On the Thursday edition of her MSNBC show, Nicolle Wallace shed any pretense of compassionate or even dispassionate political analysis, and embraced her inner hatred.
Speaking about the 22 Republicans who wouldn't vote for Jordan with ex-GOP congressman and Never Trumper David Jolly, Wallace said:
"I know why I have a visceral rejection of Jim Jordan and it precedes his role in overturning the result of the 2020 election, but tell me why they hate him, the 22?"
"Visceral rejection:" euphemism for hating someone deep in your guts. As proved by her question to Jolly, asking why those 22 Republicans, in line with her feelings, "hate him."
Responded Jolly:
"Yeah, in many ways it is a culmination of the evolution of the Republican party to where it is today, and so those who remember a previous party are the ones saying, wait a minute, Jordan cannot be our Speaker, and here's why. Jordan emerged just before the Tea Party in 2010 and helped usher in this brand of conservatism that believes government is the enemy."
Really? Jordan is not in the tradition of the Republican party because he distrusts government?
Huh! Who said this?
"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."
Oh, right. That was Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 Inaugural Address.
So Nicolle Wallace, do you have a "visceral rejection" of Reagan, too?
How about Founding Father Thomas Paine, Nicolle? Hate him, too? After all, in Common Sense, Paine described government as "a necessary evil." Yikes! People like that guy should never get anywhere close to the gavel!
Note: Wallace twice mocked Jordan as "Jacketless Jim." Such a fashion traditionalist, that Nicolle! But wait: anyone remember Wallace mocking shorts-and-hoodie John Fetterman?
Nicolle Wallace saying she has a "visceral rejection" of Jim Jordan, and asking a guest why the 22 Republicans who voted against Jordan for Speaker "hate him," was sponsored in part by Wayfair, Google, Abbvie, maker of Rinvoq, and Procter & Gamble, maker of Swiffer.
Here's the transcript.
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10/19/23
4:40 pm EDTNICOLLE WALLACE: We now turn to events on Earth 2 [chuckles.] Events appear to be stuck in a state of extended chaos.
When we checked in this morning, Jacketless Jim Jordan appeared to be heading for a third Speaker vote. That effort quickly fell apart. They pulled the plug. And Jordan said he was going to take a pause and support, temporarily empowering Congressman Patrick McHenry for Speaker. He's the temporary one. Only to again see that, I guess we're on plan D, E, fall apart.
So now, Jim says to expect a third vote for him after all, and now he's behind closed doors meeting with the 22 GOP holdouts. Some of them have been at the other end of some very public, very aggressive, very threatening, pressure campaigns as have their spouses.
Multiple Republican lawmakers have reported receiving menacing calls of intimidation to get them to vote for Jacketless Jim. Some even received death threats after breaking with Jim Jordan. One congresswoman said she received, quote, credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls, end quote, after she switched her vote to another Republican in the second round of voting. One thing I cannot stomach or support is a bully, admitting that she will not be intimidated. Joining us now, former congressman from Florida and MSNBC political analyst, David Jolly.
We're trying to get Ali Vitali up as well. David Jolly, I know why I have visceral rejection of Jim Jordan, and it precedes his role in overturning the result of the 2020 election. But tell me why they hate him, the 22.
DAVID JOLLY: Yeah, in many ways it is a culmination of the evolution of the Republican party to where it is today, and so those who remember a previous party are the ones saying, wait a minute, Jordan cannot be our Speaker, and here's why.
Jordan emerged just before the Tea party in 2010 and helped usher in this brand of conservatism that believes government is the enemy. They have to shut it down. They are anti-institutions, and so, the disconnect here, the dissonance is, you have a caucus largely now, a majority of the caucus, that is against government, and governing, and they don't to want do it.
And yet, you have those very people now saying, but give me the keys to the institution of the House of Representatives.
And it's this quixotic moment where we now get to see the culmination of a modern Republican party that
says government is the enemy, but trust us with the keys.
