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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Expecting a Trump Defeat-Ryan planned a speech on Election Night to DENOUNCE Trump..." [View all]
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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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/paul-ryan-personifies-the-devils-bargain-the-gop-struck-with-trump/557783/
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"Expecting a Trump Defeat-Ryan planned a speech on Election Night to DENOUNCE Trump..." [View all]
kpete
Apr 2018
OP
If I were that criminal shit's kid, I'd hate for him to retire and come home.
Rabrrrrrr
Apr 2018
#13