Thomas Massie Is One of a Vanishing Breed: A Republican Who Will Stand Up to Trump

By Katherine Mangu-Ward

Ms. Mangu-Ward is the editor in chief of Reason.

Thomas Massie — the Republican congressman from Kentucky’s Fourth District — is an M.I.T.-trained engineer, inventor, cattle farmer, libertarian, deficit hawk and skeptic of foreign aid and foreign wars. He is also, in the view of President Trump, “a complete and total disaster” who should be removed from office as soon as possible.

Their falling-out wasn’t a forgone conclusion. Mr. Massie votes........

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