Listening to Paul Ryan

That’s the Paul Ryan,

     who said the first of this week that he would no longer either campaign with or even defend Donald Trump;

     who averred that the election season taken “some dark — sometimes very dark — turns,” but enough about that;

     who wants instead to talk about conservative values: tax breaks for the rich, health insurance for the rich, more guns on the street, more coal in the hopper, fewer people at the polls - in short a brighter tomorrow, for the rich.