When his country needed him, Paul Ryan didn't answer

Paul Ryan, who said Wednesday he would retire from Congress at the end of the year, enabled the worst of President Donald Trump’s faults.

The speaker of the House of Representatives helped put our country on the path to constitutional crisis, impeachment, tyranny or worse. When his country and his party needed him most, Ryan did not answer the call.

The Constitution envisioned an independent legislative branch that would counter any tendency of the executive toward despotism, corruption or mere incompetence. Ryan failed us and the Founding Fathers by ignoring his sworn duty to be the constitutional counterweight to Trump.

Ryan could have ensured that Trump was held to high standards of ethical conduct.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/when-his-country-needed-him-paul-ryan-didnt-answer-2018-04-11