Paul Ryan will retire from the House this November. He leaves behind him a legacy as a fraud, capable of attaining his legislative priorities only by swaddling them in white supremacy. Praised by elites as a wonk, his policies enjoy virtually no support in the mass public, and indeed, during his tenure as speaker, public appetite for government spending has increased dramatically.

The Anatomy of a Fraud

Paul Ryan leaves behind him a legacy as a fraud, capable of attaining his legislative priorities only by swaddling them in white supremacy.

Though he entered Washington praised by elites as a wonk capable of selling the conservative policy agenda through data, charm and intelligence, he leaves with this charade stripped away. His policies enjoy virtually no support in the mass public, and indeed, during his tenure as speaker, public appetite for government spending has increased dramatically. What little success Ryan achieved in upward redistribution, it was not through skillful legislating or popular appeal, but rather by crafting a strategic alliance with a party more concerned with creating a white ethnostate than balancing the budget.