Past Tense

“Paul Ryan in many ways is the antithesis of Donald Trump; he’s everything that Donald Trump is not. He’s a decent human being. He is a conservative. He is steeped in public policy. He cares about ideas. He’s a person who conducts himself with civility and grace in public life. He doesn’t put down his opponents.”  - Peter Wehner, a former policy aide to President George W. Bush and a personal and ideological compatriot of Ryan’s for two decades.

We can put that in the past tense now: “Paul Ryan used to be the antithesis of Donald Trump; he used to be everything Trump is not. He used to be a decent human being. He used to be a conservative. He used to care about ideas.” No longer!