FOR all the Republican Party’s problems, it does not want for policy. Donald Trump has several clear-if-crazy promises: build a wall on the Mexican border, suspend Muslim immigration and renegotiate trade deals. To coincide with the convention, the party, as usual, released an official policy platform. And since early June Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been penning six papers laying out what he calls “A Better Way”. The problem for the Republicans is that these multiple plans frequently contradict one another.
It is no secret that Mr Ryan does not support Mr Trump’s trade- and immigrant-bashing populism. These areas have been left out of Mr Ryan’s agenda, to limit discord. But lapses in the Speaker’s restraint threaten the truce. At an event on July 18th he described Mr Trump as “not my kind of conservative”. In his speech the next day the Speaker barely mentioned Mr Trump, and said that his presidency would only provide a “chance” of a better way.
Mr Ryan also seems to have gone quiet on fiscal policy. For most of Barack Obama’s presidency, congressional Republicans have warned of the...Continue reading
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