Paul Ryan Will Get His Upper-Class Tax Cuts, Which Is Why He Supports Trump
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Above: “Those rubes won’t run themselves!”
It’s hilarious that the #NeverTrump rump within the Republican Party is also apparently in denial about Paul Ryan:
Kevin Williamson heatedly objects to my inclusion of Rand among the pantheon of right-wingers who have influenced conservative thought. “Where you don’t meet a lot of Randians is in the conservative world,” he explains, oddly skipping over the Speaker of the House and two members his cabinet, not to mention a very long list of prominent Republicans in Washington. As I noted in my piece, “None of these figures is an ‘Objectivist’ (the name for followers of Rand’s cultlike philosophy). They have, however, absorbed its central message of politics as a class war to liberate the makers from the takers.” Williamson objects to this characterization, too. Not only is Paul Ryan not a full-scale Objectivist who accepts Rand’s entire nutty worldview, as I concede, but Williamson argues that Rand’s ideas have left no real imprint on him at all! “Paul Ryan is not a Randian,” he insists. “There isn’t anything particularly Randian about his politics.”
There’s nothing Randian about Ryan’s politics? Not even his singular passion for reducing government in general, and taxation on the rich in particular, that has run through his entire public life? If you can’t see that this is the motivation behind Ryan’s actions, and that it might explain his willingness to work with Trump and overlook the president-elect’s blatant self-enrichment and Russian hacking that benefited his campaign, then you probably don’t have a good handle on the Republican Party’s acceptance of its authoritarian president.
Sure Paul Ryan has devoted his entire political career to taking from the poor and giving to the rich, and he says that he re-reads Atlas Shrugged and gives it to his aides, but there’s nothing Randian about his politics! Anyway, to see that Trump is a Republican in full just look at his lovingly Heritage Foundation-selected cabinet.