https://weeklysift.com/2018/04/16/can-i-stop-writing-about-paul-ryan-now/
«Ryan’s time will come after the Party of Trump has crashed and burned on its own. Then, he imagines, he can step forward as the savior who will lead the GOP back to sanity. Better yet, the Party will come to him and beg him to become it’s savior, the way it begged him to become Speaker.
For the next few years, the right place for an ambitious Republican to be is off stage, so that’s where Ryan is going.»
Thanks, Sharon Updike, for turning me on to The Weekly Sift.