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And then you have people for whom Paul Ryan isn't right-wing enough. If you think that's curious, you might have a point. Invariably, Ryan produces budget proposals consisting of large tax cuts for the rich, combined with non-specified tax reforms and spending cuts, and expects this to somehow boost growth by several percentage point that this will magically leave public finances in no worse state.

Is there any evidence for this? No. Tax cuts for the rich and corporations aren't likely to work at a time in which:

• Profits are at record high
  
• Corporate cash holdings are at record high
  
• Corporate tax as a % of GDP is barely above 2%, way down from the 1950s
  
• The results of economic growth have basically all grown to the rich, with wages stagnant. And this hasn't produced faster growth, it has produced slower growth.
  

His programs cannot even be calculated for their effects as the loophole closures and spending cuts are almost entirely unspecified. 

But this guy is not sufficiently loony right-wing enough for the zealots at Breitbart, Drudge, Infowars, etc. So he had a challenger (a businessman named Nehlen). The good news is, the challenger failed miserably:

"If you look at the closed circle of Trump-boosters, high-profile Trump boosters — Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Drudge, Breitbart obviously — you could take the same language they used about Trump and they applied it to Nehlen, and that applies to both ideological and policy and their own sort of political analysis of the race," Mackowiak said. "To me, their overstatements in the Nehlen race should be a flashing yellow to anyone who wants to listen to their analysis or their predictions about Trump's political strength right now."

What Paul Ryan's primary could tell us about Donald Trump and the GOP - Business Insider

So there is just a sprinkling of hope left the party won't completely disintegrate into the ugly underbelly feeding itself on a daily diet of paranoid conspiracy theories.