Remember Paul Ryan? Former wonky wunderkind of the Republican Party, reluctant House speaker, failed savior of Mitt Romney’s presidential ticket. The guy who got the hell out of dodge as soon as he got his dream tax cuts for the rich passed, just in time to lose the House majority and have to hand the gavel back to Nancy Pelosi.
Yeah, that guy.
Well, he still sucks. Sure, you haven’t seen his name in headlines much since he quit his day job in Congress and headed for the sweet life on the board of Fox Corp., but rest assured, he doesn’t suck any less than when his name and his smug face graced the papers on the daily.
Ryan, you see, emerges every now and then to tell people that Donald Trump is kinda bad. Here he is on Fox News—hey, what a coincidence!—bemoaning the damage Trump has done to Ryan’s beloved GOP.
"He has cost us a lot of seats,” Ryan said, which is true. “He cost us the Senate twice, he cost us the House, because he is nominating—he is pushing through the primaries people who cannot win general elections but who pledge fealty to him.” Also true.
“Ever since 2016, we’ve been losing seats,” Ryan added. Also true again! Check out the big brain on Paul!
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