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expecting a Trump defeat, Ryan planned a speech on Election Night to denounce Trumps racially polarizing agenda as a betrayal of conservatisms ideals. Instead, Ryan folded the speech back into his jacket pocketwhere it has receded deeper ever since..................
No one in the GOP was better equipped, by position and disposition alike, to resist Trumps racially infused, insular nationalism, or to define a more inclusive competing vision for the party. Instead, Ryan chose to tolerate both Trumps personal excesses and his racially polarizing words and deeds as the price worth paying to advance Ryans own top priorities: cutting spending; regulations; and above all, taxes. The result was that Ryan, more than any other prominent Republican, personified the devils bargain the GOP has signed with Trump. And his departure crystallizes the difficult choices Republicans face as Trump redefines the party in his belligerent image.
From the exhaustive reporting of Politicos Tim Alberta, who was first to telegraph that Ryan was likely to retire, we know that the speaker, expecting a Trump defeat, planned to deliver a speech on Election Night in 2016. He intended to denounce Trumps racially polarizing agenda as a political dead end and a betrayal of conservatisms ideals. Instead, when Trump won, Ryan folded the speech back into his jacket pocketwhere it has receded deeper ever since.
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more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/paul-ryan-personifies-the-devils-bargain-the-gop-struck-with-trump/557783/
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Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)Also works.
hlthe2b
(102,510 posts)i.e., not merely "present" but moving ever deeper away from vision...
Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)I can never take Ryan seriously looking at his Eddie Munster pointed forehead.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Thanks for the chuckle upthread and to yours as well.
ollie10
(2,091 posts)Freethinker65
(10,105 posts)Liberalhammer
(576 posts)Is the Republican agenda.
Always was, Trump just broke the golden rule to whisper the racism, not use a blow horn.
czarjak
(11,326 posts)Exquisite, huh?
argyl
(3,064 posts)Hopefully he's gone for good but at his age he could pull a Nixon and get nominated and maybe elected as president at a later date. 2024, maybe 2028.
After losing the Presidency to JFK in 1960 he ran for, and was defeated by Pat Brown, Jerry's dad, in the 1962 California gubernatorial election in 1962. His concession speech ended with the self pitying line directed to the press," You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.
So Nixon joined a white shoe law firm in Manhattan and ran for and won the presidency in 1968.
Fortunately, Ryan isn't nearly as intelligent or as patient or cunning as Nixon was.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)spineless jackass.
Vinca
(50,326 posts)And Republicans will lap it up.
BumRushDaShow
(129,954 posts)Rabrrrrrr
(58,356 posts)Assuming that, if I were that amoral shit's kid, I still managed somehow to grow up as me and not as an immoral braindead shit like he's probably raising (or trying to raise) his kids.
But I don't know his kids at all - maybe they're actually decent, having been raised by their mom. Maybe they're growing up asking questions like "Why does dad say he's a faithful Catholic while he does all that shit?" and "Why does dad want to hurt people who are in situations like he was in when he was a kid?" and "How can an Ayn Rand-worshiping turdblossom make such constant claims to virtuousness and non-troglodytism?" and "Why does daddy do that horrible stuff during the week and then come home and take the Eucharist on Sunday morning like he's done nothing wrong?"
BobTheSubgenius
(11,578 posts)A reprehensible troglodyte who would push his mother down a flight of stairs for a hundred votes or a decimal point added to a tax cut. Unbelievably, he failed to rise to even that dim view.
This festering simulacrum absolutely KNEW WITH CERTAINTY that 45 and everything he...I can't say "stands for", because it doesn't stand for everything. Everything it slithers over is wrong by any possible human definition and that Ryan sold out America to further thus an even more rancid "agenda" than I originally imagined is just awful.
I wish him well, though. Falling into a ditch full of fetid, infectious swamp ooze while covered with suppurating sores is the best I can do. Better than he deserves.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)His silence gave Trump the stamp of approval of the Repug party and normalized all the atrociousness.
But there's nothing of surprise here. He's a heartless sociopath who will now go off to make millions.
malthaussen
(17,235 posts)... but the author will have to work pretty hard to convince me that Mr Rand was also equipped by "disposition."
-- Mal
smb
(3,478 posts)Nitram
(22,951 posts)Makes his subsequent cowardice that much more disgusting.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,430 posts)Ryan is a sniveling little wimp
JI7
(89,287 posts)overrated dumbfuck
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)what perfect cowards republicans have shown themselves to be - failing to protect or defend the USA.
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)and now he realises his teenage children need him, what a crock! He is one of the most despicable human being I have ever seen on TV with regard to US politics. This fucker looks at himself in the mirror every morning and feel good, he is a dirty piece of shit for a human being, along with him and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Who are these people?