Crash Course: Jim Jordan faces the abyss — but GOP "moderates" can't escape the MAGA vortex

Even if GOP normies can block Jim Jordan (for now), they still have to run with Donald Trump in 2024. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnEj_AP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHFiOWZrbWJldC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWg0MHBhdnRuM29XA3NwY0IKZSDBui9lGtw3WFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnEj_AP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHV0c2RzYjBobC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWg0MHBhdnRuM28mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZSDBui9lGtw3WFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Jim Jordan faces the abyss — but GOP "moderates" can't escape the MAGA vortex Amanda Marcotte: It's easy to see why these rebel Republicans are worried that Speaker Jordan is an especially bad look. No one in history has embodied the role of a fascist gym teacher more thoroughly than Jordan, a man whose only waking mode is "hectoring." But of course, Trump is the reason why this gesture of voting down Jordan, even if it sticks, will do little to salvage the reputation of the GOP. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnEj_AP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvb2FjdGRlbjJtMS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWg0MHBhdnRuM28mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZSDBui9lGtw3WFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) David Rothkopf on war in Gaza: "Revenge is not a strategy. It doesn't make people safe" "Obviously, it's been a troubling week because we have seen the atrocities that were committed in Israel," David Rothkopf, the author of hundreds of articles on international and national security, told Chauncey DeVega. "But it's also troubling to me because what we've seen in the media and among political opportunists is a kind of bloodlust that reminds me so much of what we saw after 9/11, where there seemed to be political hay to be made by sounding tougher, being more aggressive, and talking about revenge." 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