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POLITICALLY, PAUL RYAN is suffering rigor mortis - his last impotent months as speaker of the House. The immediate cause of death was Donald Trump and the mindless tribalism that turned Ryan's Republican caucus into a snake pit.
Donald Trump's intellectual critics on the left and on the right have long viewed him in roughly similar terms - as an ignorant, authoritarian demagogue - but have disagreed on the intellectual tradition from which he has sprung. Anti-Trump conservatives have depicted him as a non-ideological figure, or even a progressive , who chose the Republican Party for no particular reason, and who shares none of its salient characteristics.