Jay Talks with Rep. Jim Jordan (2017)

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Education, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 2017, only a few years after Jim Jordan co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, he had this conversation with Jay, who knew Jordan from their days in the Ohio House of Representatives (Jordan was a freshman legislator, Jay was a staffer). Jordan talks about why he helped create the Freedom Caucus, what it stands for, his views on government spending and debt, as well as some ideas that Mike thinks end up in “tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theory” territory. Given Jordan’s rise to power and his current bid to be the next Speaker of the House, we thought listeners might appreciate hearing this interview from our Politics Guys archive. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.6	I'm the government.
0:36.6	Love the government.
0:38.6	The government.
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0:42.0	Welcome to the politics, guys,
0:43.5	a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:47.8	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:52.3	Representative Jim Jordan is one of the most important and some would say one of the most
0:57.9	notorious people in American politics today.
1:01.7	He might not end up becoming Speaker of the House.
1:04.6	As I record this, it's October 18th.
1:07.5	He's just failed to get a majority in the second vote for Speaker.
1:11.6	He still has an awful lot of influence, and that doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon, for better or for worse.
1:19.8	Many of you may not know this, but my co-host Jay actually worked with Representative Jordan near the start of, well, both of their careers. Jay was a staffer in the Ohio State House and Jim Jordan was a freshman legislator there.
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