National Journal reports that “trade puts [Paul] Ryan on the same side as a president conservatives distrust and tests the relationships he has carefully built with those in the far right of his party.” The article does not name any far righties or show that Ryan has built relationships with them, carefully or otherwise. A quick search of the National Journal site finds 164 mentions of “far right” and 64 of “far left.” Glancing at the results, instances of the latter seem to be far more likely to come in quotes from conservatives than from the journalist authors. For National Journal, the “far left” exists mostly in conservative rhetoric while the “far right” is a matter of objective reality.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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