{"id":225111,"date":"2017-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=225111"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:28:36","slug":"taking-on-the-establishment-was-always-going-to-be-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/10\/taking-on-the-establishment-was-always-going-to-be-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking On the Establishment Was Always Going to Be Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got an email last night from a friend very depressed, very, very depressed. Ardent Trump supporter. Very depressed. And you know what depressed him? When I say “depressed,” that\u2019s the wrong word. Disappointed. And it made me ask myself how many people are of the same train of thought. You know what bothered the guy more than anything? Aside from tax cuts.<\/p>\n

\"\"He thinks that we\u2019re being sold down the river on tax cuts and they\u2019re never gonna do it \u2019cause the Republicans in Congress don\u2019t want to do it. And that was his primary reason for supporting Trump. Not getting rid of Obamacare and not jobs and not trade, but cutting taxes. And he really thought that was gonna be one of the top two or three agenda items. And he heard Mitch McConnell, the turtle, say yesterday that there\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna get to this by August, even though Trump\u2019s Treasury secretary said we would get it done by August.<\/p>\n

So the guy sends me this note and he\u2019s talking about these things, and what really bothered him was, “There isn\u2019t anybody in Washington that seems to like Trump. I\u2019m shocked by this. And that\u2019s gonna be a problem. There\u2019s nobody.” And I was dumbfounded by this.<\/p>\n

Let me ask you a question, folks. You\u2019ve listened to me, you listen to me daily, you listen to me hourly, you listen to me by the minute, and therefore there\u2019s nothing that you don\u2019t know. It just depends on how much you remember. How many of you expected Donald Trump to be loved and adored by a significant percentage of the people in Washington? I didn\u2019t. I thought he would be hated and reviled for as many terms as he\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

None of what is happening in Washington to Donald Trump is the — and I\u2019m not trying to criticize my friend. I\u2019m always fascinated by the way people think. And my guy had a lot of hope and a lot of hope that once Trump got elected and once everybody came to grips with that, that Trump\u2019s agenda is something everybody with common sense just has to get behind. Because it\u2019s good for the country.<\/p>\n

So after the initial anger at having lost, the initial anger and humiliation evaporating over having lost, that people, not just Democrats, but just people in general — not the media — but just people in general would be a little bit more open to working with Trump and helping his agenda.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I never thought that. I thought from day one Trump was gonna have a slog. I thought from day one it was going to be the vast majority of Washington against Donald Trump. I have thought from day one that his entire presidency, least the majority of the first term is gonna be uphill. But how many of you thought that after a certain passage of time — and maybe this is too soon — but how many of you thought that after six months or a year that the opposition would get it all out of their system and that Trump would have not universal love — I\u2019m not asking that — but just some measure of support.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, the guy goes on to think that because that isn\u2019t happening, he thinks that it\u2019s over. He thinks that, “Well, you know, I guess we gave it our best shot, but there\u2019s so much opposition that\u2019s just intensifying and is never gonna end. I just don\u2019t… I don\u2019t see how this could work.” And I was really surprised, cause this guy knows the way of the world as well as anybody does, and I never thought any of this was gonna eventuate like that. Again, I\u2019m not being critical.<\/p>\n

To me, it\u2019s just fascinating, as I say, to learn the way people think, because then what they tell you they think helps you analyze it, understand it, and respond to it (if you choose to). I\u2019ve thought this was gonna be a knock-down, drag-out. This is the establishment. These people are not gonna… Folks, the way I look at this… Can I be really bold with you? The way I look at this, if Hillary Clinton had won the election, the forces around the world who have sought to end the reign of the United States of America as this world\u2019s leading nation would have won.<\/p>\n

To me, this election was that dire. And it went way beyond the specifics of policy, and it went way beyond what is conservatism and what isn\u2019t conservatism and who\u2019s loyal here. This was all about, to me, the future of the country. There are powerful forces around the world arrayed against this country, some of them peaceful, some of them found all over the United Nations, some of them found in Eastern and Western Europe. I\u2019m talking about, in many ways, nations and people who, at first glance, you would think are our allies.<\/p>\n

\"\"I know the Norks hate us, I know the ChiComs want to wipe us out, and I know the Russians. I\u2019m not talking about those people. I\u2019m talking about Americans who agree with those people. I\u2019m talking about globalists who think that the problem in the world has been the United States of America. I\u2019m talking about people who look as the United States of America as an obstacle to their goals and dreams of world domination with a one-world, unified government, global economy, global this, end the whole concept of nation states and borders.<\/p>\n

I mean, those are the people we were on the cusp of losing to. Well, those people were so close they could see it. If we\u2019d gotten four years of Hillary Clinton or eight — and everything that would happen, policy-wise, judiciary-wise — you have to be up front and admit that America as we knew it was gonna take a huge hit. Well, those people aren\u2019t just gonna go away having been defeated here after being, in their minds, on the cusp of finally reducing this country to being something no different, no better than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

And you get that close to your dream, that close to your objective and have it taken away by this — by some guy they think is a pig, some guy they think is an outsider, some guy they think is a rube — and made possible by the very American people they resent, the very American people they have been governing against for the last eight years, for example? It\u2019s just not gonna go away. And they\u2019re not gonna all of a sudden turn around and like this guy that they hate and resent. They\u2019re not finished, by any stretch, trying to ruin Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna succeed in this instance in the example I gave you. But I\u2019ve never expected Trump to be universal popular in Washington. Never. I\u2019ve thought this is gonna be a never-ending knock-down-drag-out and that every victory he has is going to be met with a brand-new wall of opposition on something else. And the efforts to sabotage his agenda, we see them every day, and I\u2019m not just talking about the deep state embeds. I\u2019m talking about the people that are trying to impede the Trump legislative agenda.<\/p>\n

\"\"They were all over the place, and they\u2019re out there — and we\u2019re only in March here. We\u2019re basically… We\u2019re not even two months into the administration. Now, I think… You know, there\u2019s a story in my Stack today about how Trump is charming people, and it\u2019s one of these things… We\u2019ve seen \u2019em before. It\u2019s the kind of thing that ticks me off every time I see it, because it\u2019s predicated on an image that has been cast by the left and by the media that Trump is a pig, that Trump is a reprobate, that Trump\u2019s this or that or another thing.<\/p>\n

And now when people meet him they find, “Wow, he\u2019s a nice guy,” as though it\u2019s some kind of a surprise that he\u2019s a nice guy. The story\u2019s in Bloomberg: “Trump Woos Lawmakers With Flattery and White House Bowling — Less than two months on the job, President Donald Trump is showing that when it comes to wooing members of Congress, he\u2019s no Barack Obama. Where Obama was usually reserved and met sparingly with lawmakers, Trump has launched a full-out charm offensive, much of it aimed at bolstering the beleaguered Republican Obamacare plan. …<\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s early outreach on a wide range of issues has included Republican leaders, conservatives who opposed him in the election and leading Democrats. On Wednesday evening, he dined with Texas Senator Ted Cruz — and his wife … Cruz said Thursday that Trump and the first lady were ‘warm and gracious,\u2019 and that one of their daughters took a picture with Trump and her kindergarten\u2019s stuffed-animal mascot, Joe the Giraffe.” What, you mean Trump didn\u2019t eat the giraffe and he actually paused to take a picture?<\/p>\n

Wow, what a guy!<\/p>\n

\"\"“The president also called Senator Rand Paul to [Paul]\u2019s opposition to the Obamacare plan. ‘I think we\u2019re wooing each other,\u2019 said Paul…” It even goes on to quote Lindsey Graham as talking about what a nice guy Trump was, what a charmer Trump is. And then Graham says, “He\u2019s conservative but he\u2019s not ideological.” I told you that. “Most of these deals around here fall apart because of ideological objections.” That\u2019s not why most deals fall… Well, now, now, now, wait. I may be jumping in. Most deals fall apart because the left has no desire to work with us and advance our agenda.<\/p>\n

Whether you want to call that ideological breakdown or objection, go ahead. But the reason things don\u2019t happen in this country is the American left, is the Democrat Party. But Lindsey says, “There\u2019s actually a chance for President Trump to do things you could never get another Republican to do,” because Trump\u2019s “not ideological.” I think what he means by that… I\u2019m just taking a flier here. I think what he means by that, since Trump is not… He tends conservative in his lifestyle and his beliefs, the policies that he\u2019s advancing.<\/p>\n

But he doesn\u2019t run around saying, “I\u2019m conservative” and then defining it each and every day, and he\u2019s not out there articulating a bunch of conservative theory. Graham\u2019s point is that he\u2019s not, thus, a giant conservative target, ideological target. And by that Graham says that that means there\u2019s actually “a chance for President Trump to do things you could never get another Republican to do.” That could also mean… Let\u2019s be honest.<\/p>\n

It could also mean that Lindsey Graham (who\u2019s not crazy about conservatives, either), thinks that since Trump is not an ideologue, it\u2019ll be more easy to move him along to agree with, say, amnesty or things the left likes. It could be open ended. It could be any number of things here. “Graham said he encouraged Trump to do more such meetings,” and more outreach. “He\u2019s very charming.” So he encouraged Trump to do more such meetings and more outreach. So this not being ideological, that could cut both ways.<\/p>\n

Could be good and bad. We\u2019ll have to see on this. But, at any rate, I think to a certain extent Trump expected more people to be on his side by now. That\u2019s the history of his life. And I don\u2019t think — I\u2019ve never thought — that was gonna be the case. Why would anybody think that all of a sudden the establishment\u2019s gonna lay down arms and sign up and become kumbaya buddies with Trump? I think he\u2019s got the lay of the land now. I think he\u2019s probably aware that there isn\u2019t gonna be any instant unity here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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