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Massie's Detractors Still Pretend the Israel Lobby Doesn't Exist
• https://libertarianinstitute.org, by Jack HunterWhy? For some, this remains a grand mystery.
It was a mystery, apparently, for The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles after the primary runoff defeat of Senator John Cornyn in Texas. Knowles posted:
Why did the Israel lobby remove Cornyn? That is the key to understanding all these primary upsets, right?
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 27, 2026
To which comedian, libertarian and Jewish-American Dave Smith replied with the-most-obvious-observation-in-the-world to anyone who has remotely paid attention to these races:
Who actually said it's the key to understanding all of these primaries? Oh yeah, no one.
— Dave Smith (@ComicDaveSmith) May 27, 2026
It's the key to understanding Thomas Massie's primary where the Lobby pumped in more money than has ever been spent in a congressional race in US history. https://t.co/sLeMtzyTry
But how could this be? Pro-Israel interests pouring millions of dollars into one particular Republican primary race where the target has a long history of vehemently being against Israel's wars, his own country's involvement in them, and sending billions of American dollars to fund them?
And Donald Trump's mad at him at a time when Israel lobby interests and the president's line up nicely?
Still, how could anyone ever think such a thing?
