Wither Paul Ryan

In an interesting piece on Paul Ryan, Politico says the speaker is planning on packing it in.

If true this would mark the passing of a generation of conservatives such as myself.

We grew up in the age of Reagan and Bush and the only Democrat president we remembered was Jimmy Carter.

New Gingrich shaped us politically. This was the 90's, the era of policy wonkism with ideas coming up from the think tanks like Heritage and CATO and being adopted by a second generation of conservatives who wanted to reform the way government worked.

We used to have ideas on everything from garbage collection, to schools, to Medicare and Social Security reform.

Politically this never really worked and few of the ideas ever really got adopted federally. No one really gives a crap about school vouchers.

The failure of the likes of Ryan and myself led to Trump. All hail Trump.

Via Time

You don't get much more Gen-X than this