Conservative Republicans have been megaphoning to the world that they and the American people are the victims of a conspiracy by evil doers — Democrats, leftist media, Big Tech, social media and the federal “Deep State,” like DOJ and the FBI — all wanting to snuff them and their free speech out of power. In the mid-term elections in November, a skeptical public threw Republicans a life-vest and allowed them a bare majority in the lower body of Congress, as if to say, “Here’s a life-line. You’ve got two years. Now, put up or shut up.”
With that, the stage is set for Republicans to strut their stuff.
Their crucible will largely be a new subcommittee of the House born of that prolonged and zany mating dance between Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the MAGA extremists in advance of his election as Speaker. That panel, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), could be the Republicans’ last hope for remaining relevant and clinging to power on the big stage.
The subcommittee has wide powers and jurisdiction. The Republicans vainly hope it will be the second coming of the Church Committee of the 1970s. With that much on the line, the Republicans need not only to “put up” for the public and their own credibility, but they also desperately need to avoid major embarrassments — which they are uniquely qualified to cause.
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