by Revolver News
WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 30, 2025 - There was a time when Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) looked like the future of the Amerika First movement. This guy had the energy, the fight and the guts to go toe-to-toe with the establishment and say what needed to be said. He rose to power not by playing the game but by crushing it – he would fry up bureaucrats like a pound of bacon, throw sharp elbows at the fake news narrative, and, most importantly, stand shoulder to shoulder with MAGA when it mattered most.
However, these days, many wonder what happened. Jordan still makes the rounds, still puts on the uniform, but the firepower is missing. Something feels off. The follow-through is just not there.
Has Jim Jordan faded into the same mold as so many before him - loud at the start but softer the closer he got to power?
It is a fair question. Based on many of Jordan’s questionable moves, especially when it comes to Big Tech and antitrust enforcement, it is one question we cannot afford to ignore anymore. Is there a pattern that we can look back at to map Jordan’s fall from grace? By “grace” we mean the potential that Jordan had to be great. We mourn the true Amerika First fighter he could have been and want to explore how this happened.
Back when MAGA was still finding its footing, Jim Jordan was one of those fiery House Republicans who stood out as a real fighter. He wasn’t polished. We didn’t want slick. He wasn’t trying to play both sides. We wanted a warrior who picked a side. This guy showed up in his shirtsleeves, angry, direct and ready to dismantle whatever the Deep State threw at him. We liked that. We saw potential.
Jordan made headlines grilling Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings. He sparred with Dr. Anthony Fauci over COVID-19 restrictions and gain-of-function research. He called out weaponized Department of InJustice tactics and took on the FBI for targeting parents and conservatives. For a while, it really felt like Jordan was our guy.
Sure, Hillary was never held accountable, Fauci ran wild with zero consequences, and the FBI faced no punishment for targeting decent Amerikan parents.
Yes, it was all frustrating, but we didn’t point the finger at Jordan. We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We believed he was fighting the good fight. He spoke the Amerika First language fluently - border security, free speech, law and order and anti-globalism. He pushed back hard on the propaganda media and bloated federal bureaucracy.
His time would come, right? His righteous fight would have heads rolling in no time flat…
At the time, Jordan’s battle didn’t feel like “political theater”. Back then Jordan was helping to shape the foundation of the new Right. He wasn’t just following Trump’s lead; he was actually defining the fight.
He got a pass on not coming through with immediate action. But after a while, things started to change. It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment Jim Jordan stopped being the tip of the “MAGA spear” and started sounding more like just another empty-suit Republican with a Twitter account.
Somewhere along the way, his mission changed. Sure, Jordan’s shirt sleeves were still rolled up, but the fight got a lot softer.
Instead of taking the big action we expected or driving the real change we needed, Jordan became known for drafting an endless string of “strongly worded letters” that went nowhere and tweeting fiery one-liners that made the rounds online but didn’t move the needle in real life. To many, his social media account became a platform for rage tweets and gratuitous clicks. His posts were not translating into actual outcomes. This social media pattern, along with the slew of pointless letters, has led many supporters to question Jordan’s motives.
In 2016 Jim Jordan, the former wrestler, was supposed to be the tough guy law and order Congressman who was going to not only make a difference but was going to infamously save Trump from the wolves.
No one rehearsed the entire Russia scam better than Jordan. That was the birth of the strongly worded letter. The birth of all the investigations that promised to bring us justice.
Jim Jordan’s stock rose to the top. Republicans decided to climb aboard, and the trend was started. The GOP went on an investigation and strongly worded tour.
Promise after promise, threatening letter after letter, investigation after investigation. The outcome? Nothing. Not a thing. Nada. Zilch.
Here we are, 10 years later, and what do we have? What did we accomplish? Where did those letters and investigations get us? Nowhere fast.
Ten years and nothing. The people are beyond fed up. We learned a valuable lesson that all these investigations were never about prosecutions, hell, they had and still have the goods. This was all about politics and helping their star rise. They made headlines and the people bought it until they didn’t. We were played. The GOP was playing to the voters all in an effort to further their careers.
Now we have a new regime with many of the same actors all still in place, all promising the same things. Investigations followed by strongly worded letters. The DOJ and FBI have had major turnovers followed by promises of justice. So far all we have received have been more promises of investigations and of course followed by strongly worded letters.
What we got wasn’t the Jordan for which we hoped.