House GOP Leadership Fights, The Hegseth Impeachment Fiasco, Trump’s 60 Minutes Existentialism, the Future of the Iron War
On this week’s episode of The Politics Guys, Trey Orndorff (Oklahoma Christian University) and Justin Holmes (University of Northern Iowa) convene to look at the most recent news after the 2026 midterm elections. (Supporters can now watch this episode!) The episode starts with Republicans electing Freedom Caucus founder Jim Jordan as their next Minority Leader. Trey and Justin analyze why the GOP conference chose a performative partisan brawler to lead them rather than moderating. Meanwhile, the hosts look at Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s upcoming leadership fight with Senator Chris Van Hollen.
Next is Representative Thomas Massie’s forced privileged floor vote on his long-delayed articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran. While the GOP leadership moved to bury the articles by referring them to the Judiciary Committee, 11 Democrats failed to show up for work, citing bad traffic. Trey has strong words for Democrats who cannot get to work on time.
After that, the pair move to Donald Trump’s existential 60 Minutes interview. Here, Justin takes a more sympathetic view of President Trump, with his passing acknowledgments regarding immigration moderation and inflation consequences. Trey sees an elderly man openly contemplating his existential place in the universe, having never thought about it deeply before.
The guys close with the geopolitical fallout of the ongoing conflict in Iran. Justin and Trey discuss the reality of asymmetric warfare and why military escalation, such as bombing civilian infrastructure, offers no strategic exit. Justin finishes the show with a positive prediction: the administration will execute a face-saving withdrawal and claim total victory with minimal concessions on the Strait of Hormuz and a return to the pre-war geopolitical status quo.
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