We deserve to be optimistic. We deserve to feel hope. But we must also take caution against complacency.

The authors used two major national surveys from before the election, and combined them with deep-dive measures of racist and sexist attitudes and dissatisfaction with personal economic conditions. They concluded, “We find that while economic considerations were an important part of the story, racial attitudes and sexism were much more strongly related to support for Trump.”

Destined for greatness, so many said. Why didn’t he realize it?

The forthcoming implosion of Mr. Ryan’s party, and his imminent retreat to Wisconsin, illustrates the danger of hidebound ideological overconfidence.

Ryan must be clear: Any attempt by the president to quash the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is an attack on the rule of law. The House speaker should throw his support behind legislation to protect Mueller.

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On Charlie Sykes’ Daily Standard Podcast, Weekly Standard Editor-in-Chief Stephen F. Hayes and senior writer John McCormack talk about Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement announcement, and what it means for the House GOP.

While Ryan can point to many accomplishments in his career, his party’s failure to reform entitlements will probably have the biggest impact on future generations.

The speaker’s facilitating of Trump and Trumpism represented a failure of courage and leadership that has now ended a once promising career.

Wisconsin is pretty well convinced that Ryan quit over fear of Democrats—and there is much truth there. No politician gives up power without a push. Whether the hostility toward Ryan transfers to any GOP substitute, or if it will diminish now that Ryan is gone—thereby may hang the future of Wisconsin politics.

This is no surprise. But it does, nonetheless, add to the growing narrative about the fate which will unfold this fall for the Republican Party.

The outgoing speaker’s district will be in play this November.

He’s experienced a wave election before, but that time it helped him.

That’s the message on Supreme Court race, treasurer referendum. Was message received?

59 cities rank higher. New data may have lessons for state policymakers.

Ryan was the most important Republican in Washington from 2009 to 2016. He now seems like a throwback from a bygone era.

He was civil, well-informed, polite, and firm, the opposite of a table-pounding, demagogic extremist, and that probably just aggravated his critics on the left even more.