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RUSH:\u00a0I said earlier during the speech and in my momentary commentary during the speech<\/a> that Trump\u2019s speech is actually a great introduction or transition for what I intended to lead the program or intend to lead the program with today.\u00a0 And this is gonna be a real challenge for me, I have to tell you, because I have here a column that I would love to read to you in entirety and I can\u2019t because it is 10 pages long.\u00a0 It prints out to 10 pages.\u00a0 So I spent a lot of time this morning highlighting those parts that I really want to focus on.<\/p>\n

And, if I had to synthesize the description of this, the column appears at the Claremont website, Claremont review of books, Claremont University.\u00a0 They are a highly respected conservative organization.\u00a0 Dr. Larry Arnn, who runs Hillsdale College, used to run Claremont.\u00a0 And there\u2019s a piece by somebody who is not using his name in the byline.\u00a0 He\u2019s using the name of a famous Roman, Publius Decius Mus, seeking to be anonymous here. \u00a0This piece is a shaming of the conservative intellectuals that comprise the Never Trump movement.<\/p>\n

It is shot between the eyes of conservative intellectuals who say that Trump is beneath them. They can\u2019t stomach Trump. They can\u2019t possibly vote for Trump. It would be distastefully, personally unacceptable and so forth.\u00a0 And the reason this piece appeals to me is because it validates so many of the instincts that I have had over the years, in recent months particularly,\u00a0 and that I\u2019ve shared with you about what is happening to the conservative movement and how conservatism\u2019s being defined, and who seeks to define it and what it means going forward.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s even a term used for the conservative Never Trumpers. He calls them “the Washington Generals.”\u00a0 I wonder where he got that?\u00a0 That happens to be my term for our side.\u00a0 Specifically, the Republicans in Congress.\u00a0 I think I named them the Washington Generals, happy to be on the field, happy to wear the uniform, but supposed to lose and happy to do so.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just a flavor.<\/p>\n

The piece is so good. It is just a home run, every paragraph.\u00a0 So I\u2019m gonna… Folks, this is on a par with Dr. Angelo Codevilla\u2019s ruling class versus country class piece<\/a> from the American Spectator a few years ago.\u00a0 The title of this piece, by the way, is “The Flight 93 Election.”<\/a> \u00a0What does that mean, “The Flight 93 Election”? Yeah.\u00a0 I\u2019ll explain that when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You remember Flight 93.\u00a0 That\u2019s the plane on 9\/11 that the passengers rushed the cockpit and captured the cockpit from the terrorists but the plane went down in a field in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It still was denied its target, however.\u00a0 And in one sense, it was considered a greatly heroic and successful action by the passengers, the civilians on that plane.\u00a0 Well, this piece — and, by the way, we\u2019ve linked to it at RushLimbaugh.com.\u00a0 I imagine you\u2019re gonna have trouble getting to it since I\u2019ve ballyhooed it here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, it is really good.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of these pieces that you\u2019ll read it and wish you had written it.\u00a0 In my case, I read it, and I was silently jumping for joy because it contains so much of what I said. But it\u2019s said so well here and so pointedly and the gloves off.\u00a0 As I say, it\u2019s a shaming of conservative intellectuals by an anonymous conservative intellectual.\u00a0 Now, I don\u2019t know why the writer chose the route of anonymity.\u00a0 Maybe to maintain the focus on the piece.<\/p>\n

The name is gonna leak; it always does.\u00a0 Remember Primary Colors, the book that came out about the Clinton campaign, and eventually people found out it was Joe Klein who wrote the book?\u00a0 So we\u2019ll find out who wrote this, the point is.\u00a0 “The Flight 93 Election — 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You — or the leader of your party — may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don\u2019t try, death is certain.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 “The Flight 93 Election — 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You — or the leader of your party — may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don\u2019t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto[matic]. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.” This is a shaming of conservative, Never Trump intellectuals is what this piece is, and it\u2019s powerful.<\/p>\n

“To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic,” to say, “a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto[matic]. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.” The “ordinary conservative” says, “The stakes can\u2019t be that high because they are never that high — except,” well, sometimes. “Conservative intellectuals will insist that there has been no ‘end of history\u2019 and that all human outcomes are still possible. …<\/p>\n

“But how great is the crisis? Can things really be so bad if eight years of Obama can be followed by eight more of Hillary, and yet Constitutionalist conservatives can still reasonably hope for a restoration of our cherished ideals? Cruz in 2024!” Yeah! He\u2019s mocking this whole idea that eight years of Hillary on top of eight years of Obama will leave us anything.\u00a0 “The truth is that Trump articulated, if incompletely and inconsistently, the right stances on the right issues — immigration, trade, and war — right from the beginning.<\/p>\n

“But let us back up. One of the paradoxes — there are so many — of conservative thought over the last decade at least is the unwillingness even to entertain the possibility that America and the West are on a trajectory toward something very bad.” Now, I\u2019m gonna take some time to translate what this means as I interpret it.\u00a0 As you know, there are people in the conservative movement who just can\u2019t bring themselves to support Trump, vote Trump, say anything good about Trump, and they\u2019ve made it known they\u2019ll vote for Hillary.<\/p>\n

At the same time, they indicate that they\u2019re trying to tell us that things are very bad. But if they\u2019re willing to vote for Hillary they must not think they\u2019re that bad, if voting for Hillary and what all that means for the next eight years leaves us anything after that.\u00a0 “On the one hand, conservatives routinely present a litany of ills plaguing the body politic. Illegitimacy. Crime. Massive, expensive, intrusive, out-of-control government. Politically correct McCarthyism.<\/p>\n

“Ever-higher taxes and ever-deteriorating services and infrastructure. Inability to win wars against tribal, sub-Third-World foes,” like ISIS. “A disastrously awful educational system that churns out kids who don\u2019t know anything and, at the primary and secondary levels, can\u2019t (or won\u2019t) discipline disruptive punks, and at the higher levels saddles students with six-figure debts for the privilege. And so on and drearily on.<\/p>\n

“Like that portion of the mass where the priest asks for your private intentions, fill in any dismal fact about American decline that you want and I\u2019ll stipulate it.” The point is, nobody on the conservative right disagrees:\u00a0 We\u2019re all in a downward spiral and these illustrations are what a lot of people on the conservative right agree with. Culturally and morally and politically we\u2019re in a swamp, we\u2019re in a sewer, and we\u2019re trending downward, and there\u2019s no end in sight.<\/p>\n

“Conservatives spend at least several hundred million dollars a year on think-tanks, magazines, conferences, fellowships, and such, complaining about this, that, the other, and everything. And yet, these same conservatives are, at root, keepers of the status quo. Oh, sure, they want some things to change. They want their pet ideas adopted — tax deductions for having more babies and the like. Many of them are even good ideas. But are any of them truly fundamental? Do they get to the heart of our problems?”<\/p>\n

In other words, we\u2019ve got a lot of conservative intellectuals at the tanks writing policy papers, position papers, as though everything\u2019s the same, as though everything\u2019s normal. “We\u2019re just through a normal election cycle. We win some; we lose some. We gotta keep plugging away. Eventually we\u2019re gonna win,” with no acknowledgment of the reality of what we face.\u00a0 They\u2019re in it for themselves.\u00a0 They want their pet ideas adopted. They want their paychecks.<\/p>\n

They want their paychecks to be cashed. They want to stay in the game. They want to be part of whatever the movement is in Washington, DC.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing: “If conservatives are right…” This is a key ‘graph here, folks. “If conservatives are right about the importance of virtue, morality, religious faith, stability, character and so on in the individual; if [conservatives] are right about sexual morality or what came to be termed ‘family values\u2019; if they are right about the importance of education to inculcate good character and to teach the fundamentals that have defined knowledge in the West for millennia; if they are right…”<\/p>\n

[I]f conservatives are right “about societal norms and public order; if they are right about the centrality of initiative, enterprise, industry, and thrift to a sound economy and a healthy society; if they are right about the soul-sapping effects of paternalistic Big Government and its cannibalization of civil society and religious institutions; if [conservatives] are right about the necessity of a strong defense and prudent statesmanship in the international sphere — if [conservatives] are right about the importance of all this to national health and even survival, then they must believe — mustn\u2019t they? — that we are headed off a cliff.<\/p>\n

“But it\u2019s quite obvious that [some conservative intellectuals] don\u2019t believe any such thing, that they feel no such sense of urgency, of an immediate necessity to change course and avoid the cliff. A recent article…” I hate naming names, but since this guy did it I\u2019ll mention who the names are. “A recent article by Matthew Continetti may be taken as representative — indeed, almost written for the purpose of illustrating the point. Continetti inquires into the ‘condition of America\u2019 and finds it wanting. What does [he] propose to do about it?<\/p>\n

“The usual litany of ‘conservative\u2019 ‘solutions,\u2019 with the obligatory references to decentralization, federalization, ‘civic renewal,\u2019 and — of course! — Burke. Which is to say, conservatism\u2019s typical combination of the useless and inapt with the utopian and unrealizable. Decentralization and federalism are all well and good, and as a conservative, I endorse them both without reservation. But how are they going to save, or even meaningfully improve, the America that Continetti describes?<\/p>\n

“What can they do against a tidal wave of dysfunction, immorality, and corruption? ‘Civic renewal\u2019 would do a lot of course, but that\u2019s like saying health will save a cancer patient. A step has been skipped in there somewhere. How are we going to achieve ‘civic renewal\u2019? Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy.” The point here is — and it rings true to me because we\u2019ve discussed I don\u2019t know how many times. My way of saying this is I turn on TV or I read various things and I look at all of these people on our side who properly detail all the things going wrong.<\/p>\n

“They get it all right: We\u2019re losing our culture, we\u2019re losing our morality, we\u2019re losing our politics, we\u2019re losing education. We\u2019re losing everything and they get that all right. But there\u2019s no sense of urgency to stop it or to fix it, and there\u2019s no willingness to join the battle!\u00a0 They just write what they write, say what they say, and then go back and do it again the next day, get the Fox News gig or the book deal and keep talking.\u00a0 But joining the fray…? And then when people who are joining the fray get hit and attacked, they\u2019re nowhere to be found defending anybody.\u00a0 In fact, many of them join the attack on whoever it is on the conservative side that\u2019s getting hit!<\/p>\n

And so this author is really calling them out, he\u2019s saying, “Look, you guys are just as good as anybody at identifying the problems.\u00a0 The idea that you can have eight more years of Hillary Clinton and still employ these traditional conservative solutions to a population changing before our eyes that doesn\u2019t have the slightest idea what you\u2019re talking about is insane.”<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m still only on page two.\u00a0 Let me skip a couple of paragraphs here.\u00a0 “Yet we may also reasonably ask: What explains the Pollyanna-ish declinism of so many others? That is, the stance that Things-Are-Really-Bad — But-Not-So-Bad-that-We-Have-to-Consider-Anything-Really-Different! The obvious answer is that they don\u2019t really believe the first half of that formulation,” that things are really bad.<\/p>\n

“If so, like Chicken Little, they should stick a sock in it. Pecuniary reasons also suggest themselves, but let us foreswear recourse to this explanation until we have disproved all the others. Whatever the reason for the contradiction –” the contradiction is identifying the problems head on, getting them exactly right, and then doing precisely nothing about it.\u00a0 “– there can be no doubt that there is a contradiction. To simultaneously hold conservative cultural, economic, and political beliefs — to insist that our liberal-left present reality and future direction is incompatible with human nature and must undermine society –”<\/p>\n

In other words, we\u2019re being torn apart in front of our eyes, and to hold that conservative, cultural, economic, political beliefs are incompatible with the transformation going on at the moment, “– and yet also believe that things can go on more or less the way they are going, ideally but not necessarily with some conservative tinkering here and there, is logically impossible.<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s be very blunt here: if you genuinely think things can go on with no fundamental change needed, then you have implicitly admitted that conservatism is wrong. Wrong philosophically, wrong on human nature, wrong on the nature of politics, and wrong in its policy prescriptions. Because, first, few of those prescriptions are in force today. Second, of the ones that are, the left is busy undoing them, often with conservative assistance. And, third, the whole trend of the West is ever-leftward, ever further away from what we all understand as conservatism.”<\/p>\n

Now, let me give another hint where this is headed.\u00a0 What this column is really about is a shaming of Never Trumpers who proudly and loudly proclaim — conservative intellectuals — it\u2019s a infinite audience that\u2019s being targeted here.\u00a0 It\u2019s not you, folks.\u00a0 It\u2019s conservative intellectuals, the think tankers, the people that rely on fundraising and donations and the magazine types.\u00a0 I\u2019m not naming any names and he doesn\u2019t do so, either, but he\u2019s written for that audience, and he\u2019s basically calling them out for their holier-than-thou attitude about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Because the whole point of this is this guy\u2019s opinion. He is every bit the intellectual conservative of those he\u2019s criticizing.\u00a0 The point of this whole piece is that Donald Trump\u2019s the only hope, that conservatism no longer applies.\u00a0 We\u2019re way past that.\u00a0 Conservatism, as has been applied the last ten years, what do we have to show for it?\u00a0 We have a bunch of midterm election victories, but nothing done with them.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re really serious about how bad things are but you can\u2019t find yourself to oppose Hillary Clinton, then you\u2019re worthless.\u00a0 That\u2019s what this is essentially saying, but in 10 pages.\u00a0 It\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a few more excerpts here from the column The Flight 93 Election from Claremont.com.\u00a0 Folks, I want to tell you, if I chose to I could spend probably two hours on this today.\u00a0 It is that deep.\u00a0 I should say in depth.\u00a0 It\u2019s not deep in the sense it\u2019s hard to understand.\u00a0 Quite the contrary.\u00a0 But in a nutshell the message and theme — and there are a couple of them here, but if I had to whittle it down, conservatism can\u2019t just be an academic exercise when the country is hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n

And the focus within the conservative movement on who is and who isn\u2019t a genuine conservative misses the entire point and is a waste of time when the country is hanging in the balance.\u00a0 There\u2019s only one possible way to stop the downward trend we\u2019re on, and that\u2019s to beat Hillary Clinton, and the only way to do that is to vote for Donald Trump.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a plea to intellectual conservatives who refuse to do so.<\/p>\n

Can you separate your vote from support?\u00a0 If you can\u2019t bring yourself to support Trump, can you at least vote for him to stop the downward trend that you all acknowledge is occurring?\u00a0 This is one of the big themes of the piece:\u00a0 How can you sit there and agree how rotten things are, how we\u2019re in a downward spiral, how everything we believe in is being transformed and torn apart and not react as though we\u2019re in a big crisis, as though we can just continue to do what we\u2019re doing, writing our same old policy papers, enunciating our same old principles to an audience that is further and further removed by virtue of immigration and other tricks the Democrats are using to totally change the face of the electorate in this country.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another excerpt.\u00a0 “More to the point, what has conservatism achieved lately? In the last 20 years?” Take over the House is about it, when you get right down to it, 1994.\u00a0 That\u2019s my interpretation.\u00a0 The writer here says that, well, practically nothing has been achieved in the last 20 years.\u00a0 But then if you go tell conservatives that, they\u2019ll say, “Well, our ideas haven\u2019t even been tried.”<\/p>\n

“Except that the same conservatives who generate those ideas are in charge of selling them to the broader public. If their ideas ‘haven\u2019t been tried,\u2019 who is ultimately at fault?” This gets to the point.\u00a0 You can sit there and you can enunciate conservatism all day, you can write conservatism all day, but you can\u2019t sit there and say, “Our ideas haven\u2019t had a chance,” because if you\u2019re not trying to get them implemented, if you\u2019re not actually trying to persuade people, if you\u2019re not out there fighting for hearts and minds, if you\u2019re just pontificating, then you can\u2019t sit back and say, “Our ideas haven\u2019t been tried.”<\/p>\n

“The whole enterprise of Conservatism, Inc., reeks of failure. Its sole recent and ongoing success is its own self-preservation. Conservative intellectuals never tire of praising ‘entrepreneurs\u2019 and ‘creative destruction.\u2019 Dare to fail! they exhort businessmen. Let the market decide! Except, um, not with respect to us. Or is their true market not the political arena, but the fundraising circuit?”<\/p>\n

Now, if you are a conservative intellectual and you\u2019re reading this, that is a deep cut.\u00a0 That is a deep wound.\u00a0 That is an allegation that you\u2019re only in it for the money and that you don\u2019t want to upset anything that might interrupt your fundraising.<\/p>\n

So whereas you might really acknowledge that we\u2019re in dire straits and you might, in your heart, think the only thing we can do is vote Trump, you won\u2019t dare say so because it might upset your strident conservative donors who might freeze you out.\u00a0 That\u2019s who he\u2019s calling out in this paragraph.\u00a0 Anyway, really, I can\u2019t go through the whole thing, folks, it would take too much time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotta take a break now.\u00a0 But you really should read it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Look, I have more from this piece, “The Flight 93 Election,” and, as I say, I could probably spend the whole program on this, because it is all about who we are and where we are as a country and as conservatives and the conservative movement, which are three different things.\u00a0 Movement conservatives are different than just people living their lives as conservatives.\u00a0 There are people in the conservative movement who derive their standard of living from it, who earn their living as accredited members of it.<\/p>\n

But most people are not that.\u00a0 Most conservatives are not that.\u00a0 They\u2019re just average, ordinary American citizens, and they don\u2019t work in think tanks and they don\u2019t work at conservative magazines or Fox News or even have talk radio programs.\u00a0 They\u2019re just out there — you and so forth.\u00a0 And there is a divide, there is a discord that\u2019s happened, and part of it is… Well, it\u2019s hard to say that one thing has launched the discord.\u00a0 It\u2019s a culmination of many things that have taken years and years and years to implement and to unfold.<\/p>\n

So I think rather than just head right back into this, you know, I\u2019ll do an excerpt here or there for the remainder of the program. Because, as I say, it prints out to 10 pages, and I really do want you to read it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve linked to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s from the Claremont site.\u00a0 We\u2019ve linked to it at RushLimbaugh.com.\u00a0 I think we shut down their website for the first half hour if you were trying to get it.\u00a0 But patience and perseverance will triumph and you will eventually be able to get to that link.<\/p>\n

Again, just go to RushLimbaugh.com and you\u2019ll find it.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t have any trouble finding it at the top.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t been to our page yet to look exactly where it is, but it will be at the top, nearby.\u00a0 But let me give you just one more paragraph or two excerpt of this — and again, to summarize what this is: It is a conservative intellectual writing anonymously calling out other conservative intellectuals over their refusal to support Trump. While acknowledging how bad things are, refusing to support Trump is an admission that things really aren\u2019t that bad.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t think they\u2019re that bad, expect \u2019em to get that bad, and we\u2019re not in a crisis, and, therefore, there\u2019s not really a whole lot called for outside the status quo.\u00a0 And really when you get right down to it, folks, have you not found that to be the case?\u00a0 You run into people who say, “Yeah, the country…” They don\u2019t think it\u2019s a crisis.\u00a0 One of the biggest problems I have had over the course of the last eight years with Obama is running into people who acknowledge that Obama\u2019s not great.<\/p>\n

Things are not good, bad things are happening, but the admission that we\u2019re in a crisis… Particularly the Republican Party; forget conservatism. The Republican Party has not wanted to even get anywhere near admitting that we\u2019re in a crisis; because when you do that, when you take that step? Well, it\u2019s a call to arms.\u00a0 And this writer is essentially calling out other conservative intellectuals and basically asking, “Are you guys even working in the political arena, or you just in the fundraising arena?”<\/p>\n

And, believe me, when the people he\u2019s aiming this piece at read that, they\u2019re gonna get ticked.\u00a0 I mean, they\u2019re gonna get ticked at a lot of this, but that cuts right to the motivations, right to the reasons that they do what they do.\u00a0 Are they really out trying to change hearts and minds?\u00a0 Are they really, really in the political arena or are they on a distant stage in Washington or New York writing and speaking but no more than that?\u00a0 We\u2019ll see where it goes.<\/p>\n

This is gonna rankle a lot of feathers, and I don\u2019t know how many people would have come across it on their own, which is why I\u2019m highlighting it today.\u00a0 But here\u2019s a paragraph where the writer — again, remember the audience: Conservative intellectuals.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know what I mean by that, “conservative intellectual” for this purpose is a writer, somebody working at a think tank, somebody working in policy, somebody blogging.<\/p>\n

You know, just sharing with you their smarts and their brainpower and illustrating their beliefs and understanding of conservative principle but not doing anything to implement it anywhere.\u00a0 “How have the last two decades worked out for you, personally? If you\u2019re a member or fellow-traveler of the Davos class…” Now, Davos is the World Economic Forum, and that\u2019s where all of the elite — wealthiest of the wealthy — leftists go every February, Davos, Switzerland, to have an economic conference where they basically sit around and have a party.<\/p>\n

And they ski, and they contemplate how they can entrench themselves and the establishment even deeper and protect themselves even more from any outside influences.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very exclusionary existence.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very small group, meaning there not too many people qualified to be in it, and they don\u2019t want anybody new in it, and they exist to keep people out and to rig as much of the world\u2019s affairs for their own benefit.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the Davos class.<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019re a member or fellow-traveler of the Davos class, chances are” that the last twenty years have been pretty good for you. “If you\u2019re among the subspecies conservative intellectual or politician, you\u2019ve accepted — perhaps not consciously, but unmistakably — your status on the roster of the Washington Generals of American politics.” I particularly love that because I invented that. To my knowledge I did.\u00a0 Who were the Washington Generals?<\/p>\n

Well, for you young conservatives and young people in general, the Washington Generals were the foil team for the Harlem Globetrotters led by Meadowlark Lemon.\u00a0 They lost every game, by design.\u00a0 They were there as clown prince idiots.\u00a0 They were on the field in uniform opposition only.\u00a0 Their purpose was to allow the Globetrotters to strut their stuff and to demonstrate how great they were.\u00a0 They were basically a bunch of fools.<\/p>\n

But they got paid, and they got to wear the uniform, and they got to travel around with the Generals, and they felt pretty good about themselves.\u00a0 That\u2019s the analogy.\u00a0 “If you\u2019re a member or fellow-traveler of the Davos class, chances are” that the last twenty years have hunky-dory! “If you\u2019re among the subspecies conservative intellectual or politician, you\u2019ve accepted … your status on the roster of the Washington Generals of American politics.” Your job is to show up and lose, but you are a necessary part of the show and you do get paid.<\/p>\n

“To the extent that you are ever on the winning side of anything, it\u2019s as sophists who help the Davo [crowd] oligarchy rationalize open borders, lower wages, outsourcing, de-industrialization, trade giveaways, and endless, pointless, winless war.” (chuckling) Each of these paragraphs is a pack of dynamite (chuckling), and this paragraph basically is attacking Republicans and conservative intellectuals who are happy to lose.<\/p>\n

Happy to be in the establishment. Happy to be on the field with the winners. Happy to be called by name by the winners, happy to be seen on the team as the winners. And if you ever do win anything, it\u2019s when you join the bad guys, as useless idiots to help them with amnesty, to help them with lower wages for the American people, to help them by saddling college graduates with insurmountable debt, to help the establishment outsource American jobs. By helping the establishment deindustrialize the country, by helping the establishment negotiate trade deals — and war after war after war.<\/p>\n

“All of Trump\u2019s 16 Republican competitors would have ensured more of the same…” Now, this is a major indictment, because you know there are a lot of people running around wringing their hands. “Oh, my God, we have the best field of Republican candidates in 20 years!” How many people remember that?\u00a0 I remember in August and September when Trump was just commandeering everything, and you could turn on TV, you could read columns, and you could read people lamenting, “My God, this is the best field of Republican candidates we have had in I don\u2019t know how long!”<\/p>\n

This writer is saying that all 16 of Trump\u2019s competitors would have done nothing to change anything that is happening.\u00a0 They were the Washington Generals.\u00a0 “They would have ensured more of the same — as will the election of Hillary Clinton. That would be bad enough. But at least Republicans are merely reactive when it comes to wholesale cultural and political change.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another stick of dynamite.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a point close to my heart.\u00a0 How many times have I said we get up every day, we try to go about our life, and then we find out we gotta defend something. Something\u2019s under attack. We don\u2019t have time to advance the ball. We\u2019re too busy trying to stop the advance of the left. We\u2019re reacting to everything, and whatever they propose, we come up with an alternative.\u00a0 They propose Obamacare, we propose health care but our way, done smarter.<\/p>\n

We never oppose them. We never say “no.” We never say “stop.”\u00a0 At least, the establishment Republicans, the conservative elites that this guy is writing to.\u00a0 “Republicans are merely reactive when it comes to wholesale cultural and political change. Their ‘opposition\u2019 may be in all cases ineffectual and often indistinguishable from support.”<\/p>\n

So you have Republicans joining the Democrats on amnesty, claiming we have to do it for whatever reason, you can\u2019t tell the difference in the two, right?\u00a0 But at least the Republicans are not dreaming up this insanity.\u00a0 They\u2019re not dreaming up “elective bathrooms, single-payer, Iran sycophancy, ‘Islamophobia,\u2019 and Black Lives Matter.” The Republicans aren\u2019t dreaming up any of that.\u00a0 The Republicans are not creating that stuff.\u00a0 All they\u2019re doing is to help ratify it, which is an indictment itself.<\/p>\n

So that paragraph, too, another stick of dynamite.\u00a0 This guy is accusing conservative intellectuals who think they\u2019re mouthing and writing powerful opposition to Obama, he\u2019s accusing them of helping.\u00a0 ‘Cause they don\u2019t really stop anything.\u00a0 They don\u2019t really try.\u00a0 They just write as though here\u2019s the latest news of the day, and it\u2019s not conservative, it\u2019s liberal or whatever it is. But there isn\u2019t any outrage.\u00a0 There\u2019s no sense of crisis attached to it.<\/p>\n

“A Hillary presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on the entire Progressive-left agenda, plus items few of us have yet imagined in our darkest moments. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a level of vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto seen in the supposedly liberal West.”<\/p>\n

What he\u2019s saying is, with this, is that, look, it\u2019s not bad enough that they\u2019re advancing their leftist progressive agenda unstoppably.\u00a0 What they\u2019re gonna do if she wins, they\u2019re gonna get into vindictive persecution, and they\u2019re gonna take out, they\u2019re gonna do everything they can to destroy any and all opposition.\u00a0 And he cites evidence like Obama and the IRS and a couple of other examples.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s basically saying, you think that you\u2019re gonna continue to have your platform if Hillary Clinton gets elected, you think you\u2019re gonna continue to have your platform to continue to criticize Hillary, don\u2019t count on it.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna come for you.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna come for all of us.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want any opposition.\u00a0 They\u2019re tired of playing the game that they have a legitimate opponent.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think they do, the left, this guy\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n

They think they\u2019re on the cusp of getting rid of all opposition and the election of Hillary Clinton will tell them that they have gotten rid of all opposition, and they\u2019re gonna make it official by getting rid of any dissent.\u00a0 That\u2019s what this guy\u2019s theory is.\u00a0 And it\u2019s time people woke up and realized what\u2019s at stake, is what he\u2019s trying to do with — my interpretation, but I think I\u2019m fairly close.<\/p>\n

“We see this already in the censorship practiced by the Davoisie\u2019s social media enablers.” \u00a0We see it the way Google manipulates searches.\u00a0 We see it the way Facebook manipulates their trending news items.\u00a0 “We see it in the shameless propaganda tidal wave of the mainstream media; and in the personal destruction campaigns — operated through the former and aided by the latter — of the Social Justice Warriors. We see it in Obama\u2019s flagrant use of the IRS to torment political opponents, the gaslighting denial by the media, and the collective shrug by everyone else.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, back to another excerpt here from “The Flight 93 Election,” Claremont.com — and again if you\u2019re having trouble finding it, there\u2019s a link to it at the top of our page at RushLimbaugh.com.\u00a0 What do we have to lose by fighting back?\u00a0 Again, keep in mind… I realize some people just tuning in at every break, so let me again remind you what this piece is.\u00a0 It\u2019s an anonymous column written to conservative intellectuals who make up the Never Trump movement.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s targeted to conservative intellectuals because this guy is one. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, he didn\u2019t name names so I\u2019m not gonna suppose.\u00a0 I mean, you could fill in your blanks here, I guess.\u00a0 I assume he means to include elected Republicans in this as well, anybody who\u2019s a Never Trumper.\u00a0 And there\u2019s some of the Never Trump crowd, folks — believe it — who really want Trump to lose so that they can be validity in what they said when they called him such a reprobate.\u00a0 And this man\u2019s point is: How can you be a conservative and want him to lose?\u00a0 How can you be a conservative and want Hillary Clinton to win?<\/p>\n

How can you be a conservative and want another eight years just like the previous eight?\u00a0 How in the world can you want that?\u00a0 And he concludes that if your paycheck derives from being part of an opposition and your paycheck derives from donors and fundraisers, then fine and dandy. But you\u2019re not really doing anything for anybody.\u00a0 And he\u2019s frustrated that there are so many Never Trumper who are trying to act like they are high and mighty on principle here as though the preservation of conservatism is paramount.<\/p>\n

And his point is, conservatism\u2019s about to be erased. Opposition to the Democrats and to Hillary and Obama\u2019s about to be erased if they keep winning.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t gonna be any opposition, principled or otherwise!\u00a0 That\u2019s his belief.\u00a0 Ten pages of it.\u00a0 “So what do we have to lose by fighting back? Only our Washington Generals jerseys — and paychecks.” That\u2019s a dynamite sentence.\u00a0 He\u2019s basically calling these people out: What do you have to lose by fighting back?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s chastising people who are afraid to oppose Hillary or Obama or the Democrats for fear they\u2019re gonna do kicked out of the establishment, for fear they\u2019re not gonna get their paychecks, for fear they\u2019re not gonna be able to maintain their donations and their fundraising.\u00a0 But then he says. “But those are going away anyway.” Don\u2019t you understand? All of that\u2019s going away anyway! There isn\u2019t gonna be a Washington Generals; there isn\u2019t gonna need to be a Washington Generals. There isn\u2019t gonna need to be a foil anymore, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t gonna be any serious opposition to worry about.<\/p>\n

“Among the many things the ‘Right\u2019 still doesn\u2019t understand is that the Left [the Democrats] has concluded that this particular show need no longer go on.” His point here is that the Democrats and the media and so forth, they\u2019re just going through the motions of acting like there\u2019s a serious opposition and they\u2019re tolerating it for the sake of how it looks. But they have concluded that it doesn\u2019t need to go on like this anymore, that we really don\u2019t need to legitimize the Republican Party as an opposition. We don\u2019t need to legitimize conservatism, anymore. So we can just erase \u2019em.<\/p>\n

The left “don\u2019t think they need a foil anymore,” they don\u2019t think they need the Washington Generals on the court every day, “and would rather dispense with the whole bother of staging these phony contests in which each side ostensibly has a shot,” and then the killer paragraph: “If you haven\u2019t noticed, our side has been losing consistently since 1988. We can win midterms,” we won the House in 1994, “but we do nothing with them.” Well, we did.\u00a0 You know, that\u2019s not true.\u00a0 In 1994, we did a lot with the House.<\/p>\n

The conservative agenda, the Contract with America, welfare reform. There was a lot done, and that\u2019s frustrating, \u2019cause nothing was done beyond it.\u00a0 In fact, efforts were made in the Republican Party to erase it.\u00a0 “After the Carthaginian\u2019s famous slaughter of a Roman army at Cannae, he failed to march on an undefended Rome, prompting his cavalry commander to complain: ‘you know how to win a victory, but not how to use one.'” Well, we don\u2019t either. “Because the deck is stacked overwhelmingly against us.”<\/p>\n

He writes, “I will mention but three ways. First, the opinion-making elements — the universities and the media above all — are wholly corrupt and wholly opposed to everything we want, and increasingly even to our existence. … If it hadn\u2019t been abundantly clear for the last 50 years, the campaign of 2015-2016 must surely have made it evident to even the meanest capacities that the intelligentsia … is overwhelmingly partisan and biased. Against this onslaught, ‘conservative\u2019 media is a nullity, barely a whisper.<\/p>\n

“It cannot be heard above the blaring of what has been aptly called ‘The Megaphone.\u2019 Second, our Washington Generals…” Let me give you an illustration of that.\u00a0 Fox News.\u00a0 Nothing against Fox News, but what do you think their highest rated program generates in terms of audience every day?\u00a0 Three million.\u00a0 The highest rated program generates three million viewers a night.\u00a0 Now, I don\u2019t know how many viewers a week that adds up to.\u00a0 In radio… We do radio ratings differently than TV and we end up tabulating by the day, by the quarter hour, and by the week.<\/p>\n

TV, I think, does the same, demographics and so forth. But still, three million people.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot, and they\u2019re good, and they\u2019re effective but it doesn\u2019t come close \u2019til you add up ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. Throw them in there.\u00a0 Their audiences are even smaller than Fox but they are part of “The Megaphone.”\u00a0 This is just to illustrate.\u00a0 “Second, our Washington Generals self-handicap and self-censor to an absurd degree. Lenin is supposed to have said that ‘the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.\u2019 But with an opposition like ours, why bother?<\/p>\n

“Our ‘leaders\u2019 and ‘dissenters\u2019 bend over backward to play by the self-sabotaging rules the Left sets for them. Fearful, beaten dogs…” Now, I don\u2019t need to explain that to you.\u00a0 That\u2019s (stammering fearfully), “Don\u2019t call me a racist! Don\u2019t call me a racist! I\u2019m for amnesty! I join you on amnesty! Don\u2019t — don\u2019t — don\u2019t call me a racist! Don\u2019t call me a Nazi! Please don\u2019t call me names! I — I — I — I — I agree with you on amnesty,” and so forth.\u00a0 “Third and most importantly,” and this is it, “the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.<\/p>\n

“As does, of course, the U.S. population, which only serves to reinforce the two other causes outlined above. This is the core reason why the Left, the Democrats, and the bipartisan junta … think they are on the cusp of a permanent victory that will forever obviate the need to pretend to respect democratic and constitutional niceties. Because they are. … Do they honestly believe that the right enterprise zone or charter school policy will arouse 50.01% of our newer voters to finally reveal their ‘natural conservatism\u2019 …?” Oh, can I share with you say story about that?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t… Folks, from the first moment people started trying to sell me on agreeing with amnesty, you know what I heard (and I heard it from the very people this guy\u2019s talking about)?\u00a0 “Rush, you have got to support it.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to support amnesty!\u00a0 Let me tell you, Rush, these…”What were they called? “Hispanics, Latinos, they\u2019re all natural conservatives, Rush! They\u2019re Catholic, most of them are. They\u2019re traditional family values! They\u2019re all conservative. They believe in hard work” and so forth.<\/p>\n

That was the sales pitch, that they are conservatives-in-waiting.\u00a0 Well, we find out they\u2019re not.\u00a0 They never have been.\u00a0 There is no such thing as a conservative-in-waiting.\u00a0 A conservative has to be weaned off of liberalism. Something that is not conservative in and of itself will become liberal.\u00a0 Conservatism is an actual intellectual application.\u00a0 Liberalism is just the easiest choice anybody can make.\u00a0 All you have to do is pretend to care about things and say so.\u00a0 Conservatism, all of these values and principles of conservatism require action to implement, not just thought.<\/p>\n

But liberalism, all you have to do is say and whine, moan, complain, pretend to be victims, feel sorry for victims and so forth, and you\u2019re automatically a good person.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never forget, the earliest days of the sales pitch to join this amnesty movement, “Rush, they\u2019re natural conservatives, God-fearing, hardworking, self-reliant, rugged individuals.\u00a0 You gotta support, let them in the country.\u00a0 That\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna get rid of the Democrat Party.”\u00a0 Except it didn\u2019t happen, because the borders have been open for all of these years.<\/p>\n

“It hasn\u2019t happened anywhere yet and shows no signs that it ever will. But that doesn\u2019t stop the Republican refrain: more, more, more! No matter how many elections they lose, how many districts tip forever blue, how rarely (if ever) their immigrant vote cracks 40%, the answer is always the same. Just like Angela Merkel after yet another rape, shooting, bombing, or machete attack. More, more, more!<\/p>\n

“This is insane. This is the mark of a party, a society, a country, a people, a civilization that wants to die. Trump, alone among candidates for high office in this or in the last seven (at least) cycles, has stood up to say: I want to live. I want my party to live. I want my country to live. I want my people to live. I want to end the insanity.”<\/p>\n

A conservative intellectual at Claremont saying Trump, in the last seven election cycles, is the only candidate ever to stand up to oppose what is bringing about the dissolution and destruction — this is not a stick of dynamite.\u00a0 This is 10 or 12 sticks of dynamite.\u00a0 We\u2019re getting close to nuclear explosions here, when this piece is read by the people he\u2019s aiming it at.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You know, I knew this was gonna happen.\u00a0 Every time I try to put this down and move on I look at the next paragraph and say, “I gotta read that, too.”\u00a0 So here\u2019s one more, folks, and then we\u2019re gonna get back to the phones.\u00a0 I have audio sound bites of Trump coming up, the sound bites that occurred before we joined his speech today in progress and his big finish which occurred during one of our commercial breaks.<\/p>\n

Now, this writer again at Claremont, anonymous.\u00a0 “Yes, Trump is worse than imperfect. So what? We can lament until we choke the lack of a great statesman to address the fundamental issues of our time — or, more importantly, to connect them. Since Pat Buchanan\u2019s three failures, occasionally a candidate arose who saw one piece: Dick Gephardt on trade, Ron Paul on war, Tom Tancredo on immigration.”\u00a0 But neither were right on all three.<\/p>\n

“Yet, among recent political figures — great statesmen, dangerous demagogues, and mewling gnats alike — only Trump-the-alleged-buffoon not merely saw all three and their essential connectivity, but was able to win on them. The alleged buffoon is thus more prudent — more practically wise — than all of our wise-and-good who so bitterly oppose him. This should embarrass them. That their failures instead embolden them is only further proof of their foolishness and hubris.”<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the nuclear bomb that\u2019s been tossed into the clubhouse of conservative intellectualism.\u00a0 The alleged buffoon, Donald Trump, is more prudent, more practically wise, than all of our wise and good intellectuals who so bitterly oppose him.\u00a0 And that should embarrass them.\u00a0 That their failures instead make them feel even more smug and arrogant is only further proof of their foolishness and hubris.<\/p>\n

In fact, “Trump\u2019s vulgarity is in fact a godsend to the conservatives. It allows them to hang their public opposition on his obvious shortcomings and to ignore or downplay his far greater strengths, which should be even more obvious but in corrupt times can be deliberately obscured by constant references to his faults.”<\/p>\n

So Trump\u2019s bombast gives the opponents, “See, we can\u2019t trust him. See, he\u2019s a loose cannon. See, he\u2019s too barbaric. See, he\u2019s too unsophisticated, see?”\u00a0 Well, Trump is working on that, by the way, as you heard earlier in the speech.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So I checked the email, and I\u2019ve got an incredible number of people saying, “Rush, you need to start naming names! You can\u2019t just do things like you\u2019re doing today and leave it up for people to figure who you\u2019re talking about.\u00a0 It\u2019s too important.\u00a0 You gotta name the names.”\u00a0 The writer did not name the names.\u00a0 Look, folks, this is not difficult.\u00a0 The clues are throughout this: Think tankers, fundraising, donations, Never Trumpers.\u00a0 I mean, if you can\u2019t spot a Never Trumper who is also a conservative, then God help us.<\/p>\n

I mean, the Never Trumpers are pretty public about being Never Trump, aren\u2019t they?\u00a0 Never Trump conservatives are pretty late proud people. (interruption) Now Snerdley is saying… (interruption)\u00a0 You\u2019re saying some hide their Never Trumpism? (interruption) Okay.\u00a0 Some of them…? (interruption)\u00a0 Some of them do? (interruption) All right.\u00a0 (interruption) Well, okay.\u00a0 But, look… (interruption)\u00a0 Well, I do know who all of them are. That\u2019s… (interruption) Well, I probably don\u2019t know who all of them are.<\/p>\n

I probably know who a good number of them are, but what gets me is all these emails from people who think you\u2019re not gonna be able to do that.\u00a0 Honest to God, I\u2019m getting emails from people who think you are going to continue to be fooled by watching, reading, and listening to people who are Never Trumpers but you think they\u2019re conservatives and you\u2019re not gonna understand. I have more faith in you than that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you all are a bunch of horses that need to be led to the water. (interruption)<\/p>\n

What are you frowning at me for, Mr. Snerdley?\u00a0 You\u2019re one of these, too? You actually think that some of these Never Trumpers are well hidden and…? (interruption) I don\u2019t know how hard it is to spot somebody who\u2019s against Trump.\u00a0 I mean, they don\u2019t hide that.\u00a0 I mean, you can find them. They\u2019re comprised of many people who think anybody voting for Trump is selling out the conservative movement.\u00a0 Do you think that? Do you think a Trump supporter or conservative supporting Trump is selling out the conservative movement?\u00a0 Do you think that?\u00a0 (interruption)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my point: Who does?\u00a0 But they do.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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