Posted on 10/23/2023 7:44:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan weighed in on the current struggle for the Republican conference to elect a new speaker of the House following the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Of the publicly fractured House Republicans, he said the conference is "basically a bifurcated coalition government,” referencing the growing division and significantly differing factions within the party.
“This is a political-leaning conference right now, not a policy-leaning conference,” he said in an interview with Politico. He explained this resulted because “our party is a populist-leaning party right now, not a policy-leaning party.”
During his time in office, Ryan was known for his conservative budget framework and was particularly focused on the rising national debt. He was known as a fiscal hawk throughout his tenure, and while voting with Republicans on cultural issues, he was less vocal on them. However, cultural issues have increasingly moved to the forefront of the GOP.
Former President Donald Trump, who boasts the support of most Republican voters going into the 2024 primary elections, oversaw the national debt's rise by several trillion without losing significant support. As Trump's prominence in the party remains, attitudes among members have shifted away from intervention and toward isolationism when it comes to foreign policy. Concerns about the debt have subsided to an extent as Trump's plans for immigration and China policies have taken precedence. The issues of transgenderism and LGBT presence in schools have also climbed in importance. The party has subsequently seen shifts in its base, with a larger share of non-college-educated and working-class voters making it up.
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To translate this Ryan-speak, substitute “lobbyist” for “policy” and “voter” for “populist” or “political”.
“...shifted away from intervention and toward isolationism when it comes to foreign policy...”
Julia Johnson is an imbecile. Non-intervention does not mean isolation. What MAGA wants in foreign policy is to:
1) Stop forcing the homosexual/transsexual agenda on nations of the world.
2) Stop the CIA from engaging in assassination, oil pipe line sabotage, and other skullduggery.
3) Stop the CDC and WHO from pushing untested “vaccines” and funding abortions at American taxpayer expense.
4) Stop the DHS from importing millions and millions of illegal aliens from shit hole countries into the USA.
5) Stop funding Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and every other terrorist group that hates America.
DO you get it now Julia Johnson?, idiot writer for the Washington Examiner. /spit
Does anyone even care what Paul Ryno and MSN think?
I didn’t do that.
Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, McCain, Bush, McConnell, Cornyn are what is wrong with the Republican party.
Perfect! :-D
“our party is a populist-leaning party right now, not a policy-leaning party.”
What an idiot!
A populist part is a policy set that pus forward POLICIES favored by the vast majority of voters.
“Policy leaning” indicates policies not popular with the electorate, but which our betters believe are good for us.
Without realizing it, they have no regard for themselves.
Our church service last Sunday touched on the subject of rendering unto Caesar and corrupt government. Still for me Arrogant, corrupt injustice, and those who profit from it, remains a strident pet peeve.
Mr Ryan, we, The People, know good policy when we see it. You mental midgets in DC haven’t made good policy in decades.
Yup, unless it is his last words before he jumps from a bridge. I hate that weasel.
Paul RINO is the epitome of irrelevant. He couldn’t even soundly defeat BIDEN in a VP debate.
Oh, boy! I just couldn’t wait to hear that person weigh in on this.
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