Thomas Massie is a fiscal conservative whose small-government positions are generally defensible, but his approach to legislative obstruction made him ineffective and a target for Trump.

“In fact, if you go back and look at things I've said about Thomas Massie in the past, he's been staunchly small government in ways that I largely support. But, that is not what happened. What actually happened is he decided that he was going to be a gadfly Republican Congressperson”