#PaulRyan personifies conservatism’s decline. Ryan was willing to do anything, including enabling #Trump‘s abuses, to pass tax cuts. He got the tax cuts. The price to him and his party is immense. And now Ryan will be gone. My columnhttps://t.co/grxei3sAEX

— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 12, 2018

Here is a taste of Dionne’s column at The Washington Post:

Paul D. Ryan started his political life hoping to be the champion of a sunny, forward-looking conservatism. He will step down from the House speakership as the personification of conservatism’s decline.

One is tempted to call the Wisconsin Republican’s journey tragic, the tale of a young, idealistic family man transformed into an enabler for the most morally indifferent and utterly selfish president in our nation’s history.

It’s hard to imagine that the 28-year-old who entered Congress in 1999 thought fate would lead him to protect a chief executive under scrutiny for suspected involvement in a payoff to a porn star and potential entanglements with Russian interference in our election.

Read the rest here.