Maybe he does and is playing some unseen agenda game behind the scenes, but Ryan appears to not see that his arrogant, condescending behavior towards Trump, the presidential nominee of his own party, is exactly why the voters are voting for Trump. They are sick and tired of the politicians like Ryan.
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I am not crazy about Trump hob knobbing with this sleaze bag.
I am assuming he is assessing what he has to work with. Trump says he is a great judge of character.
Trump has said send me into a pack of wolves and I come out
the leader of the pack.
Trump better come out that way.
Most politicians are not "leaders". They all follow, fit in and go along. That's not leading. They're taught how to act, how to speak, how to be duplicitous without really giving an answer. Except for the quality of their suits, they are not much different than used car salesmen, who I think rank higher in polls of Americans on who they trust and respect the least.
Trump, on the other hand, stands out, sometimes all by himself, against everybody else. He goes where the politicians won't go....that's what real leaders do. He speaks directly and frankly to the voters and then lets the chips fall where they may. My kind of leader. He was warned and critiqued from the get-go that he was not serious, that he was a clown, that he was not presidential enough, that he would never make it very far, that he was going to self-imploded any week now, etc., etc., etc., yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah.
And guess what? He ignored everybody and plowed through the pack and discharged each of them one after another until he was the last one standing.
When you lead the pack, you stand alone.