Clearly Ryan and Joanne have bought into the "Big Lie"... In order to embrace this lie requires the ability to completely ignore reality and all of the evidence that reality has provided disproving it. 

What is the big lie? The Big Lie is the lie from which most of their other incidents of wrong thinking flows…it is the belief that the GOP is the party of the rich. The Big lie is the GOP represents only the ‘wealth class”, the big lie is that the GOP is in the pocket of Wall Street and Corporate America, the Big Lie is that everything Fox news and Talk Radio report are lies. The Big lie is that the GOP is the overfunded political machine hell bent on instituting anti American ideologies on the unsuspecting citizenry; suppress the vote, kink the elections and that every time they find themselves in the majority it’s only because they managed to scare and confuse the electorate… CONTINUED BELOW