Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) studied up on how to interact with people with narcissistic personality disorder.
His primary research tool…
Paul Ryan sounds very brave in this account of how brave he told Bob Woodward he was.
In reality, his research should have never ended; only accelerated as Hair Furor spiraled into insanity.
First comment w/o reading the article and only going by the headline and photo is that Ryan would like us all to think that TFFG doesn’t have NPD, but is normal. 
Hey Paul if he was so normal why did you step away?
Researched…and then proceeded to keep his opinion to himself, do nothing, and support his party over his country.
Just like every Republican.
Brave, brave Sir Robin Ryan…
Nice picture TPM!
If true, he’s smarter than most Rethuglicans.
“Bon Woodward” ??
Bob’s good brother?"
Why study for weeks?..
Just say, “OK”
Just curious how many other members knew and how often it was discussed.
I’m guessing all and a lot.
OK now having read the article well Paulie you’re known by the company that you keep. Oh and you helped build that FFG.
And left with a lovely bunch of coconuts.
These accounts of how the ‘good’ republicans identified how sick trump was, how he was such an existential danger to us, how immoral, amoral, corrupt etc. he was, and never did one damn thing about it but now are almost demanding for the rest of us to give them a cookie or whatever are growing extraordinarily tiresome.
these are the folks who should also never be allowed to have a peaceful meal in public ever again. I’m done with them.
I think a lot of them skip the time consuming research step, but the rest is pro forma GOP.
Which is why the GOP senators jumped on the opportunity to remove him from office. Twice.
Now that it’s increasingly accepted that Trumpf is nuts and dangerous, Ryan is scrambling to crawl out of the pit of shit he willingly jumped into when things looked good. A fucking weasel to the end.
Researched & Studied ?
As in … how to learn the skill?
… based on the preening posing personality he frequently displayed (augmented with grandiose exaggerations) … he probably grasped the topic very quickly.
Yep when Ryan was faced with an existential threat…well then see
retreated from the battle field.
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For weeks? Criminy, we all spent four facking years researching NPD, every single day when we checked the morning’s headlines.