He just loves the guy, that's all
by digby
You're one of them, Gym.
CHUCK TODD:
-- again, does it bother you that Donald Trump surrounded himself -- kept this man as a confidant? For everything you've described him as, why did he keep him as a confidant?
REP. JIM JORDAN:
You'd have to ask the, you’d have to ask the president.
CHUCK TODD:
Does that bother you?
REP. JIM JORDAN:
Not really. It doesn't.
CHUCK TODD:
Why?
REP. JIM JORDAN:
It just doesn't. What I know is what the president's done in his two years as president of the United States. The Democrats never want to talk about it. The press never seems to want to talk about this.
(Blah, blah, blah tax cuts, Supreme Court Nafta, Iran, blah, blah blah.)
"It just doesn't."
And frankly, I don't think he really cares about any of that stuff either. If Trump decided to do nothing but executive time and rallies for the next two years he'd still back him. In fact, short of some kind of real national emergency, that's exactly what's going to happen because his Dear Leader can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag so the GOP agenda is dead and buried.
He just loves his man.
Cults of personality are not ideological. There have been stirrings of the same thing on the left. It has nothing to do with "issues" or accomplishment.
Jordan and his friends in the Freedom Caucus are an interesting case. They were always a purely tribal movement. They needed a leader to rally around. They found one.
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