Ready or Not

“I’ll never support Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz does very little to appeal to me as a young voter,” Connor Maytnier, a Republican and a junior at Georgetown, told Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, at a town-hall event at the university last Wednesday. The night before, Trump had decisively won primaries in five states, widening his delegate lead over Cruz—and, much farther behind, John Kasich. Maytnier wanted to know if Ryan had any advice for young Republicans like him, who didn’t see a candidate to support. Ryan was sitting on the stage in shirtsleeves, and he tilted his head and shifted his body into a pose that communicated wry but earnest bemusement. “Unfortunately, this is not the first time I’ve had this question,” he said.