In a discussion with conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, Ryan made an impassioned plea to his party to stand up to the Alt-Right—the euphemism du jour for the white nationalist movement that had taken over the Republican Party. “Intellectually do everything you can to defeat the alt-right. It is identity politics, it is antithetical to what we believe, and it’s a hijacking of our terms.…We have to go back and fight for our ground and re-win these ideas and marginalize these guys as best we can to the corners,” Ryan told Goldberg. If you can ignore the fact that Ryan did nothing in his
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