Thomas Massie for president, says Twitter’s Jack Dorsey
Do you remember Jack Dorsey? He was the founder of Twitter, and exited the company long before Elon Musk acquired the social media site and renamed it Of course, what we didn’t quite know at the time was that Twitter faced enormous pressure from government agencies to moderate content — and that even liberal Twitter employees were secretly uneasy about what the government wanted them to do.
The problem wasn’t the webmasters, or Jack Dorsey: it was the controversy.
Well, in the years since Twitter went X — and became a very different place — Jack Dorsey has stayed relatively out of the political arena. But he resurfaces from time to time, and yesterday, he made a very bold political statement: Thomas Massie for President!
Most of you know that Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is a libertarian-leaning Republican who has sometimes clashed with President Trump because not only does he support the America First policy, but he actually votes to implement the America First policy. This makes him different from most other elected Republicans, who are often unprincipled.
Massie has continued to pursue the Jeffrey Epstein revelations even as many other prominent Republicans have lost interest in promoting the kind of transparency they had pledged to promote if they returned to power. Massey also questions the possibility of the United States being drawn into foreign conflicts, whether with Iran or Venezuela. He knows that an administration demanding broad new powers to issue tariffs will hurt workers and small businesses.
In other words, he’s my type of Republican. He is not an unthinking partisan, nor does he automatically side with or against Trump. It has an ideological core that matches our founders: limited government, free markets, and civil liberties.
It is unfortunate that he is not running for president. In his response to Dorsey, he wrote on
Isn’t that nice? Right now, there are only Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House of Representatives and Rand Paul in the Senate. By the way, Paul had a perfect explanation for why he didn’t support either the Republicans’ plan or the Democrats’ plan to fund the government. Let’s watch:
“The way I look at these votes is they determine the level of spending. So the legislation doesn’t say, ‘Do you want to keep the government closed or keep it open?’ … Even though I’m not with the Democrats, I didn’t vote for the Democratic spending bill, and I didn’t vote for the Republican spending bill because the spending levels lead to a huge deficit. The Republican bill would result in a deficit of $2 trillion next year, and the Democrats bill a $3 trillion deficit, so I oppose both.
But of course, independent thinkers like Bull and Massey are not celebrated for their loyalty to principles. They are under attack! Massie in particular has drawn Trump’s ire, and the president has even endorsed a major rival to Massie, despite the fact that that rival has not yet entered the race.
And of course, AIPAC targeted Massey and spent money against him, on charges of believing that America First means putting America first, not Israel first. Massey opposes financial aid to a country with a lower debt-to-GDP ratio than ours. How dare we?
The attacks on these three – Massie, Paul, and MTG – only show that there is no reward for consistency in Washington, DC. The swamp is keen to sublimate unconventional politicians and force them to submit to the Democratic establishment or the Republican establishment. As for me, I’m with Jack.
Robbie Soave co-hosts the commentary show “Rising” on The Hill and is a senior editor at Reason Magazine. This column is an edited version of his daily commentary.
