How Paul Ryan thinks about Donald Trump
I don’t think it’s just philosophy, I don’t think it’s just policy, and I don’t think it’s just temperament, but I think it’s all of those things together that makes Trump a pretty toxic mix and very much at odds with Ryan’s view of the world.
.. And then there’s the cruelty and the crudeness of Donald Trump — the mocking of reporters with physical disabilities, the mocking of POWs, the mocking of women for their looks, the stupid, infantile nicknames.
Then there’s the fact that Donald Trump is the shallowest person to ever run for public office when it comes to knowledge of public policy. The man doesn’t know anything and he has no interest in knowing anything, he has no intellectual curiosity. Someone like Paul Ryan whose life has been about the importance of ideas in politics, that’s got to be a problem.
.. It’s very important that there be a safe harbor for conservatives, particularly young conservatives now who look up and see Donald Trump and find him to be a repellent figure and wonder what happened to conservatism