Paul Ryan Just Gave a Speech That Left Conservatives Shaking Their Heads
It’s no secret the Republican establishment despises Donald Trump.
And it’s not talking out of turn to suggest party elites fight back against Conservatives who challenge the status quo more aggressively than they ever did Barack Obama.
Both these truths were on full display in a speech delivered by Speaker Paul Ryan on the state of American politics.
Without naming the Republican frontrunner, Ryan blasted Trump for his pro-America, populist campaign.
Ryan has long been in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants, free trade deals that benefit globalist corporations at the expense of the American middle class, and military intervention in countless countries.
This policy platform has been turned on its head by Trump’s campaign, which attacks each of the pillars of “inside the beltway” consensus on issues such as immigration, trade and war.
Trump is the most direct challenge to the establishment’s grip on power and they are striking back.
Politico reports on Ryan’s speech:
Standing in the same room he assumed the Speakership five months ago, Ryan took aim at the core of Trump’s message.
He decried identity politics, criticizing those who pit groups of Americans against each other. He said the nation’s political system doesn’t need to be this bad. He accused both parties of staying comfortably in their corners, only talking to those who agree with them.
Ryan also looked beyond 2016, saying he didn’t want to “talk about politics as it is today, I want to talk about what politics can be.”
“This is not just a lesson for young minds, but a message for all Americans,” he said to a room of mostly congressional interns. “Our political discourse, both the kind that we see on TV, and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. And it does not have to be this way. Now, a little skepticism? That’s really helpful. But when people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions. They come to lose faith in government. They lose faith in our future.”
Conservatives were quick to blast Ryan’s bizarre speech.
Appearing on The Sean Hannity Show, conservative talk show host, Laura Ingraham, took Ryan to task:
“Paul Ryan came out today and he gave a big speech and I think some of it was fine but he gave a big speech about how the tone of the Republican campaign was troubling.
When did Paul Ryan talk about Obama talking about punishing your enemies or every time someone’s called a nativist or a xenophobe or a whacko bird or “the loud people” as Lindsey Graham likes to call the actual voters? I didn’t hear Paul Ryan actually criticize that language used against conservatives.
But it’s always the conservatives, Trump one day and maybe it’s Cruz the next day. It would be nice if they actually talked about what the Democrats have done to this country and tone and with the insults as you nailed Ramos on.”
Ryan joined his former running mate, Mitt Romney, in taking Donald Trump to task and blaming him for the state of American politics, despite all the evidence pointing the blame at the leftfor violent protests and over-the-top language.
And yet when they had the opportunity to take on Barack Obama and deny him re-election, they treated him with kid gloves.
This was despite the Obama campaign accusing Mitt Romney of not paying his taxes, of being a felon and of killing a man’s wife by closing down a company and snatching away their health insurance.
Ryan and Romney have never condemned the outrageous rhetoric of Obama and his campaign henchmen.
And they have been sitting on their hands as “Black Lives Matter” and other organized groups of the professional left deploy hardened agitators to Trump rallies to incite riots.
So why are the GOP elites ignoring the left and zeroing in on Trump?
It’s part of a coordinated attack to steal the nomination from Trump at the Republican Convention this summer in Cleveland.
The GOP is not a political party, but an oligarchy run by elites pushing amnesty, global trade deals and foreign wars.
And Trump — and the nearly 50% of the Republican Party that he represents — is a clear and present danger to their ability to maintain power.
Poster Comment:
Ryan is just another RINO.