Massie is a strange character. On one hand, the anti-AIPAC stuff makes him seem genuine. On the other, he endorsed DeSantis (the ultra-neoconservative nevertrumper choice) in 2024's primary, and he eagerly played the heel by opposing the BBB on open borders grounds (even if he hated the bill, he'd have to know that they weren't going to let it pass anyways, so he was burning political capital for nothing). Even the most fanatical true believer libertarian would have to understand at this point that he can get his personal utopia except for open borders or he can get a generic socialist hellhole because the people he let in want and vote for that outcome, so it's hard to assume good faith.
My conspiratorial side feels like his career is set up to try to create a wedge between noninterventionists and immigration restrictionists, and try to associate opposing AIPAC with wanting to let in infinity Guatemalans when, in reality, it's the AIPAC darlings that have always pushed amnesty behind the scenes. If he's sincere individually, then I'd guess that whoever convinced him DeSantis was a good guy is also behind his recent unforced errors. Everything would be so much better for him if he hadn't gone out of his way to burn bridges with the voters most supportive of his message.
Massie is a strange character. On one hand, the anti-AIPAC stuff makes him seem genuine. On the other, he endorsed DeSantis (the ultra-neoconservative nevertrumper choice) in 2024's primary, and he eagerly played the heel by opposing the BBB on open borders grounds (even if he hated the bill, he'd have to know that they weren't going to let it pass anyways, so he was burning political capital for nothing). Even the most fanatical true believer libertarian would have to understand at this point that he can get his personal utopia except for open borders or he can get a generic socialist hellhole because the people he let in want and vote for that outcome, so it's hard to assume good faith.
My conspiratorial side feels like his career is set up to try to create a wedge between noninterventionists and immigration restrictionists, and try to associate opposing AIPAC with wanting to let in infinity Guatemalans when, in reality, it's the AIPAC darlings that have always pushed amnesty behind the scenes. If he's sincere individually, then I'd guess that whoever convinced him DeSantis was a good guy is also behind his recent unforced errors. Everything would be so much better for him if he hadn't gone out of his way to burn bridges with the voters most supportive of his message.