Editorial: Big ideas, small feats for Ryan
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Apr 12, 2018
2 minutes
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is leaving Congress before the harsh light of reality can reveal how little he's accomplished.
Ryan (R-Wis.) fashioned himself as an ideas-driven conservative, eager to apply small-government solutions to Washington's biggest fiscal problems. He was one of the self-described "Young Guns," a new, more youthful crop of leaders that was supposedly taking the Republican Party to new heights, both intellectually and politically. And he proved
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