{"id":251931,"date":"2017-10-24T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=251931"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:26:15","slug":"the-cycle-of-anti-trump-outrage-and-derangement-repeats-and-its-not-going-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/24\/the-cycle-of-anti-trump-outrage-and-derangement-repeats-and-its-not-going-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cycle of Anti-Trump Outrage and Derangement Repeats — and It\u2019s Not Going to Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right. Let me lead off by telling you this Corker stuff doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s good theater, but it doesn\u2019t matter. (interruption) What? How do you think it matters? What do you think…? (interruption) No, no. Folks, I\u2019m serious here. I\u2019m using intelligence guided by experience. This is a repeat process of something that\u2019s been happening ever since Trump was inaugurated. Hell, ever since Trump announced his candidacy! There\u2019s the pattern here.<\/p>\n

\"\"Greetings. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light, America\u2019s Real Anchorman, soothing and calming a chaotic nation with dulcet tones — rhetoric and resonance spreading coast to coast via the Golden EIB Microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Anti-Media, Anti-Leftist Studies. (laughing) Telephone number… (interruption) Snerdley says, “You got through that without stuttering.” I don\u2019t stutter. Sometimes I speak faster… Well, I think faster than my mouth can keep up, but I don\u2019t stutter.<\/p>\n

The telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. All right, folks, there\u2019s a pattern here. This endless torrent of news — and it isn\u2019t news. There isn\u2019t any news. In fact, the news is not being reported, and, because of that, a lot of good things are happening and are sneaking by underneath the Drive-By Media radar. So here\u2019s the pattern. An endless torrent of news that we have been deluged with since the coming of Trump, and it\u2019s just repetitive as it can be. Only the minor details change. The general outline is almost always the same.<\/p>\n

Trump has said or done something “outrageous” or somebody says something critical of Trump, and Trump responds to it — which is then characterized as deranged, unfocused, outrageous. And his supporters and the GOP in the country will never recover from it. Every incident we\u2019re told, “This is it!” Every incident, “Trump\u2019s done it now! Trump has stepped over the line this time.” I mean, every time they tell us this. I don\u2019t know how many lines they\u2019ve drawn, but Trump has stepped over all of them.<\/p>\n

And, in the process of stepping over all these lines, he was supposed to have been destroyed after stepping over each one. Trump has self-destructed so many times here that there actually (laughing) is a lesson in self-preservation. But the pattern, it just never stops. Somehow, everybody recovers. Somehow, life goes on. Somehow, the chaos continues; the angst continues. But the cycle repeats itself over and over again, and each time the event happens, there are people on both sides who think, “This is it! This is the worst. It\u2019s over. Trump has really stepped in it this time,” or the left has stepped in it or something.<\/p>\n

And yet everything just keeps going. Now, as you know, I tend to see things optimistically. There are times it takes an effort, requires an effort to do that. But in a way, maybe — just maybe — and I know there\u2019s some people that disagree with me on this… Look, I know some people that love Trump from the get-go, and they supported Trump from the get-go, and they still do. But they\u2019re disheartened. You know why? ‘Cause they want everybody to think of Trump the way they do, and they thought it was gonna be possible.<\/p>\n

I know maybe three people who are not down on Trump in a direct way, but they were thinking that all of this would have died down by now and that the country would have become unified and it\u2019d be what always happens: We give our presidents a chance. And that isn\u2019t happening here. I try to tell these people, “You\u2019re living an illusion if you think that the country unifies or the media and the left unify — particularly around a Republican president — and give the guy a chance. It just doesn\u2019t happen. It never has happened.<\/p>\n

\"\"But there are a lot of people that had so much hope that Trump was gonna be able to come in — and you know what their hope is? You know where it resides? It resides in reality, that Trump\u2019s agenda is exactly what America needs, that Trump\u2019s agenda needs to move — including tax cuts for everybody. But everything in the Trump agenda needs to move forward. And these people that I\u2019m referring to have the… I guess it\u2019s a hope more than a belief that once that agenda is enacted and that the circumstances or situations in the country do continue to demonstrably improve, that all of the criticism and chaos and destruction will end.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had to tell \u2019em, “You\u2019re pipe-dreaming. That\u2019s never… The more successful Trump is, the more insane his opposition is going to be. They\u2019re never gonna come around on anything here.” If you\u2019re using… I\u2019ll just tell this to everybody: If you are hoping for normalcy, however you define it… Like, do you think the Bush eight years were normal? Well, maybe you think the first four years, but how about…? (interruption) You think they were normal compared to this? Okay. Were the eight years of Clinton normal? When I say “normal,” I mean, you got up; you went about your day.<\/p>\n

Whatever was happening in Washington, you knew it was there. You maybe got irritated in some of it and it kept you engaged in all that. But when have we ever had what you think is normal? A lot of people define “normal” as no fighting, no disagreeing. Normal is people getting along. Those days, I don\u2019t remember them. I don\u2019t remember those days. So this quest for normalcy? I understand it, and I understand the desire that people — particularly the opposition to Trump — just wear themselves out. You know, just finally wake up one day and not have any gas left in the tank, and they just shut up and go away.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna happen. (laughing) It just isn\u2019t going to happen. The opposite is gonna happen. The more successful Trump is — and, you know, trying to explain the state of derangement, I went back. Let me see if I can find this very quickly. I went back and looked at some polling data and screenshots of some of the Drive-By Media before the election, like two\/three weeks before the election. Excuse me here. There\u2019s just one piece I\u2019m missing. I had not intended to do this now, which is why I\u2019m having trouble finding it. But just give me… (sigh) We\u2019ll get it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll pop up here when I least expect it to pop up. Anyway, here\u2019s one of them. This is a screenshot from October 23, 2016, one year ago yesterday. It is the New York Times\u2019 presidential forecast, and it has a picture of a smiling Hillary and kind of a cocky Trump. They\u2019re just head shots. Hillary Clinton has a 93% chance to win. Donald Trump at 7%. This is October 23, 2016, at 12:30 p.m. Here\u2019s the other story — and I was gonna do this talking about the Virginia race, the governor\u2019s race. The polling on that race is very tight.<\/p>\n

\"\"It started out with [Ralph] Northam way, way, way in the lead, and now the Republican Ed Gillespie is inching up — and, in fact, in a couple of polls has pulled ahead. But I don\u2019t pay any attention to those, and here is why. Now, here\u2019s October 23rd, one year ago, New York Times: Hillary Clinton: 93% chance to win. This is like a… It\u2019s a tweet, is what it is, with a giant blue square — the graphic — with Hillary and Trump\u2019s faces on there. It\u2019s 93% under her face and 7% under Trump\u2019s. Remember, these people bought that.<\/p>\n

I mean, they really thought it was gonna be a landslide. Then there\u2019s this, and this is from the August 24th CBS News story, 2016. So this is October… Two months before the election. “CBS News: Another survey released Tuesday by Reuters found Hillary Clinton with an even bigger lead of 12 points, leading 45% to Trump\u2019s 33%. A third survey released…” This is my newsreel voice, by the way. The old Movietone newsreel voice, when you saw the news between double features in the movie theater in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Am I dating myself or what?<\/p>\n

“A third survey released Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California found a tighter race, Clinton at 45% and Trump at 43%.” Numbers are hard to follow on the radio but stick with me. So CBS News in August, Reuters: Big 12-point win for Crooked Hillary. “In North Carolina, according to a Monmouth University survey released Wednesday, Clinton holding onto a narrow two-point lead over Trump 44-42. In Ohio, 43-39 Hillary. In Missouri, Trump is ahead by one point, 44-43.”<\/p>\n

So the New York Times tweet: 93% chance Hillary wins. In the CBS story (a compilation of other polls), it\u2019s essentially showing that Hillary had an unsurmountable lead. This poll, the Reuters poll had Hillary (two months before the election) leading Trump 45-33. In reality, Trump won North Carolina 50-46. In Missouri, they had the race a toss-up, Trump ahead 44-43. It ended up 56-37 Trump in Missouri. In Ohio, they had it Hillary Clinton up by five two months before the election. Trump wins Ohio 52-43. (That\u2019s nine points, for those of you in Rio Linda.)<\/p>\n

Iowa, Trump won it by nine points, 51-42. That\u2019s why I ignore the polling. Look at how bad it was. It was universally bad and wrong across the board. But they all believed it! Now, there\u2019s this big thought out there that the Republican Party is in the midst of a civil war. That\u2019s not correct. The Republican Party is not in the middle of a civil war. Ninety percent of Republicans voted for Donald Trump. Ninety percent of Republicans voted for George W. Bush. Ninety-three percent voted for Mitt Romney. Where is the disunity?<\/p>\n

There is some. But the civil war is not in the party. The civil war is between the people of the country and the Washington establishment, members of both parties, and that\u2019s what\u2019s being demonstrated here in the latest Corker-Trump kerfuffle. It\u2019s a repetitive process, and it hasn\u2019t changed. Since Trump… Actually, you could go back to the campaign if you wanted to for the starting point. You could go back to election night and the transition, but it\u2019s more convenient to start with Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n

\"\"Since then we\u2019ve had this process where somebody — or a series of somebodies — inside Washington and the establishment, inside the Beltway has had it with Trump. They\u2019re over the top. There\u2019s a mind-numbing kerfuffle and an argument and so forth, and it just repeats itself. And every time it happens (and they\u2019re saying it now): “Trump\u2019s gone way overboard with the widow! Oh, my God, did you see that? Trump has really blown it. He\u2019s really insensitive. Now he\u2019s gone overboard with Corker.”<\/p>\n

But it never changes Trump\u2019s support within the Republican Party. None of it ever changes Trump\u2019s support in the Republican Party. However, Trump won not with just Republican votes. He needed some Democrats and independents, like Reagan did, and he got them. But he didn\u2019t get them because he convinced or I convinced or anybody else in media convinced those Democrats to vote against Democrats and vote for Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump got those Democrats on the basis of his agenda, and on the basis that there are a significant number of Democrats that are fed up with the Washington establishment, too, that you never hear reported and you never hear discussed because the Drive-Bys are not even able to comprehend the concept that people are upset with Washington. I mean, they know it, but they don\u2019t take it seriously. They are Washington, and what the people think doesn\u2019t matter to people inside the Beltway.<\/p>\n

The only time those people matter is on Election Day and maybe during the campaigns. But in terms of actually ascertaining what those people, what the American people really think and really want, that\u2019s not relevant. So the Drive-Bys have missed that enough leftists — well, I don\u2019t want to call them leftists. Enough Democrats, Reagan Democrats are also fed up with the ruling class that Trump\u2019s agenda appealed to them. And there hasn\u2019t been any erosion in this. I don\u2019t care… They\u2019re trying. They\u2019re doing everything they can to split Trump up from the people that voted for him.<\/p>\n

But it hasn\u2019t happened because they can\u2019t do it. They had nothing to do with assembling Trump\u2019s coalition, and, as such, there\u2019s nothing they can do to destroy it. Now, they don\u2019t know this. That\u2019s why they continue to try. But one of the things that\u2019s happening while they repeat this endless cycle, is they are distracted so much by trying to destroy Trump that they are not noticing all of the good things or the improving things that Trump is accomplishing. They\u2019re not interested. The media has been so distracted resisting Trump that they have let a lot of Trumpism slide by without noticing.<\/p>\n

The stock market seems to be noticing.<\/p>\n

It continues to break new records. Despite the media, despite the resistance, despite the Democrat Party\u2019s efforts to talk the economy down, it just keeps roaring along. Trump\u2019s policy on immigration continues to be implemented simply by virtue of enforcing the law. All these things are happening while the media is doing their best to destroy Trump. They\u2019re missing this — which, as I say, may not be a bad thing. There\u2019s a point to all this in terms of the cycle that we\u2019re living through and what it really means and what the real fight going on in America is really all about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019ve got people sending me emails. Actually, I\u2019ve got people sending me emails with lots of questions. “What do you mean, downplaying the Corker thing? That\u2019s a…” I\u2019m not downplaying it. The Corker thing, which we\u2019re gonna get to in due course. I mean, I\u2019ve got all the sound bites here; I\u2019m just getting revved and ready to roll them out. The Corker thing is very, very important.<\/p>\n

You know why? Strip everything of the substance, the content of this out. What does it show? It continues to show that Trump is not going to just sit and let some people trash all over him. He\u2019s not gonna permit it. He doesn\u2019t care who it is. It could be somebody that you would largely think is small fry and irrelevant or it could be a United States senator. It could be McCain; it could be Corker. He\u2019s not gonna sit there and take it, and I\u2019ll tell you what needs to happen. I have a story somewhere in the Stack.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s at EPA. Somebody at the EPA — not the secretary or the director. Somebody at the EPA is pushing back against a bunch of leftist drivel, and it\u2019s beautiful to see. Trump is indicating a behavior here that a lot of people say, “Oh, no.” My friends, for example, wish this stuff would stop. “I just want it to normalize.” No! This is what pushing back looks like. You know, if you elected Trump to fix some of this stuff — if you wanted an outsider to come in — this is what it\u2019s gonna look like. It isn\u2019t gonna be pretty. The other side\u2019s not gonna sit down and take it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just not. So Trump pushing back, I think, continues to offer a recipe, a solution for others. Can you imagine if there were more than just Trump pushing back against these people on the left? It would be a beautiful thing. Now, there\u2019s also some substantive matters in the Trump-Corker feud.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Trump, by the way. Trump had a Minority Enterprise Development Week awards event at the White House,<\/a> and he made the point here that I just made, that the Drive-Bys are ignoring all kinds of good news because they\u2019re so focused on this repetitive cycle of, “Somebody says something; somebody does something. Trump reacts to it. Now let\u2019s destroy Trump,” that they are ignoring other things, which may not be a bad deal. The Drive-Bys not trying to talk down the economy like they did try to talk down the Iraq war, it may ultimately be a good thing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Trump said…<\/p>\n