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The Leftist media is fawning over Massie and are in overdrive to protect him.

Trying to play semantical games doesn’t change that. Mother Jones didn’t post that and highlight that to be unflattering to Massie. You are making a distinction without a difference...also conveniently ignoring everything else highlighted in this post.

He does whatever China tells him.

Here's the thing, though: Massie is seen by Dems as a useful wedge against Trump, precisely because Trump's animus emerges from three things: Massie voted against the Save Our Workers Bill in 2020 (a multi-trillion dollar stimulus package, which—although it passed in spite of Massie's no vote—he called for Congress to vote in person so it would actually be on the record). The second is that he voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill (because, among other things, it raised the debt ceiling by $5 trillion), which was in line with how Massie voted on prior such bills. The third is because Massie got real agitated by the Epstein Files (which is something that has broad support with voters across all parties, not least of which because it's something Trump drew attention to in the 2024 campaign).

That was enough for Trump to unleash his usual brand of invective against Massie: a "major sleazebag", "Worst Republican Congressman in History", and so on. It's also why he had no issue endorsing an empty suit (skipped every debate, touts endorsements from unnamed military officers, declines to give details about his background because "it's classified", etcetera) like Ed Gallrein (who coincidentally seems to have scrubbed 3 years, and his time with an NGO in Bangladesh of all places from his LinkedIn profile), simply because Ed vowed loyalty to Trump.

Massie's long-standing isolationism has likewise manifested against our operations against Iran, which is yet another stick in Trump's craw.

Here's the thing though: Trump didn't have to try and gin up an opponent against Massie. He was a safe Republican district that votes Trump's way 9 times out of 10.

But now we have a situation where Trump has thrown chum into the water, because he could not countenance the wound on his ego. It's the most expensive House primary campaign in American history, and the pro-Israel lobby (which is another fraught topic, as geopolitical support for that country is waning amongst younger generations across both parties) senses that they can get a scalp by ousting Massie.

The Dems, sensing an opportunity, have decided to push for someone they otherwise ideologically and politically oppose solely because he's been cast as "anti-Trump". That's it.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows at times.

But who was the one that first decided that Massie was anti-Trump?

Why, that would be Trump himself.