https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/10\/18\/gop-party-house-speaker-00122371<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“\u201cThis is a political-leaning conference right now, not a policy-leaning conference,\u201d Ryan told me. Which makes sense, he added, because \u201cour party is a populist-leaning party right now, not a policy-leaning party.\u201d
\nIn this sense, there\u2019s some logic to Jordan ascending to lead Republicans in the House, the body which best reflects the sentiments of the GOP\u2019s Trumpified rank-and-file.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very articulate fighter on TV, with the gavel,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cHe is the star of the conservative media industrial complex, he is their darling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet as we spoke, Jordan had just seen 20 of his GOP colleagues oppose his candidacy on the House floor, a day before the tally would rise to 22.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is where the center of gravity is,\u201d Ryan added of Jordan, \u201cbut I think, we\u2019ll see what happens here, there\u2019s just enough institutionalists around still that\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
I interrupted: \u201cHe can\u2019t get quite get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Which was a nicer way of saying what I was thinking: There are still enough antibodies resisting the virus.<\/p>\n
However, if we\u2019re being honest, in the House, and the GOP writ large, increasingly it\u2019s Jordan who\u2019s the body and the pre-Trump Republicans the virus.”<\/p>\n
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