Paul Ryan's Compromised Legacy

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The retiring House speaker leaves behind a near-trillion-dollar debt and a Trumpian GOP.



As he readies his escape from the wreckage wrought by the blue wave, Paul Ryan is patting himself on the back for a job well done.
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Norman Ornstein, the nonpartisan Washington analyst who has tracked Congress since the 1970s, tells me that Ryan’s “encouragement and protection of Devin Nunes as he tried mightily to sabotage the Russia investigation is a serious black mark”—but that his accountability deficit is far deeper: “Under his aegis, there was no oversight either of corruption or misdeeds by Trump, his family, his staff and his Cabinet … no hearings on the Puerto Rico hurricane disaster, child separation, budget cuts to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] leaving us more vulnerable to pandemics, or any other examples of failures in governance. And his biggest legacy will be the ballooning debt burden that will make it difficult to get us out of the next recession, and will be a burden for the country for many decades.” - The Atlantic

I think Ryan's legacy will be judged even more harshly; that of a complicit traitor to the United States of America.

[thegoose]

1. Compromised?

Awash in corruption like all Pukes.