Thomas Massey goes down. Will the Republican Party ever be the same? And the Democrats botched their

autopsy. We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Larry. And I'm joined,

as always by our old friend Dan Foster, the grill master, Phil Klein, and the good neighbor, Noah Rothman.

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I said anything.

So Dan Foster, we had this epic battle for the soul of the Republican Party in this Kentucky

primary Thomas Massey's district.

He goes down to really, no offense, but kind of a political non-entity,

at least, Ed Galrine, former Navy SEAL and Farmer.

It wasn't much in evidence on the campaign trail.

The race was all about Massey.

Trump had targeted him in a huge way.

And as we've seen just across the landscape, when Trump goes after you, you go down.

Pretty much always.

There was at least one state senator, my friend Greg Goode, maybe another.

I didn't follow up in that other race, but almost all the Indiana state centers who didn't do the redistricting.

Trump wanted to go down.

Bill Cassidy goes down. Actually, third place in Louisiana primary. Massey goes down as well.

Now, Massey and his supporters want to say this was basically a kind of Jewish conspiracy against him and shows there's been a hostile neocon takeover of Donald Trump and the Republican

Party. What do you make of it?

Well, I'm probably a bad guy to go to first on this because I have kind of a contrarian

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