What’s the Resistance Movement Doing to the Country?

RUSH: This entire resistance movement, what does it all mean, what does it really mean in terms of our country’s future?

What does it mean that the Democrat Party you and I grew up with doesn’t exist anymore? What does it mean that the Democrat Party has been taken over by the radical left, which is literally resisting everything, and they are refusing to acknowledge and tolerate and deal with the fact that they lose elections now and then. We’re getting to the point that they will not accept losing. They will not tolerate others winning and are not going to go away until they can tear all that down. This is really serious stuff if you ask me. It’s more than just chronicling what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. It’s where is all this taking us?

I had a charity golf tournament yesterday, and I had a chance to speak with Gary Player for an extended period of time. He’s South African, one of the greatest professional golfers ever. And he and Jack Nicklaus did a clinic for the participants at the tournament, which was at Nicklaus’s club, the Bear’s Club up in Jupiter. Boy, is it nice.

Gary Nicklaus, Jack’s son, was part of the festivities. He’s a great guy too. It was really a great day. I had a lot of people that came up and wanted to chat. And one of the things I’m continually asked now is not if I am aware of some recent example of outrageous behavior by the left, but people are becoming increasingly concerned about what does it mean. This is not the usual Democrat opposition.

When the left can get away with, like this professor at Fresno State, get away with wishing more Bushes would die, and she’s gonna end up not being punished by Fresno State. She’s gonna totally get away with it. People have an awareness, a sensitivity that something’s amiss here, something’s awry, and it isn’t good. And I was talking to people about it. The way I explain this to people is the analogy that I’ve used about America during World War II and America today.

We had divisions in World War II. We had disagreements. We had competing ideologies. We had competing political parties. But back then, losers lost, accommodated. They tried to figure out what they did that went wrong with the voters and tried to correct and become winners the next time around.

There was an implicit, applied agreement that we were all in this together and that, regardless of differences, there was a singular thing that bound us together. And that is we’re all Americans, and that counted for something. That meant a lot. American was the greatest place on earth. America is where everybody wanted to come to be the best they could be, to make the most of their lives. It still is. But it’s changing.

If something happened today akin to World War II, I don’t know that we have anything that binds us together as a country anymore — and this is more than just my saying that we don’t have any common ground to reach across the aisle and come to agreements with people. I don’t really know what binds us together with the radical left, which is taking over the Democrat Party. They’re not a fringe. They’ve been fringe for most of the last 50 years, but they are now the mainstream of the Democrat Party.

I don’t know what binds us together as Americans because the group of people I’m talking about is not proud of being American. They’re not proud of America. They think America is the problem in the world. They don’t think of America as the solution. They don’t think of America as having any kind of moral authority. We’re not the good guys — and it’s worse than that. We are, in many of their eyes, the bad guys. And this country must be drastically cut down, drastically remade, transformed, or what have you.

So you have this little story here about how the Republicans now are nervous — the Republicans are very worried — even after they won. Why this matters instead of the fact that it’s happening is where we next need to take this, ’cause we can sit here and document all day long the examples of unfairness, of bias, of insanity, of lunacy on the left. But what does it actually mean? Another analogy. Thirty years ago when this program started and they started calling us Nazis — and they start calling us racists and sexists, and they’d do this crazy stuff like Global Peace March — we laughed at ’em.

We laughed at everything they were talking about because we said to ourselves, “There’s no way anyone’s gonna believe this.” Thirty years later, a lot of people have ended up believing what is genuine (to us) sanity. What we used to laugh at and (laughing) think, “Nobody could ever really believe that,” they do. They do, and now when they start labeling people as Nazis, they are dead serious, and you’ll note that it is not categorically rejected. It is considered! People think about it. People begin to intellectually analyze the comparison. “Is there a grain of truth to it?” some people say. It’s a slowly creeping, insidious sickness.

RUSH: But what I mean by this resistance business, I’ve been sharing with you the fact that what I believe the Russia Trump collusion movement has really been about. I mean, the big, overall thing it’s been about is getting rid of Trump, but how? I really believe that the effort of all of these different elements of the pursuit of Trump has been designed to drive Trump’s approval numbers down to the thirties and hopefully the twenties.

I think they have also wanted to drive Donald Trump insane. I think they want to make him sick. I’m talking physically, mentally ill. I think they want to do it. They don’t have any evidence whatsoever to get rid of him, but note how that’s not stopping them. They’ve got no evidence that Trump has broken any law. There is no evidence Trump colluded. That hasn’t stopped them, has it? They just keep making it up. They keep applying the pressure — and when one vein bottoms out and fails, they open a new one.

They do not accept being rejected. They do not accept that they are failing. They keep going on their objective of destroying Donald Trump. Now, what is this doing to the country as they do this? That’s what we need to be discussing. Because the fact that they’re doing it is obvious now, and noting how they’re doing it and what they’re doing each day, there’s no news in that anymore. “What is causing?” is the focal point.

RUSH: Let me go back to how the left is dealing with Trump. What really happened? What? Let’s get really down to the basics.

We had a presidential election that Trump won. It was a duly constituted and fair election. There has been no evidence — there’s not a shred of evidence anywhere — that there was any kind of fraud or chicanery resulting in Trump’s win or that explains Trump’s win. Now, in the old days, when a party won the presidency, the out-of-power party accepted it, went along with it, and tried to make adjustments to win the next time.

And they did their best to politically obstruct the winner and his party from advancing an agenda. But despite that, there was a comity or there was a unity about us all being Americans. There was an acknowledgment that there are winners and losers and that it can change with every election. And trying to win every election became the objective. Of course, you can’t win them all. But some years ago, when the left began losing elections, they refused to accept it. Now, this is not a minor point.

The most recent example is Florida 2000 — the presidential election in 2000 and the Florida recount — where George Bush was named president after having duly won the election. All the Supreme Court did was shut down an ongoing, irrelevant count. The election had been certified. Everything in the Florida recount was an attempt to overthrow and reverse a duly constituted election — and then what happened after that? For the next eight years, the Democrat Party spent every waking hour trying to ruin George W. Bush, trying to paralyze his presidency, trying to drive his polling numbers down to the thirties.

They knew they would never be able to impeach Bush, but they wanted to render his presidency absolutely paralyzed. They made no bones about who they were going to destroy or try to destroy when they were doing it. All this time, there’s not a single defense of Bush from his own team, from his own administration. The left got away with every lie, every stinking mischaracterization and lie about Bush, to the point that by the end of Bush’s term, the U.S. military was nothing more than a bunch of terrorists who were terrorizing Iraqi women and children at night in their homes.

There were elected Democrats who were postulating this from the floor of the House and the floor of the Senate. We had Dick Durbin comparing uniformed military personnel to Pol Pot, a mass murderer in Cambodia. And it stuck. He was ridiculed for it here, but not by anybody on the left, and not by anybody in the media.

This refusal — and when I say refusal to accept defeat, we have in this country an honor system. Take it to the world of sports. Football game, baseball game, take your pick. Let’s take everything happening in politics and move it to, say, it’s baseball season now so let’s just do baseball. After a nine-inning game, the people, the team that lost refuses to accept that the game is over, refuses to accept that the other team won and embarks on a mission to destroy the entire game of baseball.

Not just the game that they lost, but the entire institution of the game by calling into question everybody’s integrity on the winning side. And by doing everything they can to erase the victors and to drum up public support for the idea that the game of baseball is dishonest, it’s unfair, because the wrong team lost. How long would it be put up with? It wouldn’t even get off the ground. Something like that would not even get off the ground.

Yet in American politics, it’s not only off the ground, it is gaining ground left and right. Donald Trump wins an election. From the very night of his election victory, the people who lost this election have refused to obey common decency, they have refused to obey the law. The law itself is now unequal. On the Trump side, people are being accused of doing things they didn’t do and are being rendered broke, penniless, defending themselves, while people on the Hillary side actually did break the law, actually did collude, actually did all of these things which are illegal, and they’re not being held accountable for a single bit of it.

Sorry, folks. We cannot have a country where some people are held accountable and other people aren’t. And particularly when people who are thought in their own minds to be at the pinnacle of power, when they’re above the law, when they’re unaccountable and the Drive-By Media fully supports that premise, sorry, folks, where are we headed? It’s not enough to note that it is happening. It is happening. What does it all mean?

They thought they would get rid of Trump in six months. They haven’t. They wanted to drive Trump’s approval number down to 20. That would be the best way to get rid of him. There isn’t any evidence that there was election fraud. There isn’t any evidence that Trump cheated. All there is is Trump and the fact that they hate him, and they’re angry that they lost. And now these baseless allegations that he’s unsophisticated, unfit, and by virtue, so are all of you who voted for him. It has been a ceaseless, a never-ending personal political assassination that is underway to this very day.

And when one element of it fails — I think we have to assume now that the Mueller element has failed — after a year and a half, there is no evidence of Russian collusion, there is no evidence that Trump did anything illegal or cheated in any way to win the election. Despite there being no evidence, what’s the left doing? Mounting new charges out of thin air, indicting new people, bringing new people that had nothing to do with anything in and putting them under the microscope to destroy them.

They call this the resistance, but this isn’t resistance. We’re so far beyond resistance now. These people are doing much more than resisting. They are literally turning the law upside down. They are ignoring the law when it applies to them. They are accusing people who have not broken the law of having broken the law and forcing those people to either cop pleas or defend themselves, and in the process, go broke and lose their homes, destroy their families. All of this on no evidence that anything of the original charge that the election was tampered with and is therefore illegitimate, there’s no evidence for it.

It continues unabated. And as these people fail in every element that they try to get rid of Trump, what then happens? Trump becomes even worse. Trump is Hitler. Trump is no different than Mao Tse-tung. Trump is hideous. They keep throwing out these inane, insane, crazy allegations in their unstopping attempt, their never-ending attempt to create anti-Trump public opinion which will then facilitate them getting what they want, and that is him thrown out of office.

Part of it it’s personal with Trump, but another element of it has nothing to do with Trump. It’s just the fact that they lost. And that’s totally unacceptable. And what does that mean? Where does that take us? When the losers in a constitutional republic and in a, quote, unquote, democracy when the losers refuse to acknowledge it and then start tearing down as much of the system as they can in anger and frustration for the express purpose of reinstalling themselves in power, what is this doing to the country?

No good, is what it’s doing. It becomes crazier, it gets more insane each and every day. Where this is headed, folks, resistance isn’t gonna be enough. Because resistance is not gonna get them what they want. And they’re not gonna stop. They don’t accept defeat. And when I say don’t accept defeat, I don’t mean in an intellectual sense, refusing to say, “Oops, we lost.” It’s worse than that. It is that defeat is not possible. Defeat is intolerable. And not from the Winston Churchill, “Never give up, keep trying harder,” kind of thing. It’s from an entitlement standpoint, from an angry entitlement standpoint.

None of this is any good. It’s gonna lead to more unrest. It’s gonna lead to more anger. And in the process, these people are tearing the country apart, which, by the way, is also an objective.

We know what this will do to the country. The thugs on the left are eager to have absolute power and willing to roll the dice, knowing that a win will cement their rule for centuries, while even with a loss they will get another chance in two generations. Normal people? We are praying that we can avoid the inevitable, but following that childhood motto: “Be Prepared”.

Unrelated comment: I will be visiting Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and other major sites from our first Civil War this year and reflecting on the lessons learned . . . and those forgotten.

Listened to this portion of Rush, and he was on fire!

Saying “Rush is right” is often an understatement.

There is no way that Truman, JFK, 1976’s version of Jimmy Carter, LBJ or possibly even 1992’s version of Bill Clinton could win the Dem nomination today.

Awww, look at the hitler mustache they put on Trump. Everyone they don’t like is hitler while acting just like him.

We need a multi-million person march on Washington DC with the stated purpose to oppose the harassment and obstruction of the Presidency of Donald Trump.

I was listening to that portion of the show too.

Rush was on fire, and even though he was talking about a terrible problem our country faces, it was very encouraging to hear it describe so clearly.

Definition of treason

1 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance

Silly Republicans, we thought we had to wait out 8 years of a Kenyan POTUS and hope for better days. Little did we know we could have been stomping our feet, making signs, and breaking windows that whole time.

DNC = CPUSA

That’s all you need to know to understand today’s leftism.

We need a multi-million person march on Washington DC with the stated purpose to oppose the harassment and obstruction of the Presidency of Donald Trump.

I am with you RatRipper. I have been saying this for some time. We need to deliver the Deep State a little taste of what they'll be dealing with if they actually take out Trump.

We need to scare up somebody with enough standing and following to motivate a big movement and turnout. I think I am going to message Sean Hannity for suggestions. May even try to call Rush Limbaugh on Friday.

And what does that mean? Where does that take us? When the losers in a constitutional republic and in a, quote, unquote, democracy when the losers refuse to acknowledge it and then start tearing down as much of the system as they can in anger and frustration for the express purpose of reinstalling themselves in power, what is this doing to the country?

It means that if the Blue Seditionists get their way, when it's time for the Red Team to "Resist", things are gonna get REAL ugly.

They used their tools with no compunction - we'll use our tools with no compunction.

Master Hogg, the tranny @ss-pirate, ain't a-gonna like them apples...

1% control the World

4% are sellout puppets

90% are asleep

5% know & are trying to wake up the 90%

The 1% don’t want the 5% waking up the 90%

It’s going to have to come down to a final confrontation with the Left and soon. Perhaps in 2020. I’ve warned conservatives about this for years. I’m a former Leftist. I know they they operate. They’re violent, always. Be prepared for a fight.

Rush.....” When the losers in a constitutional republic and in a, quote, unquote, democracy ...when the losers refuse to acknowledge it and then start ‘tearing down as much of the system as they can’ ....”

It’s called Treason!......”the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.....the crime of helping your country’s enemies”............”to impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance.”

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