Longtime Trump enabler Paul Ryan was 'sobbing' during Capitol coup

A new book about the astonishing pusillanimity of the Republican Party reveals that former House speaker and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan “found himself sobbing” during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. And that’s very sad for him—it really is. It’s also sad when dog owners leave their pooches in hot cars and kill them, which is kind of what the GOP as a whole has done with our country since Donald Trump slimed onto the scene in 2015.

Ryan was seduced by the siren song of Trump—which wasn’t a “song” so much as the rutting grunts of a Boone’s Farm-besotted squirrel monkey trying to mount a comically large slab of gyro meat—when he still hoped to make his wildest Ayn Randian dreams come true. These included handing even more of our nation’s wealth to the already obscenely wealthy and ensuring that fewer Americans have lifesaving health insurance coverage. 

But it’s one thing to screw over millions of vulnerable Americans while trying to shrink the federal government to the size of a Sunglass Hut—it’s quite another to watch your partner in evil take evil one step too far.