Posted on 03/30/2016 11:08:36 AM PDT by C19fan
I see that the Wall Street Journal editorial page has risen to the defense of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s relatively muted response to Trumpism, and what they’ve come up with is quite … revealing. In my deliberately tart critique of Ryan and the rest of the G.O.P. leadership, I suggested that he and other prominent conservatives were taking a “first, change nothing; second, do nothing” approach to the challenge of Trumpism, and essentially lying still and hoping the danger would pass over. The Journal’s counter-argument is a straightforward endorsement of exactly that approach: Trumpism too shall pass, the editorial avers, and in the mean time the important thing is to maintain the purity of Journal-approved conservatism, and to refuse any aid and comfort to all those deviationists and splittists who think that the party might not have exactly the right economic agenda for the voters and the times.
(Excerpt) Read more at douthat.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Ryan needs to focus on his own job.
Good grief.
These grand poobahs should consider what applying the phrase “I can’s spare this man, he fights” to Trump indicates about the actions of the Republican leadership.
Or for another quote “It is not the fights they lost it is the fights they refused to have.”
If we fail to break the stranglehold of the Cheap Labor Express on the GOP, the next best thing is to kill it outright.
GOP-RIP
>Ryan needs to focus on his own job.
Well, he sure hasn’t focused on the base, ‘conservatism’ or the Constitution.
More likely, he will be focus on *keeping* his job.
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