Can Donald Trump and Paul Ryan share the GOP?

It doesn't look good...

This is Paul Ryan's wake-up call.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan would probably like to dismiss Donald Trump's upending of GOP orthodoxy as a fluke. The Wisconsin Republican would surely prefer a comforting return to generic Republicanism: a sunny combo of Reagan-era supply-side economics, small government bromides, and "peace through strength" internationalism.

And indeed, that is pretty much the argument Ryan advanced Wednesday morning in his post-election press conference:

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.