for the ryan years. trump isn t about tone. trumpism ostensibly is about identity politics which paul ryan explicitly said he hates more than anything. donald trump gave a voice to a lot of the rank and file republicans that felt frankly ail yen alienated by ryanism. he felt they didn t fight back. i agree. that will be a huge part of his legacy when people look back especially at the last two years. you re nodding. yes, it will be. and you saw him in your interview even doing the same dance that he and other republicans have been doing for the last year or so. you know, ryan is just a different kind of brand of republicanism and i think that if he could it s hard to imagine if entitlements were in the offing for him to achieve and the dynamics were different that he would be stepping down. i asked him the president marco rubio question. he deflected. anyway, i want to move to the
al cardenas, this is why the ryan retirement was seen as sort of another piece of evidence, another shoe to drop. i know that wasn t his intention. is that the way you read it? you know, you look at the generic number 7% is not all that much. most of us believe you have to get into double digits for the generics to make a lot of sense in terms of a land slide. but when you start looking at the specifics, which are, you know, turnout and independents, then it starts the case starts to get a little overwhelming. that was the empirical proof in front of us. i want to talk about trumpism versus ryanism. republican officials are afraid to take on trump because their base still likes the guy. the base still likes the guy, in part, because so few elected republicans take him on. this is the harsh reality for movement conservatives. this was sort of, mark leiebovih
to accomplishing what you came to do. it will be trumpism over ryanism and that must be a bitter pill to swallow. i don t see things like that. one of the first things that i did was tax reform and it was not done since i ve gotten my driver s license. it s done. since becoming speaker, i spent great time with our intelligence community, becoming greatly concerned about the state of the military. and so i really focused on the rebuild of the military and that is you in done and under way and i am very, very pleased with that. enterprise zones. i worked with enterprise zones when i worked with jack kemp. there are so many things and the one thing that obviously i care a great deal about is entitlement reform and in particular health care entitlement reform. i feel gratified that ever since i was budget chair of the house, every term passed a budget to balance the budget and pay down the debt. we have not gotten it through the senate or the white house.