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By secret ballot, a bruised house GOP picked Jim Jordan over Steve Scalise. Both ran for Speaker in 2023 and both came up short. So what was Jim’s pitch to the conference this time around? Apparently, he’s “battle-tested on the oversight front” and knows “the Democrats’ playbook.” His job, as he described it to colleagues, is to defend the president, his family, and his administration from the investigations coming in January. He’s not up to the task. The choice to make Jim Jordan minority leader says a lot about the total lack of reflection in the GOP. This is the guy who founded the Freedom Caucus. He defied a subpoena from the January 6th committee. He once told Anderson Cooper he had never heard the president lie. If you asked voters to draw a picture of what they turned down last week, a lot of them would draw Jim Jordan. For the next two years, Republicans have a choice to make. They can break with the president and start earning back the people who left them in the dust. Or they can hunker down, circle the wagons, and shield Trump against the tide of LONG-OVERDUE accountability coming his way. Picking Jim Jordan to lead the way tells you which direction they are headed. They are going all in on MAGA, once again. RIP GOP.