Paul Ryan has come full circle.
Before the former congressman was the speaker of the House of Representatives, before he was the Republican nominee for vice president, before he was chairman of the House Budget Committee, he was an unknown and lonely voice in the wilderness from Janesville, Wisconsin, pushing Washington to adopt wholesale reform of popular social safety net programs — entitlement programs — like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
American Renewal touches on much more than Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. It examines government spending from top to bottom and devotes a great deal of energy to monetary policy and preserving the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. But it is proposals to alter popular entitlement programs that are sure to throw a political monkey wrench into any effort to take up the advice laid out in Ryan’s book.
For a time, Ryan managed to transform a third-rail political issue into legislation passed by a Republican-controlled House. Amid all of this extrapolitical work, Ryan is still a large enough political figure that he is capable of fueling national headlines when he chooses to, as he did recently when asked to assess the state of the Republican Party vis-a-vis Trump.
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