{"id":220658,"date":"2017-02-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=220658"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T21:47:43","slug":"the-establishment-still-doesnt-get-trump-or-his-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/08\/the-establishment-still-doesnt-get-trump-or-his-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Establishment Still Doesn\u2019t Get Trump or His Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s a great column in the Washington Post today by Julian Zelizer<\/a>. He\u2019s a political historian at Princeton. He\u2019s a fellow at the New America Foundation, and he\u2019s the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. But he\u2019s a fellow somewhere. You know when you\u2019re a fellow somewhere, that\u2019s big. When you\u2019re a fellow, it means — well, reputedly smart. It means you have a chair at a think tank. So you sit there and you think and then you write what you think and then the think tank publishes it. Nobody buys it, nobody reads it, but you are heralded as great thinker.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, this guy\u2019s right, he said protests didn\u2019t hurt Reagan, and they\u2019re not gonna stop Trump. This kind of thing happened during Reagan\u2019s first term. Reagan was despised as much as Bush was and is despised as much as Trump. In fact, some of the comparisons of Trump are identical to those made about Reagan. He\u2019s disengaged, stupid, doesn\u2019t know politics, doesn\u2019t know the Constitution, he\u2019s an idiot, he\u2019s lazy, and all these things, and the guy documents how all of this didn\u2019t matter a whit. It didn\u2019t affect anything. Reagan got his agenda.<\/p>\n

And I think where we are with all of this, like Scott Pelley opened the CBS Evening News<\/a> last night by calling Trump divorced from reality. He said, “It\u2019s been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality.” So the media is caught up on trying to prove every Trump lie. The one thing they got all hot and bothered about yesterday was when Trump said the murder rate was an all-time high or 47-year high.<\/p>\n

The media went into gear and they fact checked it, “Trump\u2019s lying! Trump\u2019s wrong! The murder rate\u2019s actually been coming down. Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.” And then Trump attacks the media and so the media decides to defend itself. And I think what I\u2019ve said about this campaign and this presidency, going back to the first days of this campaign, is that they still do not know what they\u2019re dealing with here in Trump. But the most important thing that the media does not know: They do not know, even today, who elected Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t the foggiest idea. They haven\u2019t gone out and talked to them. They have a caricatured image of the Trump voter, and let me describe who they think Trump voters are. They\u2019re missing one or both front teeth. They chew tobacco or smoke cigarettes and they spit constantly while sitting on the front porch reading the latest from the National Rifle Association. They have pickup trucks and they go to church. They didn\u2019t get much beyond high school, if even that. They are poor. They are middle to lower middle class. They are 100 percent white. They are 80% male, 20% female. There are no gays and lesbians or transgenders or cisgenders or oddball genders or any other genders that voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they think of the Trump voter. They also do not know that the average Trump voters tune them out. They don\u2019t know that the average Trump voter is not paying \u2019em any attention. They\u2019re going about trying to destroy Trump in the tried and tested ways that they\u2019ve been able to destroy any Republican they\u2019ve wanted to in the past. And they\u2019re missing the mark. And they\u2019re missing the mark because they still don\u2019t know who elected Trump.<\/p>\n

They have this negative caricature of people who are idiots, uninformed, ignoramus racists and bigots, and they think that they can take Trump out by talking about how Trump lied about the murder rate and Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking, he wants a religious ban on people. They think they can lie about what Trump\u2019s doing or even report the truth about what Trump\u2019s doing in a sneering way and think they can do damage to Trump. And by do damage, I mean destroy his presidency, and it isn\u2019t going to work.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think the media is effectively right now in a circular firing squad and doesn\u2019t know it. I think the Democrat Party\u2019s in the middle of that circular firing squad. Can I give you an example? We\u2019ll get to the Fauxcahontas details here in just a second. We\u2019ll get to the oral arguments before the Ninth Circus yesterday, because, folks, I have to tell you, two of those — there are three judges in the Ninth Circus. It\u2019s a three-judge panel, and two of those judges didn\u2019t even ask about the law.<\/p>\n

They asked about Trump\u2019s opinion. They asked about Trump\u2019s attitudes. They asked about Trump\u2019s psychology. Even the lawyer representing the opposition to Trump told the judges that they should take into account what Trump had said on the campaign trail in determining whether or not his executive order is constitutional.<\/p>\n

That has nothing to do with it! There is a statute, there is a law that applies here, and it\u2019s cut-and-dried. And it clearly gives the president total control over who gets into the country after he declares certain danger zones, certain problems that exist. It clearly states the president is in total control. Where this case hinges legally is on the constitutional rights of some who are not citizens, because even though as a noncitizen, you don\u2019t have constitutional rights. An illegal alien does not have constitutional rights, so whether the president\u2019s constitutional or unconstitutional shouldn\u2019t and does not apply.<\/p>\n

However, there are some individuals who are not citizens who by virtue of other aspects of law are treated as citizens, and that\u2019s where there is some gray area in this statute. But that\u2019s not even it. That wasn\u2019t even explored. And I have to tell you, the Trump DOJ lawyer was horrible. Did you listen to any of this, Mr. Snerdley? It was… (interruption) Folks, it was… This guy… I mean, he even said to the judges, “You know, I got the feeling I\u2019m not persuading you.” He said, “Well, please, if we lose here, don\u2019t make it too bad.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listening to this. “Is this the best that they\u2019ve got over there to send over to the Ninth Circus?” Maybe they figure they\u2019re gonna lose there anyway. Here is the two things. Trump has tweeted <\/a>— and he made the speech to the sheriffs today — National Association of Sheriffs — and he criticized these judges, and he said, “I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re biased; I\u2019m saying it\u2019s political. I can\u2019t believe how political this was. I listened to it. I can\u2019t believe how political it is.” People are saying, “Don\u2019t start attacking the judges before they rule!<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no way they can rule for you now because now it would look like you successfully intimidated \u2019em. These people are in the judiciary, and they\u2019ve got lifetime appointments.” They\u2019re gonna stay there long after Trump\u2019s gone. “They\u2019re not gonna be intimidated by you and they\u2019re not gonna act like they are.” So a lot of people think Trump buried his own case here by going out there and ripping him. But his supporters love it. That\u2019s the difference: The Trump voters like it.<\/p>\n

The Trump voters like Trump telling these corrupt and politicized judicial people the truth. He likes telling them off, and they like him telling them off, because everybody knows our judiciary has been corrupted by politics. Everybody knows that the left has populated the judiciary not with judges, but with liberal activists and hacks. And there were two of \u2019em on that three-judge panel yesterday. Now, here\u2019s the second thing, and this is an even better example. Are you aware that the famous upper-tier and high-class department store chain Nordstrom decided to get rid of all Ivanka Trump products?
\nPurses, lipstick, whatever Ivanka makes fashion related. Whatever it is, they publicly announced that they\u2019re getting rid of Ivanka stuff, and it was last week. Well, Trump today tweeted how bad he thinks that is. He tweeted it, and he slammed Nordstrom for getting rid of his daughter\u2019s fashion line. He said, “Her fashions are great, her products are great, and Nordstrom is also being political and making a dumb, stupid move here.” Well, I watched this on CNN, and they had a panel assembled to discuss this.<\/p>\n

The consensus on the panel was, “You don\u2019t do this! Presidents don\u2019t do this! This is something a father would do. A father would defend his daughter. But you don\u2019t go out there and pick winners and losers. The president, with his microphone and with his bully pulpit, shouldn\u2019t be going out there and criticizing individual businesses that are making business decisions!” See, that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on. Nordstrom didn\u2019t make a business decision; they made a political decision, I think.<\/p>\n

I have some experience with this kind of rot, and I think this is a pure political decision that Nordstrom made. This is not business. They\u2019ll hide under the umbrella that it\u2019s business. And to a certain extent, it is. But, I mean, it\u2019s politics driving it. And that\u2019s what Trump was talking about in his review of the oral arguments of the Ninth Circus. He was simply saying he can\u2019t believe how political this is. This is the law! We\u2019re talking about the law here! What has politics got to do with it?<\/p>\n

\"\"So he goes out, he defends his daughter — and I\u2019m gonna tell you again: Trump supporters who hear about this — the people that voted for Trump — stand up and cheer when he does this. The fact that it\u2019s not something presidents do doesn\u2019t matter to them. Because these people have seen people on their side be savagely, personally assaulted and attacked with lies and distortions, and they\u2019re fed up with nobody pushing back against it. People that vote for Donald Trump, I don\u2019t know whether they buy Ivanka Trump stuff or not; that\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n

Ivanka Trump may as well be Donald Trump in this instance. So Nordstrom effectively, as far as Trump supporters are concerned, told Donald Trump to take a hike by telling his daughter to take a hike, and Trump supporters are also saying, “Why punish the daughter because you don\u2019t like the man, the president? It\u2019s not fair; it\u2019s not right.” This is the kind of thing the left has gotten away with for years, being able to… I mean, the left, it\u2019s okay for them to boycott. It\u2019s okay for them to politicize business.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay for them to threaten and bully businesses into bands or not selling certain products, or advertising certain places. Oh, that\u2019s perfectly fine for the left to do that! Nobody says anything. That\u2019s perfectly fine. That\u2019s capitalism at work, supposedly. But when a president\u2019s daughter is affected and he sends out a tweet ripping Nordstrom for doing this? No, no, no! We\u2019re not supposed to do that. That\u2019s not presidential. That\u2019s something a father would do, but this is very, very bad.<\/p>\n

Now, I will concede that the vast majority of political establishment types will agree in unison that Trump\u2019s tweet slamming Nordstrom. “Bad move! Wrong move! Not presidential.” But Trump\u2019s voters say, “Right on,” whether they buy Ivanka\u2019s stuff or not, because Trump voters are sick and tired, fed up with the one-sided rules that exist on the American political playing field today where Republicans and conservatives can be banned, can be fired, dismissed with no pushback whatsoever. Whatever the left wants!<\/p>\n

If a pizza shop won\u2019t sell to gay people, then the pizza shop should be put out of business. If the photography studio or if the baker won\u2019t cater a gay wedding, put \u2019em out of business. Nobody pushes back against it. Nobody says this is wrong. Nobody attempts to reverse it. Nobody comes to the defense of the businesses under attack. Well, Donald Trump has come to the defense of his daughter, a business under attack — and I\u2019m here to tell you that the people that voted for Trump and support Trump have not one problem with that.<\/p>\n

In fact, they\u2019re probably cheering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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