Massie for President in 2026
The midterms will not save us if Trump and Vance are hellbent on fomenting civil war. We must act now to oust the MAGA regime and install a Republican president who will protect the Constitution.
Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
These are the loving words written by the parents of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was swarmed and shot to death by a pack of DHS agents yesterday morning. Anyone with a heart, a mind, a soul, and eyes that can see who has taken time to watch the video of the altercation that ended Alex Pretti’s life would agree with his parents that their son was a genuine American hero. Alex Pretti died not only to protect our rights as Americans but also because he exercised his own First Amendment right of freedom of assembly and his Second Amendment right to lawfully carry a firearm. If the United States survives long enough for the history of 2026 to be written, Alex Pretti will be remembered as an American hero on par with the victims of the Boston Massacre in 1770, the Union soldiers who held their ground at Gettysburg’s Cemetery Ridge in 1863, and the brave GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944.
Of course, while Alex’s lifeless body was still warm, the Trump Administration was lying about his intentions and slandering his name. Of course, Alex’s death is met with nothing but a chorus of “FAFOs” from the MAGA faithful. To Trump’s followers, “Fucking Around” equates to even the slightest resistance to State power, including the peaceable exercise of rights guaranteed by the Constitution. “Finding Out” is a euphemism for being on the receiving end of an extrajudicial execution perpetrated by unrestrained agents of the State. The perverse moral equation of FAFO that controls the thinking of the MAGA base starts at the very top. The Trump Administration slandered Renee Good as a “domestic terrorist” (thereby unworthy of Constitutional rights) without the slightest investigation of her shooting by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. J.D. Vance declared Ross enjoyed “absolute immunity” from state prosecution after the shooting, effectively sanctioning ICE agents to strip Americans of protections secured by the Bill of Rights and even deny them the Declaration of Independence’s guarantee of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Internal memos show ICE being instructed to enter homes without a judicial warrant, a grotesque and unprecedented violation of the Fourth Amendment right of the people to be free from unnecessary searches and seizures. The position of the Trump Administration is becoming hideously clear: no Constitutional rights are guaranteed to the American people without complete submission to the regime.
There is now no doubt that MAGA is not a wholesome return to traditional American values, but rather the most radical threat ever posed to the Constitutional order that has held our republic together for nearly 250 years. At least the Confederacy seceded from the Union on legal pretexts forged from the Founders’ failure to adequately resolve the “slavery question” during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Southern Segregationists could rely on States’ Rights guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment or Supreme Court rulings like Plessy v. Ferguson. MAGA, on the other hand, has no credible legal justification for laying siege to Minneapolis and stripping its citizens of all Constitutional rights unless they bow down and submit to the commands of masked, heavily armed, untrained, unidentified agents of the State. There is no law and order governing the Trump Administration, just the lust to inflict violence against their perceived political enemies. Trump and Vance have declared war against the American people, and their Administration is the greatest threat to the Constitution in our nation’s history.
The nation must now grapple with the fact that Trump and Vance have committed Treason and are guilty of the highest of High Crimes: murdering innocent Americans for exercising their Constitutional rights. They deserve to be impeached and convicted as enemies of the American people and desecrators of our Constitutional heritage. The only question left to be answered is how to administer such justice with the House and Senate controlled by the Republicans. Complicating the matter further is the fact that the 2026 midterms become less and less likely to be free and fair elections the more the public turns on the Trump regime and shows the desire to install a Democratic majority in Congress. Trump himself has stated openly his anticipation of being impeached if an anticipated blue wave sweeps the country in November. While MAGA’s assault on the Bill of Rights is unprecedented, suppression of voting rights has been a staple of GOP policy throughout their recent history. The presence of heavily armed ICE and Border Control agents swarming the polls in November seems all but inevitable at this point. With a regime acting more and more hellbent on fomenting civil war, we cannot rely on or wait for the midterms to save us.
We must therefore devise a strategy for impeachment and regime change that we can set in motion long before Inauguration Day 2027. Articles of Impeachment require a simple majority vote of the House. Even with the current slim Republican majority of 5 seats, the thought of Trump and Vance being impeached by the House seems outlandish. If the Trump Administration pulls federal forces out of Minnesota and ceases to trample on the Constitutional Rights of Americans, then impeachment will likely be neither possible nor necessary. But the scenario we are sketching out is one where Trump increasingly escalates his oppression of Minneapolis and other cities, flagrantly tearing up the Constitution, stirring flames of insurrection in the streets, and forcing a permanent shutdown of the Federal Government over DHS funding, thereby unleashing a whole new level of social and economic chaos in its wake. As historian John Ganz said after Alex Pretti’s murder, “We’re gonna find out if libertarians are real.” If Trump continues to upend our Constitutional heritage in the coming months, we are going to find out if just 5 of the 218 Republican members of Congress believe at all in defending the Constitution, protecting the Rule of Law, and honoring the principles of limited government.
Even amidst unprecedented oppression of Americans’ Constitutional rights and widespread social upheaval, it will still be a challenge getting an impeachment vote on the floor with spineless Trump sycophant Mike Johnson serving as Speaker of the House. Thankfully, Mike Johnson is one of the weakest, most vulnerable Speakers of the House in American history. If there is enough support within the Republican Party to vote to impeach Trump, there is surely enough support to oust Mike Johnson through a Motion to Vacate.
Think back to your high school Civics class, and you will remember how critical a decision it will be in choosing who will replace Mike Johnson. Assuming President Trump and Vice President Vance could ever be impeached and convicted, the third person in the Presidential Line of Succession to take over the reins as Chief Executive is the Speaker of the House. Whoever becomes House Speaker will not only guide the vote of impeachment charges but also be waiting in the wings as the next President of the United States if Trump and Vance are convicted by the Senate.
So now the most important question of all: what Republican could Democrats and Constitution-respecting GOP members rally around to become the next Speaker of the House and potentially the next President? The logical choice is Trump’s arch-nemesis in the Republican Party, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie. Massie has been a thorn in Trump’s side, working with Democrat Ro Khanna as bipartisan cosponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, one of the few Republicans with the decency to prioritize protecting child victims of sex abuse over the interests of a party leader intimately linked to the global pedophile ring. Massie openly criticized Trump for using military force against Venezuela without Congressional authorization. Most importantly, when seven cowardly House Democrats voted to allow another $10 billion in funding to the DHS despite ICE’s lawless occupation of Minneapolis, Massie was the lone member of the GOP with the moral integrity to vote No on taxpayers ponying up more money to fill Trump’s slush fund for authoritarian violence.
Even if Massie secures the Speakership and successfully leads the House to impeach Trump and Vance, a two-thirds vote by the Senate to convict is undoubtedly still a formidable mountain to climb. Murderous Constitutional violations, social upheaval, and economic collapse would need to reach chilling levels for 16 Republican Senators to turn against Trump, not to mention barely closeted MAGA fanboy John Fetterman on the Democratic side of the aisle. Getting 16 Republicans to flip on Trump may be very tough, but not impossible, given that 5 are retiring in 2027 and another 17 are up for re-election. But the question isn’t whether the conviction of Trump and Vance followed by the installation of Thomas Massie will be easy. The question is whether this nonviolent scheme is easier and simpler than an outright coup of a deranged Trump led by top military brass or civilian guerrillas, installing a new President outside the Constitutional line of succession.
The time is now for even the most progressive Democrats to get behind the Massie Plot and test its feasibility before even entertaining more violently romantic fantasies of Trump’s removal that could leave unimaginable numbers of Americans dead or wounded. Massie is no woke RINO. He is a principled libertarian who walks the walk and believes no man is above the law, especially not the Constitution. Liberal Democrats might not want to look too closely at Massie’s record on issues like abortion, LGBTQ rights, or climate change. Still, the purpose of a Massie presidency would not be the passage of substantive legislation but rather the preservation of our Republic, protection of our Constitutional Rights, and the guarantee of free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028. Moreover, Massie’s policy positions that are seen as liabilities in the eyes of liberals will serve as assets when building coalitions with the Republicans needed to impeach Trump in the House and convict him in the Senate. Even a mere credible threat of a Massie-led GOP insurgency could intimidate Trump into a TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) shift on ICE and Constitutional liberties that he is known for in foreign policy.
Whether they dream of Newsom or AOC, Democrats must realize that there may be no Presidency for their favorite candidates to assume in 2029 without curbing Trump’s power by at least trying to install a new Republican president who will ensure the 2028 elections are free and fair. To protect our Constitutional heritage and honor the sacrifice of American hero Alex Pretti, let’s move quickly to end this national nightmare by starting a Thomas Massie for President campaign in 2026.
Why the hell would we want a Republican when they let their party be overrun by MAGA?