Believe me Mr. Ryan, no one sees the GOPe as an opposition party! However, we CRAVE an opposition party — and that explains Mr. Trump’s popularity more than anything else.
Please some one send this to Rush, Beck and Levin, they apparently don't know it.
The only problem with being a self-defined “opposition” is that the Democrats and their anti-Constitutional left-wing agenda get defined by default as the “normal” status quo and the pro-Constitutional types get pigeonholed as outsiders. It should be the other way around, especially since the GOP are the majority and are pro-Constitution at least per party platform.
However, Ryan’s stance is clearly that of support of a “Uniparty”.