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Paul Ryan

Robert Kagan: “Will the people who selfishly refuse to put their own ambitions at risk finally act to save our democracy?”

John Fea   |  December 8, 2023

Last week we brought your attention to Robert Kagan’s Washington Post piece on the potential of a Trump dictatorship should he be elected in 2024. Kagan was back at the post yesterday with a piece titled, “The Trump dictatorship: How […]

Mike Johnson is not the only David Barton fan to be Speaker of the House of Representatives

John Fea   |  November 1, 2023

I was recently talking with a reporter who asked me if Mike Johnson was the first Speaker of the House to embrace the teachings of David Barton. I didn’t know the answer off the top of my head so after […]

Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6th insurrection

John Fea   |  July 11, 2022

This morning I am trying to reconcile two parts of a CNN story on Paul Ryan and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. First there is this: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack […]

Paul Ryan: “If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality…then we’re not going anywhere.”

John Fea   |  May 27, 2021

Tonight the former Speaker of the House will give a speech at the Reagan Library in California. John McCormick of The Wall Street Journal reports: “Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads,” Mr. Ryan will say, according to […]

Fox News is spreading the “Big Lie.” What will Paul Ryan do about it?

John Fea   |  May 5, 2021

Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2012 and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, sits on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors. I’ll let Charlie Sykes takes it from here in a piece titled “Paul Ryan, It’s […]