Is Jim Jordan the Biggest Disappointment in Congress?
There was a time when Jim Jordan looked like the future of the America 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’d 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.
But that was then. And this is now.
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 just isn’t 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’s a fair question. And based on many of Jim’s questionable moves, especially when it comes to Big Tech and antitrust enforcement, it’s one question we can’t afford to ignore anymore. Is there a pattern that we can look back at to map Jim’s fall from grace? And by “grace” we mean the potential that Jim had to be great. We mourn the true America First fighter he could’ve 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.
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He sparred with Dr. Fauci over COVID restrictions and gain-of-function research.
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He called out weaponized DOJ tactics and took on the FBI for targeting parents and conservatives.
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For a while, it really felt like Jim was our guy.
Sure, Hillary was never held accountable. Fauci ran wild with zero consequences. And the FBI faced no punishment for targeting decent American parents.
Yes, it was all frustrating, but we didn’t point the finger at Jim. We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We believed he was fighting the good fight. He spoke the America 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, Jim’s battle didn’t feel like “political theater.” You have to remember, 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.
So, he got a pass on not coming through with immediate action.
But after a while, things started to change.
It’s 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. But somewhere along the way, his mission changed. Sure, Jim’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 weren’t translating into actual outcomes. So, this social media pattern, along with the slew of pointless letters, has led many supporters to question Jordan’s motives.
This X post says what a lot of right-wingers are feeling. And we thought it was worth sharing.
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 Jim. 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 fucking 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.
10 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, FBI has had a major turnover followed by promises of Justice. So far and I want to be fair, so far all we received were more promises of investigations and of course followed by strongly worded letters.
What we got wasn’t the Jim we hoped for.
But while many in the base were quietly grumbling about Jim’s lack of action, the media kept framing him as a “hardliner,” like this headline from the Washington Post.
For many in the America First movement, it started to feel like the bigger Jim Jordan’s political platform got, the more cautious he became. He began cozying up to party leadership, including Kevin McCarthy, and stayed pretty quiet about the J6 political prisoners.
One moment that really raised eyebrows was his decision during the House Speaker race. Instead of standing his ground and rallying support for his own bid, he backed down and even made moves to help a notorious RINO.
This move was seen by many as weak and a big departure from his earlier, warrior persona. It raised questions about his ability to truly challenge the GOP establishment.
But what really set MAGA off was Jim’s cozy relationship with Big Tech.
Back in 2023, folks started digging into his history of campaign donations from tech giants, and it didn’t sit right. Many believed those ties were creeping into his work and influencing him.
In October of 2023, The New Republic wrote a blistering piece calling out Jordan’s duplicity when it came to Big Tech.
Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican running for House speaker, has made no secret of his dislike for the technology industry, repeatedly accusing major platforms of censoring conservative voices. But his outspoken stance belies a duplicity regarding Big Tech when it comes to his biggest financial backers, whom he’s hiring as advisers, and even the legislation he has quietly tried to kill.
A look into Jim’s donations revealed a politician fueled by the very people he claimed to hate. The New Republic piece goes on:
But a look at his campaign donors and Hill staff suggests he may be all talk.
Jordan has accepted more than $760,000 in total campaign donations from the communications and electronics industry since he first ran for Congress in 2006, according to OpenSecrets. And technology companies or industry-friendly organizations sponsored 17 trips, worth a combined total of about $39,000, for Jordan and his staff between 2012 and early 2023, according to financial disclosure statements reviewed by The New Republic.
Jordan also has ties to influential conservative organizations aiming to block or roll back antitrust regulations. His fourth-largest campaign donor since the very beginning (excluding the House Freedom Caucus PAC) is Koch Industries. Over the past 50 years, the billionaire Koch brothers’ sprawling network has, among other things, sought to slash government regulations on antitrust policy.
Jordan and his staff have gone on more than 55 trips funded by the Heritage Foundation, financial disclosure forms show. The conservative think tank opposes meaningful antitrust reform and has received more than $1.5 million in donations from Google, and $275,000 from Facebook. Jordan has participated in events for both the Heritage Foundation and the Koch network.
Jordan’s staff isn’t just accepting the tech sector money as a perk, either. The representative’s office is hiring people whose background predisposes them to oppose antitrust protections.
Many conservatives began asking how Jim can seriously fight for free speech online when he’s funded and seemingly influenced, not to mention infiltrated, by Big Tech. And for a lot of people, that was the turning point, the moment Jim began his fall from grace.
But this curious relationship between Big Tech and Jordan didn’t start before 2023.
What once looked like Jim’s righteous fighting started to feel more like political theater—something filmmaker and independent journalist Mike Cernovich called out back in 2022.
Mike noted that while Jordan was busy battling Big Tech in front of the cameras, he was doing the exact opposite behind the scenes.
And now, Jim’s back in the headlines, this time for trying to undermine the very people President Trump put in place to finally hold Big Tech oligarchs accountable.
According to legal expert Mike Davis, Jordan is now pushing a move that would gut the FTC’s ability to go after Facebook for its antitrust violations…yes, the same Facebook that funneled $400 million into defeating Trump in 2020 and helped launch the entire censorship and “disinformation” campaign we’re still dealing with today.
This is yet another move that makes many wonder who Jim’s really fighting for.
Davis: Now that we have Trump’s antitrust law enforcers at the FTC and the Antitrust Division with a target on Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, @Jim_Jordan all of a sudden wants to use the reconciliation process to effectively shut down the FTC to stop it from holding Facebook accountable for its antitrust abuses. This is the same Facebook that spent $400 million chasing @realDonaldTrump out of office in 2020 and subjecting him to lawfare. @mrddmia
This clip will definitely leave a lot of Americans wondering about Jim’s motives, and rightfully so.
After all, at one point, Jim Jordan had the potential to be one of the great America First warriors, a driving force in the fight to take back our country. And maybe you don’t think he’s the biggest disappointment in Congress, but it’s hard to deny that somewhere along the way, he shifted.
The question now is, can Jim come back from this?
Maybe. But if there’s any path to MAGA redemption, it starts with cutting ties to Big Tech and turning those letters and rage tweets into real action.
Because you can’t wave the America First flag with one hand and carry water for the censorship cartel with the other…and justice doesn’t come in the form of a strongly worded letter.
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