The death card for the GOP?

Veteran journalist Julie Mason pulls tarot cards on the political future

This may seem a little kooky but last week, in preparation for the long Memorial Day weekend, I reached out to veteran journalist Julie Mason, not just for her sharp political analysis, but for a reading into the future. In addition to hosting The Julie Mason Show on SiriusXM POTUS Politics, Mason reads tarot cards.

“I used to go to her instead of therapy,” a mutual friend texted me after listening to the latest episode of The Tara Palmeri Show, which you can listen to Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Mason offers her clairvoyance to political people, staffers, reporters—or as Mason likes to say, “a lot of randos.” Sure it’s silly, but who can really resist learning about their future? I had to ask her about what awaits my new media venture.

After all, astrologer Joan Quigley read the stars to the Reagan administration, giving technical advice like when he should schedule foreign trips or hold a press conference. After long hours on the phone with Nancy Reagan, she took credit for softening Reagan’s stance on Russia.

Mason pulls cards on the futures of the GOP’s shiniest stars—JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Mike Lawler, and Thomas Massie. What does their political destiny hold?

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She also makes a bold claim about the midterms and flips a wild card—“The Ace of Swords”—that may mean wreckage for the GOP that leads to a reset: “There's going to be something sort of vicious in circulation around the midterms and circulating around the Republicans,” Mason said. “Something that bubbles up from things that people are talking about. You know, that kind of gets into the political bloodstream. I think it's going to be