A New York Times reporter who profiled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s political rise compared her to the titular character in “The Great Gatsby.” The formerly moderate GOP lawmaker reinvented herself as a Donald Trump acolyte, which reporter Nick Confessore told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” resembled the transformation of Jay Gatz into Jay Gatsby described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his classic novel. “I think Stefanik is part of the Gatsbyesque tradition in American politics,” Confessore said. “Donald Trump is part of it, too, and so is George Santos. What happened to Elise Stefanik is a case study of the Tru…
