The Democrats, no less than the media, slobbered all over the former House speaker for his recent anti-Trump speech. But their love is strictly conditioned on Ryan remaining a pajama-boy conservative.
What elite Republicans like Liz Cheney have failed to grasp is that Donald Trump didn’t realign the party. He tapped into something that had already happened and is now accelerating.
She was not “deplatformed,” shouted down, heckled, or physically attacked and forced to flee. She's free to stand before her constituents next year—and they’re free to vote her out.
At some point, the former Republican establishment will have to familiarize itself with the consequences of being defeated by Donald Trump within its own party.
The SAFE Act rightly prevents vulnerable minors from irrevocably disfiguring their bodies. That the Arkansas governor cannot see that and say so is pathetic.