Analysis: Paul Ryan’s dilemma was much like the conundrum the Republican Party faces today: Do we condemn Trump’s latest offensive comments or do we swallow our tongues and work with the man?
It was barely two o'clock in the afternoon and Paul Ryan was offering me a beer.
Does Paul Ryan have regrets? A few. Having remained dutifully acquiescent until the day he left office — including during our first interview for the, in the fall of 2018, when the speaker uttered nary a negative syllable about the president — he was ready to unleash in retirement.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201907/2583/1155968404_6057566225001_6057205075001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"For a man who ascended to the speakership, two heartbeats away from the American presidency, Ryan has never possessed finely tuned political antennae. His aides have long joked, and often cringed, about a certain aloofness that accompanied his self-projected image as a “policy guy.” But I got the sense that Ryan knew exactly what he was doing in that moment.
His justification for this approach is simple: The alternative could have been worse.
Donald Trump didn't show up that day. He rejected the invitation to attend. That was just fine with Ryan: He told friends that weekend that it was their mission to neutralize Trumpism or else risk losing control of their party. "We have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country,” Ryan told me that weekend, sitting inside a downtown hotel conference room. “One of the reasons I think it’s polarized is because of identity politics on the left. Now some on the right are playing it.
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