance of Trump and Republican leadership on matters great and small had made him persona non grata with the MAGA-era GOP. It also alienated voters in the district who had long supported him. For them, his repeated insistence on breaking with the GOP left them wanting a party regular in his stead.<\/p>\n

Kelly Hall had a long goatee and was wearing a t-shirt with the slogan \u201cGovernment Watch List\u201d when he went to vote on Tuesday. The Hebron, Kentucky resident told Slate<\/em> he had voted for Ed Gallrein because he \u201cwanted to try something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former Massie supporter, Hall said the incumbent \u201cwas sneaking around with the Democrats and doing that stuff. You can have your opinion on this and that, but it\u2019s life and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

He specifically cited Massie\u2019s teaming with Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, on the Epstein Files. Hall thought the files named people who just happened to be there incidentally, which the voter described as \u201chorrible.\u201d Hall added \u201chim voting against border walls and all the stuff that\u2019s common sense, you got to go man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Ruhland of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky told Slate <\/em>that he thought Massie \u201cwas being a contrarian just to be a contrarian.\u201d He added \u201cI think he\u2019s searching for an MSNBC gig.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Massie\u2019s resistance to Trump, doomed though it ultimately was, owes less to any support from the MSNBC set as it does to a new, emerging faction of the right. It\u2019s a coalition similar to that which powered Ron Paul to national attention in 2008 and 2012 that is composed of those on the hard right who have been disenchanted with Trump and those more libertarian minded Republicans who have never been natural allies of the president. After all, where Trump has launched a conflict with Iran, the crowd at Massie\u2019s concession speech chanted \u201cAmerica First, America First\u201d and \u201cNo War, No War.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They also shouted \u201cEnd The Fed\u201d and a copy of Ron Paul\u2019s book of that name was waved in the air prominently along with Massie signs and American flags.<\/p>\n

Massie also openly criticized Trump, taking a shot at the president\u2019s plans to build a White House ballroom. \u201cWhile gas is almost $5 a gallon and diesel is almost $6, they\u2019re talking about this big ballroom\u2026It looks like the Roman Empire. I see a few analogies there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Moehring of Hebron was a Massie voter who was reflective of this faction. Walking out of the polling place holding his son, Moehring said of Trump: \u201cI loved him in 2016, but I don\u2019t like him now.\u201d The Kentucky voter cited \u201call of the influence that AIPAC has on our government,\u201d name-checking the pro-Israel lobby group. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s run by the American people,\u201d he said as he explained his support for Massie and disenchantment with Trump. He also cited the incumbent\u2019s libertarian views.<\/p>\n

Long after Massie left the stage, the mood around the hotel where his election night party was held stayed cheery. The open bar with beer and wine stayed open. Even if the free pizza was gone, attendees were still lining up for pretzel bites and beer cheese.<\/p>\n

It may have represented the end of Massie\u2019s stint in Congress, but it also may represent the coalescing of a new faction in Republican politics. Along with the usual assortment of local Kentucky supporters, the crowd at Massie\u2019s election night included an eclectic mix. There were a score of influencers who had come around the country to support his campaign, there were Libertarians stopping in Kentucky on their way to their party\u2019s national convention in Michigan, there were also figures like former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes floating around.<\/p>\n

Like the Ron Paul coalition it resembles (and shares a lot of crossover with), it may not be more than a loud minority within the GOP, bigger on podcasts than in legislatures.\u00a0 But it does represent the potential nucleus of a new point of resistance to the Trumpist establishment in the GOP, one that harkens back not so much a Reaganesque past, but to a future where voters can drink raw milk while being transported in their self-driving Teslas. At a moment when Trump has seemingly quashed all dissent with the party, successfully ousting both Massie and Cassidy in less than a week, it signifies a potential new fissure opening within the GOP.<\/p>\n

And for those at Massie\u2019s election night, that seemed as much worth celebrating as anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

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