For a hot minute, it looked like it might happen. Weeks after GOP elites were forced to come to terms with the fact that Andy Serkis' latest motion-capture monster project, Donald Trump, had won their party's nomination, House Speaker Paul Ryan finally bestowed his blessing on the arrangement, and it looked for all the world as if Beltway Republicans might reach the end of their long, dark walkabout with Kübler-Ross' stages of grieving.
