It’s disappointing that House Speaker Paul Ryan chose to endorse presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for the White House.Yet given the absence of a viable, declared third-party candidate (including himself), Ryan’s options were severely limited, and by retaining the speakership, he protects the role from someone far more inflammatory and less policy-oriented.It also was at least somewhat hopeful to get a Politico article sent by Ryan’s press secretary about Ryan’s new slogan “offering an implicit contrast of Donald Trump’s rhetoric a day after throwing his support behind the presumptive Republican nominee. The slogan: ‘A Better Way.’”Ryan’s nod was far from enthusiastic — justified by his disbelief that a President Hillary Clinton would work with a conservative Congress, though it was a President Bill Clinton who worked with a Republican-held Congress to pass major welfare reforms heralded by Ryan and others. After eight long years of seeing his policy proposals stymied by the Obama Administration at every turn, Ryan’s frustration is understandable.And I share Ryan’s distrust of Clinton generally: the FBI investigation over her email impropriety that may have threatened national security, accepting foreign contributions to her foundation while she was Secretary of State, the failed “reset” with Russia, the wasted potential of…
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