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Paul Ryan is once again being cast as a pariah

Paul Ryan is getting the hate treatment -- again.

The former GOP House speaker and 2012 vice presidential candidate is a unifying figure these days. Liberals have long despised him -- unfairly in my mind. Anti-Trump conservatives are infuriated by his "surrender to Trumpism," in the words of Charlie Sykes, editor-in-chief of the Bulwark.

And, of course, the Trumpian true believers have long despised Ryan.

The latest round of vitriol makes sense, of course. The Ryan haters are just following President

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