Paul Ryan, the last Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, gave a talk at the Reagan Library in violation of Ronald W. Reagan's Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." Indeed, it was, as they say in basketball, a flagrant foul that Ryan committed.
At the beginning of his talk, Ryan said the following:
Even for our good showing in the House 2020 left Republicans powerless in Washington. Even worse, it was horrifying to… to see a presidency come to such a dishonorable and disgraceful end....
He went on to say that the conservative cause will be stymied if it "depends on the populist appeal of one personality or of second-rate imitations." Apparently to make sure that his audience will not mistake the target of his sarcasm, Ryan then remarked that voters "will not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago."
Thus, like any member in good standing of NeverTrump, Inc. Ryan excoriated a fellow Republican, but not a single Democrat. And so, Paul Ryan thumbed his nose at the teaching of the man in whose library he stood, speaking very ill indeed of our last Republican president, while giving a pass to leftist demagoguery, mendacious propaganda, unfair and dishonest election strategems. Sure, he said that leftists seek vast powers of government to remake society, but that is mere pabulum. Ignored by Ryan were the totalitarian methods they employ to gain power, including, above all, demonizing Republicans, character assassination.
Did Ryan inform his audience that the totalitarian-minded Democrats take their guidance from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which, I well recall, tells leftists to isolate their target and then demonize him. Ryan did not even say that the Democrats are totalitarian-minded.
