{"id":227466,"date":"2017-03-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227466"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T20:49:40","slug":"trump-declares-war-on-freedom-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/30\/trump-declares-war-on-freedom-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Declares War on the Freedom Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A quick question, ladies and gentlemen, right to you from the EIB Network. Should a Democrat, any Democrat, now praise President Trump\u2019s good judgment for bashing the House Freedom Caucus? Should that happen? Because that\u2019s what President Trump has done. President Trump and Paul Ryan have gone public with their fight against the Freedom Caucus.I was telling Mr. Snerdley mere moments ago, &#8220;I know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/24\/today-is-just-the-beginning-on-health-care\/\">I predicted this<\/a>. I know I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was last week. It had to be a week ago today or maybe a week ago tomorrow, but I warned everybody when this bill went down tubes. In fact, it was&#8230; The bill didn\u2019t go down the tubes while we were on the air. It went down the tubes on a Friday about a half hour after the program, a week ago tomorrow it went down the tubes, but I remember it was last Thursday or Friday. It probably was last Friday. I warned everybody where this was gonna lead was Trump seeking out the Democrats, if Trump couldn\u2019t get what he wanted with the Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don\u2019t get on the team, &amp; fast. We must fight them, &amp; Dems, in 2018!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/847435163143454723\">March 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I know I did, because I was talking about this. In the Democrats, we have two factions. We have the whole caucus and the Congressional Black Caucasians, and that\u2019s it. On the Republican side, we have the whole House caucus, but then we\u2019ve got the Tuesday Group, the Wednesday morning group, the Thursday night group, the Freedom Caucus. We got all those disparate groups there, and very rarely are they unified. The Democrats are unified because the Congressional Black Caucasians go along with whatever the majority of the House wants.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it is very rare that the Congressional Black Caucasians oppose the Democrat leadership. And I pointed out that if Trump wants to get things done, and it\u2019s Republicans, whoever it is &#8212; the Freedom Caucus, the Wednesday group, the Thursday group &#8212; if they are perceived to be the reasons that his agenda is stalled, he\u2019s gonna turn to the Democrats. I know I warned people about this. And now that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying he\u2019s gonna do, and the New York Times is all happy. The New York Times says he should do it. He should go work with the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-227490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ryan-510x382.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>And Paul Ryan says (whispering), &#8220;I don\u2019t think he should work with the Democrats.&#8221; But the New York Times says (shouting), &#8220;I think he should work with the Democrats!&#8221; Paul Ryan (muttering), &#8220;I &#8212; I &#8212; I don\u2019t think so.&#8221; Well, right there it is. &#8220;Trump: &#8216;We Must Fight\u2019 Hard-Line Conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 Midterm Elections.&#8221; You know what this means? It means Trump is going to put his muscle behind defeating conservatives in the House of Representatives because he believes they betrayed him on the health care bill, and I know that\u2019s what the media is writing.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s what the establishment Republicans believe. But everybody hates the conservatives. But I\u2019m telling you: It was not the conservatives that sandbagged that bill. And I\u2019ll tell you something else. Folks, forgive me here, but I\u2019m reaching the top limit of my frustration with all of this. Year after year it\u2019s tempting, and everybody gets caught up in the analysis and gets caught up in the game, and everybody, and I\u2019ve done it myself. You take something, anything.<\/p>\n<p>This is a generic example. Something happens in the news, and everyone starts analyzing it: What does it mean? Analyst A says, &#8220;It means this,&#8221; Analyst B says, &#8220;Well, it could mean that but it might mean this and this,&#8221; and Analyst C says, &#8220;No, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about,&#8221; and everybody gets caught up in what it could mean, what it might mean, what might happen down the road and in the end result&#8230; Let\u2019s get back to specific health care. We got all this chatter. We had all these people talking about it, all these intentions expressed, all these carrots dangled.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019re dangling the carrot, &#8220;Hey, you know what? We\u2019re gonna revive it. Hey, we\u2019re gonna bring it back.&#8221; Yesterday it was, &#8220;We might bring it back soon. We might bring it back next week.&#8221; Today Paul Ryan says, &#8220;There\u2019s no timeline for bringing it back.&#8221; It\u2019s obvious they want the PR from saying they\u2019re gonna bring it back, but what is the truth day in and day out? There isn\u2019t any reform, there isn\u2019t any repeal of Obamacare. All this chatter and all this analysis &#8212; which is designed to make people in the media look brilliant and smart and insightful &#8212; doesn\u2019t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of yesterday, Obamacare was still the law of the land. At the end of today, it\u2019s still gonna be the law of the land. At the end of tomorrow, it\u2019s still gonna be the law of the land. When Trump gets together with the ChiCom president in Mar-a-Lago next week, it\u2019s still gonna be the law of the land. But yet everybody\u2019s gonna be getting entitled, chatting about it, analyzing it, forecasting it, predicting it, and so forth. And it\u2019s easy to get caught up in the game. I mean, it\u2019s how people make their bones. It\u2019s where people make their reputations. &#8220;I\u2019m a superior political analyst.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been quoted countless times on Fox News. I\u2019m just this close to getting a book deal and then my career will be made!&#8221; &#8220;Well, how did you do all that?&#8221; &#8220;Well, I give people the possibilities.&#8221; &#8220;I\u2019m an excellent analyst of what\u2019s happening in the political scene.&#8221; What is there to analyze? Other than to assign blame. For seven-years&#8230; You know, Philip Klein in the Washington Examiner? You know who Philip Klein is? (interruption) Well, he\u2019s Philip Klein, and he has a piece in the Washington Examiner. You know what he wrote about this health care blow up?<\/p>\n<p>He said this is the biggest without question broken promise in the history of United States politics and maybe even world politics. The biggest promise ever broken. Seven years of assurances. Seven years of campaigning. Seven years of commitments. Seven years of people voting. Well, not that many years, but election after election where Republicans were elected because of what they said they were gonna do. And then it was time for the rubber to hit the road, nobody even had a plan!<\/p>\n<p>And the people out selling the man couldn\u2019t even tell you what was in it! Because they didn\u2019t know, in many cases. Washington Post: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/trump-we-must-fight-hard-line-conservative-freedom-caucus-in-2018-midterm-elections\/2017\/03\/30\/56783e38-154e-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.cba47c2e2c99\">Trump: &#8216;We Must Fight\u2019 Hard-Line Conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 Midterm Elections<\/a>.&#8221; It\u2019s by Philip Rucker. &#8220;President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the health-care bill, vowing to &#8216;fight them\u2019 in the 2018 midterm elections.&#8221; Let me tell you something else about this. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-226302 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Untitled-1-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Untitled-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Untitled-1-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Your hard-core average Trump voter isn\u2019t going to care about this. I had it said to me this morning, &#8220;Trump\u2019s making a grave tactically error if he does this. Whoever\u2019s advising him to do this, this is a huge mistake!&#8221; No, it\u2019s not. Trump voters are wedded to Trump, a big percentage of them. If this is what their man has to do to get things done, then this is what their man has to do to get things done. Let me ask Mr. Snerdley, who\u2019s an insightful political analyst, loves to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Trump will hurt himself with this? (interruption) I\u2019m not so sure. But we can\u2019t know that until the next election. &#8220;In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would &#8216;hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don\u2019t get on the team, &amp; fast.\u2019 He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat &#8212; an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are 32 members of the Freedom Caucus. &#8220;Most of them were elected or reelected comfortably in solidly Republican districts. With his tweet, Trump seemed to be encouraging primary challenges to each of them in next year\u2019s elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the media can\u2019t get its tongue off the sidewalk here. This may be one of the quickest 180 degree turns from hate to love that we will witness. Now that Trump is reaching out to the Democrats &#8212; well, now that Trump is savaging the conservative Freedom Caucus, the media is, well, they\u2019ve gotta praise it.<\/p>\n<p>I told you what\u2019s gonna happen. Trump\u2019s gonna be praised. He\u2019s going to be celebrated as having grown in office. And I\u2019ll tell you who\u2019s gonna get the credit. Jared Kushner and Ivanka and Dina Powell, Goldman Sachs. Dina Powell worked with Gary Cohn at Goldman Sachs. Dina Powell, there\u2019s a puff piece at TheHill.com. TheHill.com which hates Trump, TheHill.com which despises Republicans. There are a couple writers there that don\u2019t, but general editorial position (unintelligible).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_227493\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227493\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-227493\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DinaPowell-207x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DinaPowell-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DinaPowell.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-227493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dina Powell<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/326436-meet-president-trumps-ms-fix-it\">There\u2019s a puff piece on Dina Powell.<\/a> You ever heard of Dina Powell? You might have, depending on how deeply &#8212; she ran a foundation at Goldman Sachs. She wasn\u2019t a trader. She wasn\u2019t a money babe. Gary Cohn, C-o-h-n was a trader at Goldman Sachs. He is hard left Democrat. People have been wondering how did he end up there in the Trump administration, his adviser? Dina Powell is his loyal lieutenant. She\u2019s got puff piece today on how she is a moderating influence and how everyone likes her and how everyone admires her.<\/p>\n<p>Are you surprised? I mean, you would never see a puff piece like this about Bannon. You would never see a puff piece like this about Priebus. You wouldn\u2019t see a puff piece like this about Mick Mulvaney, who is the budget director. But Dina Powell, big, big, big puff piece. And there are continuing pieces on Ivanka and Jared Kushner, her husband, as they\u2019re becoming the power couple of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Axios, the new website started by the founder of The Politico. &#8220;Friends who talk frequently to Trump tell us the President will make one big change in response to the health-care fiasco: In the constant check-in phone calls for which he\u2019s famous, he\u2019s going to talk with a wider array of people &#8212; and include more Democrats,&#8221; in his phone calls. And then the next story. Where do you think this is leading, ladies and gentlemen?<\/p>\n<p>New York Times lead editorial: &#8220;Why Democrats Should Work With Trump.&#8221; All of a sudden now it\u2019s okay. The next thing we\u2019re gonna see, if this keeps up, it isn\u2019t gonna be long before there\u2019s a New York Times headline urging the House and the Senate investigating committees to drop the investigation into collusion between Trump and the Russians. The New York Times is going to say it\u2019s gone on long enough. It is too distracting. After all of this time and after all of this money spent investigating this, if they still haven\u2019t found any provable evidence that there was collusion, it\u2019s time to drop it.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump continues his outreach to Democrats, I\u2019m predicting to you that it won\u2019t be long before the Drive-By Media urges itself and the Senate and the House to suspend the investigation. Now, you may think, &#8220;Rush, that\u2019ll never happen. They\u2019re never gonna give up on that.&#8221; Folks, they may have to because I think this investigation\u2019s actually gonna ensnare them before it\u2019s all said and done.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to the New York Times. &#8220;President Trump has discovered that trying to work with the Republicans is complicated. &#8230; So with all his big campaign pledges in limbo following last week\u2019s Obamacare fiasco, he reportedly is contemplating overtures to a party that actually wants to govern: the Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe this? Listen to this, the exact words. &#8220;He\u2019s reportedly is contemplating overtures to a party that actually wants to govern: the Democrats.&#8221; I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see that in a news story as well, but it is in an editorial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps,&#8221; writes the New York Times, &#8220;Perhaps it\u2019s beginning to dawn on the president that today\u2019s Republican Party is designed for maximal obstruction and minimal constructive policy making. The rigidly doctrinaire Freedom Caucus essentially has veto power over White House initiatives, while moderates will jump ship if Mr. Trump concedes too much to right-wing purists. What\u2019s more, Republicans are all over the map on the next big items on Mr. Trump\u2019s agenda &#8212; tax reform and infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told you that that\u2019s where the Democrats were gonna be. I know I told you this, because that was specific. They couldn\u2019t wait to work with Trump on that. Yeah, even Mr. Snerdley remembers. Tax reform, can\u2019t do that unless we do health care, and health care is down the tubes, so up next is infrastructure. Trump reaching out to the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219597 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-013117-Schumer-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-013117-Schumer-Pelosi.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-013117-Schumer-Pelosi-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>They say if Trump could &#8220;peel off several dozen moderate Democrats in the House and a handful in the Senate, he could neutralize the far right\u2019s naysaying and give moderate Republicans a chance to vote for measures with broad, bipartisan support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sad to say this was in the cards. I think the Freedom Caucus is getting a very bad rap as being the reason &#8212; that bill, folks, there were two ways to look at it. The bill by itself maintained Obamacare aspects. So why vote for it? It maintained Obamacare aspects. In some cases premiums were going to increase. Why do this? Why put your name to that? Why would any Republican do it? Unless the objective was just get a win, just say within 60 days we tackled the biggest legislative issue to come down the pike, and we got it done. See? We repealed and reformed, except there wasn\u2019t gonna be any of that. They needed phase 2 and phase 3.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Caucus said there\u2019s nothing here. Freedom Caucus said, &#8220;You know what? The people urging us to vote for this are not even telling us what\u2019s in it. They\u2019re not selling it to us. They\u2019re telling us to vote for it, to stick with party unity, to make sure that it looks like the party\u2019s united, but nobody\u2019s telling us the decent things. So we went in, we got some concessions, we got some things that we wanted in it, but not enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think a real analysis of this would show that the greater number of defections was actually going to be among the so-called moderates in the House. But the conservatives are always gonna get the blame because the Washington establishment, both parties, despises them. Not news there, either. I told you that for years. You\u2019re probably tired of hearing that by now. But it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Weekly press briefing, Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill, saying Trump should not work with the Democrats on health care.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-227585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Freedom-Caucus-SMALL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Freedom-Caucus-SMALL.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Freedom-Caucus-SMALL-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RYAN: Well, because about 90% of our conference is there and about 10% are not. So that\u2019s why I say we\u2019re close \u2019cause we are. Here\u2019s the point I\u2019m making here. The Democrats aren\u2019t for repealing Obamacare. We are. (chuckle) We work with Democrats all the time. So we have long histories of working with Democrats, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a stretch of the mind to suggest that the Democrats disagree with us on repealing Obamacare. They\u2019re not going to help us repeal Obamacare. That\u2019s my point. And so if we\u2019re going to do what we said we would do which is repeal and replace Obamacare and save the American health care system, something tells me the Democrats aren\u2019t gonna help us repeal Obamacare. They\u2019re the ones who created it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. That\u2019s absolutely true. And remember, Trump is not ideological. He\u2019s not seeing&#8230; The Freedom Caucus, what he sees, is a bunch of guys that voted against him.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s another thing about this threat to the Freedom Caucus in terms of Trump\u2019s tweet today, and you have to look at it as a threat. He\u2019s not yet abandoned them. But clearly, if you go look at this, Trump said the Freedom Caucus would, quote, &#8220;hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don\u2019t get on the team and fast.&#8221; Now, two things about this. For all of you who think that Paul Ryan is the problem in the House, Trump here is siding with him. Number one. That\u2019s what this tweet means.<\/p>\n<p>So the health care bill going down the tubes, Trump is not blaming Ryan for it. He\u2019s clearly blaming the Freedom Caucus. But he\u2019s not abandoning them yet, if we the interpret the tweet correctly. He said, &#8220;if they don\u2019t get on the team and fast.&#8221; Well, I\u2019m assuming that that means in the next piece of legislation. If. Whatever it is. If it\u2019s the revival of Obamacare &#8212; the repeal and replace effort &#8212; if it is tax reform, if it is infrastructure, if the Freedom Caucus doesn\u2019t get on board, then Trump is gonna try to take \u2019em out in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I look at it as Trump (chuckles) giving you them one more chance here. But in the final analysis, it means that Trump is siding with Ryan here, not with Ryan in any way other than the health care bill being defeated. Trump is not holding Ryan in any way, shape, manner, or form responsible. I know many of you do, but this means that Trump isn\u2019t. You also have to keep in mind that Trump is not ideological. I have made this point over and over.<\/p>\n<p>He knows what conservative policies are, he knows what liberalism is, but he doesn\u2019t see people that way. It\u2019s a big difference. You look at Chuck Schumer\u2019s opposition to Gorsuch. Trump doesn\u2019t chalk it up to the fact that Schumer is a liberal. He chalks it up to the fact that Schumer is, you know, a de facto ill body part or he\u2019s a weird guy, just a mean guy or wrong or whatever. But Trump is typical of many Americans. They don\u2019t think ideologically, they don\u2019t analyze ideologically, they don\u2019t even know ideology.<\/p>\n<p>These people, you start talking about liberalism or conservatism, you lose them. About as far as they go is Republican versus Democrat, but conservative\/liberal? Ach! Sadly, that is the case. I wish it were otherwise. So the Freedom Caucus&#8230; I think Trump\u2019s a media creature. The Freedom Caucus has been blamed; I don\u2019t know how you escape that. Trump sees these guys as people who opposed him. He\u2019s a Republican president. He\u2019s largely responsible, in his mind, for their having acquired power, and they\u2019re opposing him.<\/p>\n<p>N-n-n-n-nooo. He doesn\u2019t see \u2019em as a bunch of conservatives who have to be swayed. Now, he\u2019s got people in his regime that no doubt do. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m talking about Trump himself. And it\u2019s also possible that Trump is becoming more sensitive or attuned to ideology than he was and always has been as a private citizen. I\u2019m just telling you, everybody has their own makeup &#8212; their own personality and political makeup &#8212; and Trump has not been someone who decides on policy based on the ideological aspect or component of it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give you an example of the branding on this. One of the places that I play golf, when we all gather there &#8212; and this group I know is made up of people who always vote Republican. Many of them do not like conservatives because their wives have nagged \u2019em on abortion. Look, it is what it is. They have a misunderstanding of it, even though they are. Even though they live their lives this way, even though when you listen to them talk, you would swear they are conservative. You call \u2019em that and they say, &#8220;No, no, no, no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225728 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpFlagWest-Palm-FLA-101316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpFlagWest-Palm-FLA-101316.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpFlagWest-Palm-FLA-101316-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>All right. You take 10 of us sitting around the table having breakfast before we go out to the range, and a dyed-in-the-wool movement conservative will sit down at the table and start talking about whatever the latest news is in dyed-in-the-wool conservative terms. Half the group of 10 will get up and leave. They don\u2019t want to hear it. They think the guy\u2019s a kook &#8212; think the guy\u2019s a literal kook &#8212; and all he\u2019s doing is talking conservatism, traditional American values. They think he\u2019s a kook. These are the people that I\u2019m talking about. They don\u2019t see things ideologically.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, these people, when you do get to ideology, they kind of get nervous and back off.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t want anybody to think that they\u2019re conservative.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re happy to be considered Republicans. You know, I sent a little tweet, a note. We\u2019re gonna play golf or&#8230; Eh, let me make something up. We\u2019re gonna play golf a couple weeks from now &#8212; and the incident that I just described, by the way, did happen. So I\u2019ll send a note out to the guys, &#8220;Okay, I\u2019ll set us up for X such-and-such a club. I\u2019ll make sure that we don\u2019t have any more conservatives interrupt us,&#8221; and I got responses, &#8220;Please do! Please make sure! Don\u2019t let that happen again,&#8221; as though it\u2019s my fault.<\/p>\n<p>But the dyed-in-the-wool conservative sat down at the breakfast and talked to me about it. And the others looked at him like, you know, who opened the gates at the zoo? Well, that\u2019s Trump. But it\u2019s the same thing with liberals too. Don\u2019t misunderstand. He doesn\u2019t like Schumer. But the reason he doesn\u2019t like Schumer and the reason he sees Schumer as a threat is because Schumer is against him, and that\u2019s what he sees in the Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I say, he may be growing, learning more and becoming more understanding of things ideological. Don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s important to know that he isn\u2019t. So his opposition to the Freedom Caucus is not strictly because they\u2019re conservative. It\u2019s mostly because he thinks that they voted against him. And if you\u2019re not on his team, you know, he\u2019s not gonna woo you. You either join him or you\u2019re out in the cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Remember, Trump is not ideological.  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