“If Republicans decide Jim Jordan should be Speaker of the House,” said former Republican Congressperson Liz Cheney this morning, “there would no longer be any other possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”

And yet no member of Congress has done more over the last year to expose the abuses of power by the federal government agencies, including in demanding greater censorship of disfavored views, than Jordan. …

What none mention is that Jordan routinely platforms liberal voices, including Matt Taibbi and me, when we testified before his committee on censorship last March. These media outlets also don’t mention that Jordan has cordial and even warm relationships with Democrats and that his closest friend for years has been Dennis Kucinich, the former “ultra-progressive” mayor of Cleveland and member of Congress.

“I mean, literally, he’s a friend,” Jordan told a reporter in 2018. “He thinks I’m crazy, I think he’s crazy, but when we can agree — and we could on issues — we’d work together.”

[I have to admit that I’ve always had a little affection for Kucinich too, whose affability and charm come in part from a completely honest belief in his doctrine. That’s a side point, though. The issue is that all the usual suspects in the media and in the speech-suppression business are ramping up the ‘fascist’ narrative when it comes to Jordan. It’s nonsense, of course, and we can see it coming miles away. — Ed]