Oops: Establishment Republicans hate Thomas Massie so much they donated to a fringe racist primary challenger

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Rep. Liz Cheney has some serious egg on her face.

The Wyoming Republican and establishment leader recently lashed out against her colleague, Rep. Thomas Massie, after the libertarian-leaning Kentucky congressman attempted to force Congress to do its job and show up for an on-the-record vote for the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill that was just passed. For the apparently egregious crime of asking Cheney to show up to work — you know, just like Congress is asking millions of people in essential industries to do — she, along with other establishment Republicans such as Rep. Mike Turner, decided to donate to Massie’s primary challenger.

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