Posted on 07/20/2017 1:57:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Lower Lake, California. This is Brian. Glad you called, sir. How are you?
CALLER: Hello. Good morning, Rush. I wanted to ask you a question. As of now, the Republican Congress has failed to pass Trump’s legislation in the repeal and redo of Obamacare, and later in the year they’re gonna try taxes, which will probably also fail. How do you see the possibility of them losing the House and then Trump being impeached based on anything that Mueller may find, regardless how small it is?
RUSH: I am going to surprise you. I’m glad you asked me this question, because I don’t know if I would have naturally transitioned to this without some sort of stimuli such as that which you have provided with your excellent question. Many people, I think, are making a mistake in the Trump era by continuing to look at things in the traditional Republican-versus-Democrat way.
I think there’s a second mistake being made by many analysts and commentators who are wrong in their analysis of who Trump voters are. And that analysis would have you believe that every Trump voter is a populist and nationalist who doesn’t want America to be anywhere in the world, wants a wall built around the whole country, doesn’t want anybody coming in. Wants every bit of legislation to benefit only domestic Americans. To hell with foreign aid, the hell with foreign policy, they don’t want anything to do with it. This is the Never Trumper view of the Trump voter. And they are immersed in this belief that every one of you Trump voters is a populist, not a conservative. That every one of you is a nationalist, not a conservative.
And in their minds that’s a big, big difference. Populists are despised by Never Trumpers and by even Democrats because a populist is defined as somebody who doesn’t have an ideological core per se in the left-right paradigm, but instead is just a blind America firster no matter what constantly and to hell with what’s happening elsewhere in the world. And I don’t think that any of the traditional political science analysis of the Trump voter has yet understood what one of the primary motivations of Trump voters is.
I’ll tell you what I think it is. I think one of the primary motivating factors in Trump voters is anti-Democrat Party sentiment and anti-leftist sentiment. I think that a lot of the people that voted for Trump voted for Trump because they sensed in him the only guy in the Republican primary who would actually do battle with the left.
I think the people that we’re talking about, that Salena Zito finds in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, I think they despise liberalism. I think they hate the left. I think they’re scared of it. I think they’re angry with it. I think they believe that liberalism is destroying the fabric and the culture in this country and that that’s why they voted for Trump. Not because Trump was gonna close the borders.
These people, there may be some of that. As such, the answer to your question, if the Republicans do not repeal Obamacare, and if there is no tax reform, I do not think it is a guarantee that voters elect Democrats as a result. Because I can’t see the people who voted for Donald Trump ever voting for the Democrat no matter how angry they are at Republicans.
Now, I realize what I’m saying here. I think these people would not vote rather than vote for Democrats. Their anger at Republicans is profound and is going to get even deeper if they fail to advance the Trump agenda. But these people that voted for Trump are not going to vote for Democrats in response. Trump represents the only chance in their lifetimes to stop the left. They didn’t think that about any other Republican in the primaries. And everybody’s missing this. Everybody thinks it’s populism and nationalism, and they’re missing what has really irritated all of us for 25 years!
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RUSH: Let me expand on this a bit. Speaking personally for many of the past — I’ll go back to 2001, the inauguration of George W. Bush, but even back during the Clintons, one thing that has been really frustrating to me about the Republican Party and many in the conservative movement, is there seems to be much less detectable energy toward stopping the left. It always frustrated me. It seems to me that’s the whole point here.
Naturally the right wants to win elections, Republicans want to win elections, but I got the impression that many of them just wanted to win the election just to win it. Just to get the committee chairmanships. Just be in charge of the money that holding the committee chairmanship gives you if you’re in the Senate. But an agenda that actually stopped the corruption and the destruction of liberalism, I didn’t see much of it.
I didn’t see much push-back against it, and yet that’s what’s of paramount importance to me and always has been. I thought conservatism is the best answer to it. But conservatism is never gonna have a prayer if you don’t also at the same time have some commitment to stopping the destruction and the overall transformation the left is attempting on this country. And I think Trump voters are exactly that. This is why, from the moment Trump got into this, I always thought he could win. And not long after he got into it I thought he was gonna win.
And I’ve understood the bond that his supporters have for him, and I have never, never bought into this idea that Trump supporters are this newly discovered, previously hidden group of nationalists and populists and this so-called alt-right stuff, which has a very narrow view of the United States’ role in the world. I’ve always thought that what Trump represented to a majority of his voters was a vehicle to stop Obamaism, to reverse it.
The Republicans were saying that’s what they wanted to do, but now look at the moment of truth; it isn’t what they want to do, is it? Trump does. Seriously attack the judiciary, roll that back, appoint as many conservatives to it as you can, not populists, but conservatives. I think a whole lot of people in the Midwest where a lot of commentators do not go and do not live and do not understand, I think a lot of Trump’s voters have, as one of their primary objectives, just stopping the cultural corruption that’s taking place. The corruption in education. The corruption that’s taking place in our foreign policy. The corruption at every level of government.
In essence, they want to stop the transformation of this country away from the way it was founded into something it was never intended to be. And if truth be known, they haven’t seen much of that fight from the Republican Party! They voted for the Republican Party because that’s the only vessel there was if you were gonna stop the Democrats.
My point is, caller’s question: Do you think if the Republicans don’t do health care, if they don’t repeal it and taxes, do you think they will lose the House and Trump will get impeached?
Maybe. But it isn’t gonna be because Trump voters vote Democrat. That’s not how it’s gonna happen. If it happens, it’s gonna be because Trump voters stay home. And I don’t know what they’re gonna do. It’s too soon to predict right now. The midterms are still a year and a half away, and anything can happen. Just look at the last 24 hours; as Mr. Snerdley described, all hell broke loose.
Do you see Trump voters, people that elected Donald Trump, do you see them voting for Chuck Schumer to run the Senate? Even if they hate McConnell, even if they don’t like Ryan, I don’t see them turning around and voting, unless, unless they are so mad that all they now want to do is punish Republicans and to hell with it. If they give up and assume that there’s no way of stopping the left, that Trump’s not enough to do it, then I can see them maybe voting, but it’s not because they’re ever gonna agree with the Democrats. It’s not gonna be because they agree with the Democrats, liberalism, socialism, it’s not gonna be because of that.
If the Republicans lose the House, it’s not gonna be because of Donald Trump. If the Republicans lose the House, it’s gonna be because Trump voters have decided they want to punish them. Do not doubt me here. If Democrats win the House, it isn’t going to be the result of Trump voters disgusted with him. Now, the media is gonna try to paint that exact story. Reuters already doing it now. One out of every eight Trump voters are dissatisfied, wish they could vote again.
It’s a bogus poll! They didn’t talk to people in places where Trump has a lot of voters. They did LA, San Francisco, New York. I’m surprised it was only one out of eight voters they found that regret voting for Trump. If there’s anger at Trump, it’s not policy related. If there’s anger at Trump, it’s because he hasn’t been able to work the magic they thought he’d be able to work or tweeting, the scandals or whatever.
But I’m telling you — do not doubt me on this — Trump was elected because a majority of his voters thinks the left needs to be stopped and he was the only vehicle for it. I’m not saying there was not an emotional connection to Trump. There was. I was the first to categorize it, explain it, and detail it for people. And it’s deep.
Trump voters are getting a first hand view of the corrupt power of the Federal-crony-capitalist-media-globalist-NWO-leftist SWAMP in action.
I was a warm Trump voter in November (anyone but Hillary) but now having witnessed this slow-moving deep-state coup, I am hot.
Same thing... no difference
VERY few Trump voters have changed their minds...
don’t forget, it was the media and the 8 long years of obama as the reason Trump won.. he promised a change... there is no chance we have turned in favor of the media or the dems... there is no way!!! Only the really mixed up individuals would listen to the lies being told by the media about Trump... only the very loose brained ones would take any of it as truth... we know it’s all lies.. and they are the ones are most upset with.. they have lost all credibility!
A much more likely outcome of all this uproar is that a LOT of incumbent RINOs will get “primaried” off the ballot. That remains the best and most viable option, but it takes a lot of concentrated study and action early in the election season.
First find potential substitutes for the targeted RINO, then make sure he (or she) is a thoroughly vetted alternative.
No need to put in a carbon copy of the incumbent. Holding of the nose only carries you so far when it comes to “change”.
Trump needs to play this for all its worth. Him against the total DC swamp at every opportunity.
Frame the entire narrative like that. Hell, they won’t implement any of his agenda and slow walking everything else.
Muddy the waters for all its worth in the face of their onslaught/attacks.
The Left cannot be “stopped” in a Democracy or Republic where the left controls the money. As long as money can be created and banks can lend more than they have, the left will control the money.
Primarying them off the ballot accomplishes only the replacement of pigs at the trough with different pigs at the trough. How many of the Tea Party candidates that got elected were not nosing up to the trough within days of taking their seats? within hours, even.
This is EXACTLY what needs to happen.......
There was an interesting story in the NYTimes a few days ago. A Democrat consultant working for the DNC to help win close House races in 2018 was shocked to find that Republican support for Trump in those districts is stronger today than it was on Election Day in 2016.
So one of eight voters have cooled on Trump?
That’s 12.5% which means the president has maintained 88% of his voters.
I will take those numbers any day. Especially in the face of non ztop attacks by the media filth.
Democrats aren't worried about that. They have cemeteries full of voters who will vote, vote early, and vote often.
Not staying home, more importantly, Trump’s Army will be active in the primaries! MAGA!
About Those Trump Supporters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570265/posts
Watch President Trump’s rally in Ohio on Tuesday and witness the huge crowds and enthusiasm for our awesome President.
Even Rush doesn’t get it; we’re not staying home in 2018; There’s a lot of Swamp to clean up and feces to shovel that includes treasonous corrupt RATs, Deep State bottom feeders as well as GOP Elites and miscellaneous other snakes in the GOP. We’re fighting for our freedom and our country. Case closed!
Go Trump, MAGA!!!!
Stay home?? No.
Trump was the ONLY reason I voted in ‘16. Without him it would have been the first election I would have missed in 50 years.
After witnessing the (in)actions of the GOP since January, I see no purpose whatever in casting a ballot in ‘18. Should this lead to impeachment proceedings, all the better. Perhaps that is exactly what is needed to get patriotic Americans off their butts and into the streets with pitchforks, torches and whatever other impliments of destruction needed to straighten out our elected “representatives.” What is going on now in DC should convince all that a political solution to what ails this nation is nothing but a dream.
We need just one SAFE/LEAN DEMOCRAT seat in the senate to get the message across. Which one should it be? Talk to me.
Primaries anyone?
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