{"id":214126,"date":"2016-08-03T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/03\/my_advice_for_trump_take_it_ideologically_not_personally\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:31:17","slug":"my_advice_for_trump_take_it_ideologically_not_personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/03\/my_advice_for_trump_take_it_ideologically_not_personally\/","title":{"rendered":"My Advice for Trump: Take It Ideologically, Not Personally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  So I checked the email, and I get this question a lot. “Rush, do you have any input in the Trump campaign?” or, “Rush, is there anybody you can call?” or, “Rush, do you talk to Trump?”  The answer is no to all those three.  I\u2019ve not reached out to anyone. I do everything I do here, right here behind the Golden EIB Microphone.  It hasn\u2019t happened.  Look, it\u2019s simple what needs to happen here, folks.  I mean, I don\u2019t care how you answer the Hemmer question<\/a>.  I mean, some people would answer the Bill Hemmer question.<\/p>\n

Is politics upside down and are we looking at this all wrong, and are people who are supporting Trump not bothered by this at all? Who knows?  I do think politics has been turned upside down, and I do think a lot of the traditional way of analyzing and looking at things is outmoded in this campaign, \u2019cause you can\u2019t plug Trump into any of these formulas and blueprints that people use to analyze politics and to succeed in the politics business. <\/p>\n

But I think — and, again, this is advice that\u2019s worth exactly what it\u2019s costing Trump, which is nothing.  But I do believe that he\u2019s taking way too much of this personally.  And I think the reason he\u2019s taking it personally is because, A, it\u2019s his nature.  His whole life has been built on not accepting attacks, not ignoring them.  He answers them.  Somebody goes after him — if anybody tries to take him out, somebody tries to damage him or his business or his family — he doesn\u2019t just look the other way and bide his time and come back for \u2019em later.<\/p>\n

He hits \u2019em at that moment.  It\u2019s his nature.  Now he\u2019s in presidential politics.  His nature is triumphant and dominant, and that\u2019s the way he\u2019s doing it.  But what he doesn\u2019t get is that throwing Khizr Khan and his wife on stage at the Democrat National Convention and any of these other attacks are not personal.  They really aren\u2019t.  Donald Trump is how old, 70-some-odd years, 60? I don\u2019t know. In his whole life, nobody ever called him a racist; nobody ever thought he was.  But now that he\u2019s running for president opposite a Democrat, guess what he is? <\/p>\n

He\u2019s a racist.  But I believe the reason that he takes everything so personally beyond his nature is (and I think I said this Monday) he doesn\u2019t have an ideological grounding.  It\u2019s just not how he looks at the world or people.  And so when the Democrats trot out people like Khizr Khan and his wife and they go after Trump, Trump takes it personally and wants to go out and destroy Khizr Khan and so forth — and it\u2019s Hillary.  Khizr Khan is there as part of a left-wing liberal strategy that has to be beaten back, not the guy personally.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Alicia in Lawrence, New Jersey.  You\u2019re first in this hour.  It\u2019s great to have you.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thank you.  I\u2019m about to be late for my lunch break just so I can disagree with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I\u2019m sorry.  I would have gotten to you earlier had I known you were on a budget of time.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  It\u2019s okay.  No problem.  Okay, don\u2019t take this the wrong way, but you said that Trump was taking things personally.  That was your analysis.  And I understand what you\u2019re saying, but I totally disagree.  And the reason I disagree — and I don\u2019t think you\u2019re intending to be condescending, but I think that the other people who are on TV are being condescending when they say he takes it personally and he\u2019s not doing the right thing.  They are being a little condescending.  This man is a businessman.  He\u2019s actually quite brilliant.  And he thinks with a different mentality. <\/p>\n

I think that you, with all due respect, definitely the political establishment, the media, they\u2019re in a bubble, okay?  They don\u2019t understand that what Donald Trump is doing, he\u2019s not taking it personally.  He\u2019s defending us.  He\u2019s not letting somebody run over us, which they\u2019re not used to a Republican doing.  Nobody\u2019s used to it.  When Mr. Khan, with all due respect, from my heart I feel for his loss, but when he pointed his finger and said, “Read the Constitution,” and pulled out the Constitution, he was saying that — I felt personally insulted, and I guarantee you that Trump supporters and a lot of other people felt personally insulted.  My two friends, my two girlfriends who are Democrats who switched over in the New Jersey primary to vote for Trump —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Wait.  You just said you took it personally.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  — and they\u2019re offended.  Absolutely.  He didn\u2019t take it personally, but he\u2019s defending us.  And we have had Republicans — I remember I became politically aware after 9\/11.  I had no idea.  My father told me to listen to you.  I started listening to you.  I didn\u2019t know politics or anything.  And I became politically aware, and I would always say, “Why does George Bush not defend what they\u2019re saying about Republicans?”  They\u2019re saying the most vile and horrible things, and he just sits there with a smile on his face.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I know.  Look, amen on that.  Look, look, look, look, I got a hard break here.  I can\u2019t move it.  I hope you can hold on and delay your lunch break, but if you can\u2019t, I understand.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Well, Alicia, New Jersey, couldn\u2019t hold on. She had to get back at work. But there\u2019s hardcore.  There\u2019s somebody who hung on hold, stayed on hold during her lunch hour — even beyond her allotted time — just to get on the program.  Trump supporters, they\u2019re committed.  And had I known she was on a lunch break and didn\u2019t have much time, I would have gotten to her call sooner, but we didn\u2019t know \u2019til she happened to mention that.  Now, I think she might misunderstand me when I say that Trump takes things personally.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an insult.  It\u2019s who he is.  He has got his whole life.  You attack him — you attack his business, his family — he\u2019s gonna hit you back, and he does take it personally.  He thinks that attacks on him are attacks on him.  When I say he\u2019s taking personally — to explain this — it\u2019s all rooted, folks, in the fact that he doesn\u2019t see people for their ideological identity.  He doesn\u2019t see liberals.  He doesn\u2019t see conservatives.  He would have trouble, I think, explaining beyond, “Yeah, I know liberals. They believe in Big Government and Santa Claus and all that.”<\/p>\n

Their tactics and their politics of personal destruction and the fact that they can\u2019t be honest about what they believe, they have to constantly lie to people about who they are and that the way they really advance is to destroy the character and integrity and reputations of their opponents? He doesn\u2019t see them that way.  He knows liberals. He has lived in New York all his life and he\u2019d had to get along with them. So he doesn\u2019t see them as a bunch of lying, conniving, sniveling, small-time pranksters who are out actually unable to be honest about what they believe. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, in New York, they can, when they\u2019re talking amongst themselves. Not when they got win a national election.  He just doesn\u2019t see that, and I think if he did, he would have reacted to the whole Khizr Khan thing differently.  He would have realized it\u2019s from the Democrat playbook.  He would have realized that that man being on stage was not even about Khizr Khan.  It was about the Democrats realizing they had an opportunity to destroy what they think is a myth that hurts them.  They have made a decision to sidle up to illegal immigrants. <\/p>\n

They have made a decision to sidle up to members of a religion who have people trying to destroy this country.  Democrats have decided, for some reason, that they want to get close to that religion, and they do not want to be in any way thought of as that religion being the home of terrorism. So they\u2019ve made a big point of saying that there is no terrorism in Islam, that these militant Islamists, ISIS, Al-Qaeda — Obama on down will tell you — “No, no, no! That\u2019s not Islam! Islam is the religion of peace.”  So guess what Mr. Khan does? <\/p>\n

He gives them a living, breathing, one-time example that what you and what Republicans and conservatives and what people who fear Islam think is wrong.  Now, Khan baited Trump by waving his Constitution out there, but it was Khan that didn\u2019t know the Constitution.  It was Khan who doesn\u2019t know that the Constitution doesn\u2019t say a word about religious tests for regimens and immigrants.  It was Khan trying to imply that Trump doesn\u2019t understand liberty and freedom and therefore the Constitution\u2019s at risk. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s Mr. Khan, apparently, who doesn\u2019t understand that the Constitution does provide ample opportunity to determine who and who doesn\u2019t get into this country.  The Constitution does not say, “Anybody who wants in, gets in, because that\u2019s what liberty and freedom is.”  Look, it\u2019s not a big point.  I just think that if you have an ideological underpinning, it\u2019d be much easier to understand the real aim of these attacks.  Now, the real aim is Trump. I mean, they\u2019re trying to take him out.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to dissuade people from supporting him and so forth. But it would create a different response to it if there were an ideological understanding.  So when I say he takes things personally, I don\u2019t mean he\u2019s got a thin skin.  I don\u2019t mean that he\u2019s a crybaby.  I don\u2019t mean that he\u2019s not capable of taking it.  That\u2019s not what I mean.  I\u2019m saying he misses the truly destructive nature of the attack.  But Alicia nailed something, and it\u2019s something that the inside-the-Beltway people are not getting, and they never will.<\/p>\n

She related it brilliantly to the same way we all felt when Bush let all of those attacks on him go by and never answered a\u2019one of them.  They were also attacks on us, and so she\u2019s saying, “Look, we\u2019re Trump supporters. We\u2019re watching this happen in the Democrat convention, and Mr. Khan\u2019s waving his little Constitution in his pocket. He\u2019s insulting all of us, not just Trump.”  So when Trump responds to it when other Republicans don\u2019t, they applaud. <\/p>\n

Other Republicans just let it all go, never say a word about it, pretend it didn\u2019t happen, or hope people forget it.  Trump doesn\u2019t.  Whatever he does it or however he does it, he responds to it, and his supporters think that he\u2019s defending them, too.  And he gets lots of credit for it, and that was the point that she was making, and I think it\u2019s a good point. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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