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If Rep. Jim Jordan becomes speaker of the House, it will be a disaster. He actively participated in Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. He allegedly ignored a team doctor’s sexual abuse of wrestlers whom Jordan coached at Ohio State University. He has never gotten close to passing a bill and is ranked as one of the least legislatively effective members of the House. This is someone who exists to yell and scream and lie in committee hearings and posture for Fox News, not someone who is in Congress to govern.
Democrats can and should continue to fight this—including by taking writer Brian Beutler’s suggestion to seat the Ohio State abuse victims and the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in the House visitors’ gallery during the speaker vote. But if life hands Democrats the lemon of a Speaker Jim Jordan, they are prepared to make electoral lemonade. Jordan would be ideal as a foil for nationalizing House elections in 2024.
