Sorry for being obtuse, but the only way that Jordan’s statement that you reference makes any sort of sense to me is if it ends like this here:
“So let’s all do the only reasonable thing and make like good little Republicans and play along with the boss man, because he’s been here the longest.”
A simpler and more direct translation would be, “Look, our side has f***ed up a zillion times, but the last thing we need is what those sonsab*tches over there want, and the only way that’s going to happen is if we join together and start fighting the war against them that they’ve been fighting against us.”
Then never let McCarthy live one day without putting his whole lower body to the fire.