Paul Ryan says “Republicans just earned a mandate. We are going to hit the ground running.” The mandate part is simply baloney. The Donald was shoehorned into the White House by the quirkiness of the Electoral College. He lost the popular vote by almost three million. That is really a mandate for Clinton. Trump and Ryan and all the others that cannot resist the opportunity to gloat should be reminded of this fact every time they use the Trump victory as justification for one of their antisocial moves. As far as “hitting the ground running”, it’s beginning to look more like “spinning wheels” in Ryan’s case.