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When historians evaluate this episode, I really hope that Paul Ryan’s culpability is considered in all its glory. 1/
Consider that in Ryan’s final days as Speaker, the Senate had unanimously approved a continuing resolution that would have funded the rest of the government until February. House Freedom Caucus folks weren’t thrilled, but there was a strong majority to pass the bill. 2/
At this point, Trump intercedes and asks Ryan for the House GOP to reject the bill. Ryan eventually agrees. 3/
Imagine the counterfactual of Ryan, in his last days in power, deciding instead to resist Trump’s entreaties to support a hardline immigration plan that Ryan himself did not really support. 4/
All of this is to point out that Ryan could have ended his tenure a different way, but instead acted the way he’d acted for the previous two years — as a supplicant for Donald Trump. washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
