{"id":215080,"date":"2016-12-02T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/02\/america_is_trump_s_unifying_message\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:38:32","slug":"america_is_trump_s_unifying_message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/02\/america_is_trump_s_unifying_message\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Trump\u2019s Unifying Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:  Justin was talking about various things he heard Trump say,<\/a> and he focused on Trump talking about the greatness of America and no longer the fact that globalism was the big thing for the United States.  I wanted… We have the sound bites from Trump\u2019s speech last night, and I just wanted to grab that one and play it for you since Justin pretty aptly described it.  <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how Trump described that… <\/p>\n

TRUMP:  For too long Washington has tried to put us in boxes.  They separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, by place of birth.  We spend too much time focusing on what divides us.  Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us.  You know what that is?  America!  <\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers) <\/p>\n

TRUMP: America.  It\u2019s America.  <\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers)<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Because when America is unified, nothing is beyond our reach.  There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship.  We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.<\/p>\n

CROWD (cheering) USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!<\/p>\n

TRUMP: From now on, it\u2019s going to be America first, okay?  America first.  <\/p>\n

CROWD (cheering) <\/p>\n

TRUMP: We\u2019re gonna put ourselves first. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  And that\u2019s why, one of the many reasons the left is wetting the bed today, and one of the many reasons they were wetting the bed last night.  That bite pretty much encompasses the rally last night, the thank-you tour.  We\u2019ve got sound bites, highlights-of-many of the things Trump said. But that\u2019s pretty much it.  Now, this is a great opportunity for me to say something that I have long said about Trump and that is that he\u2019s not ideological.  <\/p>\n

Conservatism, liberalism, those are not things that help Trump sift through people and information.  He\u2019s just not. I am. I am totally ideological.  I spot liberalism, and when I do, I automatically disagree with it.  Experience guided by intelligence.  He\u2019s not.  But he often comes to the same conclusions I do about things, even though he doesn\u2019t get there the same way, and this bite offers a great example and illustration of how.  “For too long Washington has tried to put us in boxes,” okay? <\/p>\n

Trump sees, yeah, “Washington is trying to…” Well, who\u2019s actually been doing it?  In my view, that\u2019s what liberalism does.  Liberalism divides and puts people into groups and makes victims out of as many people as it can.  African-Americans Hispanics, gays, lesbians, transgenders. You name it, there\u2019s a group.  Liberalism does not see us as one people.  They see us as a collection of aggrieved minority groups.  The only group that they see that is considered a majority is white Christians, and they do not like them. <\/line><\/p>\n

So all of these other groups get added together to try to outnumber white Christians or white males or what have you. But the real objective of this is to make victims out of all these other people.  When you make victims out of them, you immediately turn them to dependency.  When you begin to become their champion in overcoming whatever it is that\u2019s against them — and, by the way, what\u2019s against them is America! In the land of the left America is the biggest obstacle, and they make victims — the left does, the Democrat Party makes victims — out of all these people.  <\/p>\n

They immediately, therefore, turn them into dependent people dependent on the Democrats, dependent on government, and they also destroy, in my mind, an element of their humanity, because they tell \u2019em, “There\u2019s so many obstacles in your way, you can\u2019t possibly overcome them.  You can\u2019t become great.  It\u2019s not possible because of the bigoted and prejudiced way this country is structured.”  They tell people this, and people believe it.  People believe they have no hope, they have no chance unless government or the Democrats are out there punishing this phantom enemy. <\/p>\n

Well, Trump doesn\u2019t see it that way.  I mean, the elements. He sees it exactly that way, but he doesn\u2019t associate liberalism with it.  It\u2019s just a bunch of people that are wrong, in his mind.  Then he says, “They separate us by race.” Washington is “they.” “They separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, place of birth.”  The liberals do that.  Democrats do that.  Conservatives do not do that.  I am a conservative.  We don\u2019t do that.  We see everybody as American, we see everybody as human, and we see everybody with potential and desire.<\/p>\n

There are different degrees of both, but we see people yearning to be free.  We want as much freedom and liberty for people as possible.  Trump sees that, but he doesn\u2019t associate liberalism or conservatism with this.  He\u2019s simply look at the state of the country today, and he\u2019s seeing all of these divisions. And he listens to TV, watches TV, and he\u2019s made the proper conclusion. He\u2019s listened to people separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, place of birth, and he knows it firsthand now because of having run a campaign.  <\/p>\n

He\u2019s right about every bit of it, but he doesn\u2019t get there by knowing what liberalism is.  The fact that there are liberals and who they are does not assist Trump in his observation or conclusion.  He gets it but a totally different way.  And then he says, “We spend too much time focusing on what divides us.  Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us.”  The left in this country is not interested in unity.  They profit from the division.  They profit, politically, by being elected.  They profit from victimization of people.  <\/line><\/p>\n

The left cannot, in its heart, desire unity.  Unity would kill them off.  Unity would end the need for liberalism.  Trump comes along, and what\u2019s the one thing we all have in common? America.  We\u2019re all Americans.  In his world that\u2019s always been the case.  World War II, Vietnam War. We\u2019re all Americans.  His instincts are right on the money, “and when America\u2019s unified, nothing\u2019s beyond our reach.”  That\u2019s history.  That\u2019s historically true. <\/p>\n

When we are unified, there\u2019s no stopping us.  Every time we\u2019ve unified and come together on whatever the objective is, we triumph.  History is replete with examples, and he knows it.  He\u2019s also very correct, and this is… I\u2019m gonna attach originality and uniqueness to Trump here, because I\u2019ve not heard anybody else say this, not the way he did it in the context.  I\u2019ve heard people make these independent observations, but not as a premised point.  “There is no global anthem. There is no global currency.  There is no certificate of global citizenship.”    <\/p>\n

He\u2019s exactly right.  There isn\u2019t.  But there are people who want all three of those.  They want a global anthem; they want a global currency; and they want global citizenship.  And to accomplish all of that, they have to eliminate nation states, and they have to eliminate the power and the defining characteristics of that power, the United States.  And Trump understands full well what\u2019s going on, identifies that just flawlessly.  There isn\u2019t a reasonable person in America who would not be inspired by that.  “Are you saying people that disagree with Trump are unreasonable?”  Damn right I am.  There\u2019s nothing unreasonable about this.  <\/p>\n