

Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/REUTERS
Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/REUTERS
Some of the last remaining GOP holdouts hail from the same state.
First published in The Atlantic on June 28, 2025
by Russell Berman, The Atlantic
July 3, 2025 | reading time: 12 Min.
Donald Trump’s least favorite House Republican, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, likes to do an exaggerated impression of the president. As he recounted a long-ago phone call from Trump before a crowd of supporters in his district, Massie dropped the register of his voice to an octave resembling Yogi Bear’s. “It started out with: I’m more libertarian than you are,” Massie said. “And it ended with: Well, you’re going to get a primary if you vote for this.”