Better than what?
The Speaker’s policies are the best a divided party has to offer
FOR all the Republican Party’s problems, it does not want for policy. Donald Trump has several clear-if-crazy promises: build a wall on the Mexican border, suspend Muslim immigration and renegotiate trade deals. To coincide with the convention, the party, as usual, released an official policy platform. And since early June Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been penning six papers laying out what he calls “A Better Way”. The problem for the Republicans is that these multiple plans frequently contradict one another.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Better than what?”
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