"Expecting a Trump Defeat-Ryan planned a speech on Election Night to DENOUNCE Trump..."

[kpete]

“expecting a Trump defeat, Ryan planned a speech on Election Night to denounce Trump’s racially polarizing agenda as a betrayal of conservatism’s ideals. Instead, Ryan folded the speech back into his jacket pocket—where it has receded deeper ever since.”

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No one in the GOP was better equipped, by position and disposition alike, to resist Trump’s racially infused, insular nationalism, or to define a more inclusive competing vision for the party. Instead, Ryan chose to tolerate both Trump’s personal excesses and his racially polarizing words and deeds as the price worth paying to advance Ryan’s own top priorities: cutting spending; regulations; and above all, taxes. The result was that Ryan, more than any other prominent Republican, personified the devil’s 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 Politico’s 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 Trump’s racially polarizing agenda as a political dead end and a betrayal of conservatism’s ideals. Instead, when Trump won, Ryan folded the speech back into his jacket pocket—where 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]

1. Probably meant resided...but receded actually

Also works.

[hlthe2b]

2. actually, I think receded is the more appropriate verb...

i.e., not merely "present" but moving ever deeper away from vision...

[Funtatlaguy]

4. True. And it also matches Ryans hairline.

I can never take Ryan seriously looking at his Eddie Munster pointed forehead.

[saidsimplesimon]

23. I enjoy word play.

Thanks for the chuckle upthread and to yours as well.

[ollie10]

3. A Profile of..... Wimpiness

[Freethinker65]

5. Disgraceful

[Liberalhammer]

6. But Racism

Is the Republican agenda.

Always was, Trump just broke the golden rule to whisper the racism, not use a blow horn.

[czarjak]

7. And then had to own that POS...

Exquisite, huh?

[argyl]

8. Not a decent bone in his body. And no vertebrae in his back.

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]

9. what a complete pussy that hateful objectivist chump is

[malaise]

10. He should have read it last night

spineless jackass.

[Vinca]

11. Just wait . . . Ryan will be on a rehabilitation tour before 2020 comes around.

And Republicans will lap it up.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. This was the first salvo of that "reboot" tour.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. If I were that criminal shit's kid, I'd hate for him to retire and come home.

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]

14. I had a vision of Paul Ryan being a smug, opportunistic toad.

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]

15. Trump enabler.

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]

16. Equipped by position, I'll accept...

... but the author will have to work pretty hard to convince me that Mr Rand was also equipped by "disposition."

-- Mal

[smb]

17. Paul Ryan -- Chapter One in "Profiles In COWARDICE"

[Nitram]

18. This sounds very credible. Ryan planned to blame the defeat on Trump and not the GOP.

Makes his subsequent cowardice that much more disgusting.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Which goes to show

Ryan is a sniveling little wimp

[JI7]

20. He is a Coward either way. Waiting until he was defeated was still cowardly

overrated dumbfuck

[Achilleaze]

21. republican whimps FAIL to stand up for America

what perfect cowards republicans have shown themselves to be - failing to protect or defend the USA.

[akbacchus_BC]

22. Paul Ryan is a piece of shit! He worked the system to his advantange

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?