Is Congress chasing clicks instead of Christ? One GOP lawmaker

Riley Moore said the part that most politicians won't: too many of them have swapped the call of the Lord for the call of the notification. He's not wrong, and it took some nerve to say it out loud. The whole town runs on manufactured outrage and performative piety, and the platform rewards whichever member can get the most strangers angry before lunch. The feed is a false prophet. It promises influence and delivers a hollow sort of noise.

What makes Moore's comment stick is that it cuts across the aisle. Democrats are just as guilty of chasing the algorithm, doing little dances for the base while pretending it's all about "democracy." But the left won't hear this critique because they've turned politics into a religion already. Christ isn't in the engagement metrics. He's in the quiet work, the uncomfortable votes, the visits that don't get filmed. Moore is telling his own party something uncomfortable, too. That's rarer than it should be.

We don't need every Republican to be a preacher. But we do need more of them to remember that the job is service, not selfies. Moore is a first-term congressman from West Virginia, and he's already showing more clarity than the lifers who treat every hearing as an audition. The clicks fade. The character doesn't. That's the kind of reminder Washington could stand to hear more often, even if it's delivered in a way that won't trend on X.