Congressman Paul Ryan (R, WI-1) is Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, highest-ranking Republican and the party’s Big Daddy. He has not withdrawn his endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite having denounced Trump’s statements about once a week.
” … every time I hear Ryan on another Trump misdeed, I hear my bad-day self talking to my kids.
What? You’ve hit your sister again? You know you’re not supposed to do that. Do that again and you won’t get any bedtime stories! Seriously!
Another fib? Really, haven’t I told you that’s no good? No more of that, sweetie, or this time there really will be consequences!
Ryan can yammer on all he wants. At this point, it’s utterly meaningless and only counts as one more voice in a chorus of Trump enablement.”
— “Like an ineffective parent, Paul Ryan is just enabling Trump,” Danielle Allen, Washington Post Op Ed
Earlier:
“I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped school-yard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value – indeed exists – only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.”
— Charles Krauthammer, Philadelphia Inquirer
Related:
“Pataki: Trump ‘the ultimate spoiled rich kid,'” Mark Hensch, The Hill
“Trump’s Temperament: Temper-Bent,” NotionsCapital
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