Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Mitt Romney’s Lonely Candidacy -- New York Magazine

Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Mitt Romney’s Lonely Candidacy -- New York Magazine: And now, just a week after Romney seemed poised to become president, there is no segment of the Republican Party that could be called Romneyist. Paul Ryan and his young cohort—far more ideological, natural political animals—have their own emotional connection, and their politics deftly channel the bristling outsider individualism of their supporters. What Romney could offer was not a philosophy but something at once more intimate and more limited: only the capacities of a single individual, himself.