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RUSH: This is Jimmy, Quincy, Illinois. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, hey, thank you, Rush. Hey, you know, early in the show you mentioned that you\u2019ve started to feel that the worm was turning and that the Democrats have overplayed their hand with Russia for so long. I just noticed in the pre-Trump era the Republicans would have caved in long before now. You know, the Trump supporters just don\u2019t cave that easily. And I wanted to ask you, get your take on this. You know, obstructionism is gonna continue in some form, but I\u2019m starting to see people worrying about Pelosi. And I\u2019m starting to see a little crack in their armor.<\/p>\n

\"\"And I\u2019m wondering, you know, much like what we saw last week in the Georgia 6th election, what happens a year from now when people are really PO\u2019d that obstructionism limited what we could do with health care or tax reform? In the old days we would say, “Well, that\u2019s really gonna hurt Trump.” But I think the electorate is more educated, they pay attention to you, they pay attention to somebody besides the mainstream media, and I think the Democrats are gonna lose big if they\u2019re successful with obstructionism. And in fact some of them may slowly cave because there\u2019s some senators that are running in states that Trump won big, and I think it would be so ironic if —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the Dems —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — if the Dems turned the tide for Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a very, very shrewd question. It\u2019s multifaceted. There are not many hosts who could follow the thread of your question, but I have. When you talk, by the way, of obstructionism, you\u2019re talking about the Democrats obstructing Trump; you\u2019re not talking about Trump obstructing justice. I just want to make it clear for people what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom, every election is that Democrats are gonna win in a landslide, no matter what the circumstances, and we\u2019re into that conventional wisdom now. The Democrats are gonna win in a landslide in 2018 for all of the usual reasons. One of the reasons is we hate Trump and so we think everybody hates Trump. Number two, people hate the Republicans anyway and regret that they were elected, and people love the Democrats and think the Democrats care about people and so the Democrats, especially after this, are gonna sail through. Now, hang on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so now the general consensus, the conventional wisdom every election is the Democrats are gonna win. They\u2019re gonna win all these special elections, remember? They\u2019re gonna win Georgia-6. They were gonna win all four. And when they lost the conventional wisdom was that they had won and that they had gotten closer than anybody thought.<\/p>\n

So the conventional wisdom descends from there. Right now the conventional wisdom is that Trump is hated, that Trump may have cheated and stolen the election with the Russians. It\u2019s what they believe inside the Beltway. And believe me, they act as though everybody believes it.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s part of the trick. That\u2019s part of the coverage of news is to make it look like that they\u2019re not doing anything but reflecting what massive majorities of Americans already think, as in massive numbers of Americans want anybody to be able to use whatever bathroom they want any day of the week, any time of day. Massive majorities of Americans believe that marriage can mean anything you want if you\u2019re in love with whatever or whoever. And of course that\u2019s not true, either. Massive majorities don\u2019t believe either. And massive majorities do not believe the Democrats deserve to win every election.<\/p>\n

So the question in 2018 is: Who\u2019s vulnerable? Well, right now, the truth of the matter is, if the election were tomorrow, the Democrats would lose and lose big again. But not because of the Republicans. They would lose because of Trump and themselves. The real question for 2018 is the Republicans, there is some vulnerability there. What happens if, after seven years of House Republicans promising, swearing, guaranteeing to repeal Obamacare, and the reality of not doing it, House or Senate, what\u2019s the price?<\/p>\n

The only thing saving Republicans is gonna be Donald Trump and the Democrats. Donald Trump\u2019s base is nowhere near upset with him, angry with him, nowhere near it. They\u2019re nowhere near abandoning him, but Trump isn\u2019t gonna be on the ballot in 2018. I think the Democrats are in heap big trouble, despite whatever is going on with the Republicans. Look, the Republicans won last year, what did they do? Most of the Republicans that won weren\u2019t even for Trump. Most of the Republicans that won didn\u2019t expect to win. Well, they didn\u2019t expect to win the majority. I\u2019m talking about in the House. They weren\u2019t expecting — that\u2019s part of the problem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very early. Political preexisting conditions are risky. Anything can happen at any time. I\u2019m not gonna go on record here with a prediction for 2018, other than to tell you that the Drive-By Media conventional wisdom is not right. You can be fairly confident in not going along with that. But the caller\u2019s theory is the Democrats are doing everlasting damage to themselves with the way they\u2019re pursuing Trump, obstructing Trump, getting in the way of Trump, implementing his agenda, and I think that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

I think there are a lot of people that want Trump to do what he said he was gonna do. I think a lot of people can\u2019t wait for Trump to do what he said he was gonna do, including draining the swamp, building the wall, fixing Obamacare, tax reform, that had better happen. That had better happen. There\u2019s so much riding on tax reform. Forget reelection. Let\u2019s talk economics. This country\u2019s economic growth demands, it requires tax reform. It must happen. And part and parcel of that, although I don\u2019t think they\u2019re inexorably linked but they are linked in certain ways, and that\u2019s Obamacare and something being done about it that\u2019s an improvement.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story, I forget where I saw it, just had a chance to glance at it. It was some conservative publication, and the author said, “Let\u2019s be honest, we gotta be honest, we gotta be honest, we gotta be honest, there\u2019s no way to repeal Obamacare fully. Just can\u2019t be done. Can\u2019t be done. No way to fully repeal it. It\u2019s got too many woven webs of deceit in there now. We can\u2019t get rid of it, not totally, not totally.” So they\u2019re making excuses for it already. Senate\u2019s where all the action is, Mitch McConnell wants a vote before July 4th. Looks iffy, if you believe the conventional wisdom and the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

But I think the Democrats continue to self-immolate and they don\u2019t know it. The Democrats, they really do believe they\u2019re kicking butt. They think they\u2019re embarrassing Trump, and they think they\u2019re on the road to retaking the House in 2018 and winning the White House in 2020.<\/p>\n

\"\"They think they\u2019ve already done it. They think they\u2019ve already accomplished it. They\u2019ve already destroyed Trump. They\u2019re gonna keep on to dot the I, cross the T, but they think they\u2019ve succeeded, even though there are whispers to back off. Even though the polls don\u2019t indicate that they\u2019re successful, they tell themselves that they\u2019re doing a great job. They\u2019re doing a bang-up job. They got Comey on their side. They got the deep state on their side. They got the media on their side running the show. They can\u2019t lose, they\u2019re telling themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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