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This is what Rush said today (from his website):

RUSH: Now, let’s go back to this Republican Party, new party, third-party business. Because you know something? I was thinking about this during the break. Remember when the Tea Party hit. The Tea Party sprung up in 2010. And we just had a caller who said that we need a third party, we need to form a third party, Trump needs to form a new party.

And I finally, after listening to the guy, said, “Why should we form the party? We’ve already done it. It’s already the Trump party. You can call it the Trump Republican Party, the Trump party, whatever you want to call it, but there’s already however many people voted for the guy, 70 million, whatever it is, there’s already that number of millions of people. Why should we abandon that party and form a new one?” The Tea Party think sprung up.

And I got a note, somebody said, “You said this exact same thing when the Tea Party came up. You said it’s our party. If you want to do it like it’s 1984 again, go out and find your own party.” Now, you ever wonder what happened to the Tea Party? Do you think it’s still out there? You think the Tea Party is still there? Some people do. I think the Republican Party, one thing that’s always amazed me, was not thrilled with the Tea Party. You remember this?

Now, even though I’d been doing this a long time, I still am relatively naive about a lot of things. I was admittedly surprised when I saw the Republican Party not care about the Tea Party, did not have any great interest in it. It wasn’t natural. They were just waiting to be brought into the fold, but the Republican Party, in Washington, the establishment Republican Party wanted no part of it. And I figured why. It’s because it was organic. It was because it was au natural.

It was not the product of one person who led a bunch of people to the Promised Land. It just evolved. And it evolved out of Obamacare. People were scared to death of the spending and the government control, you name it. And it just sprung up right out of the ground. And I learned that movements like that threaten establishment Washington. It’s hard to control ’em when there’s not a single or singular leader.

So the Republican Party, establishment Republican Party worked with the Democrats in Washington to do great damage to the Tea Party. And, folks, I think you had better keep a sharp eye, ’cause I think the same thing is going to be tried with the Trump movement. I can give you the examples over the years that I’ve done. The Republican Party was not big on Reagan. They were happy as hell when Reagan’s two terms ended. They couldn’t wait to get themselves back in charge of the party. What did they proceed to do but lose and throw it all away.

And they’re gonna try to co-opt what Trump has built, because it represents a threat. It depends on what Trump does. Whatever he decides to do in the future, does it involve this group of people? Does it involve the MAGA party, the MAGA group? And if it does, then the swamp GOP’s are gonna have a tough time taking control of it. But make no mistake, they’re going to try.