JD Vance warned Massie about this JD Vance explained why Thomas Massie keeps creating problems inside the GOP: it is not one vote, one issue, or one disagreement. Vance’s point was that when a member repeatedly votes against the party on major priorities, eventually the party stops backing him. Massie has built his brand on bucking Republican leadership, but in Trump’s Republican Party, that has consequences. The Kentucky primary is now one of the biggest tests of whether the GOP base wants part