{"id":253750,"date":"2017-11-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=253750"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:49:49","slug":"why-i-knew-there-would-be-no-unity-after-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/06\/why-i-knew-there-would-be-no-unity-after-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Knew There Would Be No Unity After the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We\u2019ll start in Coronado, California, with Smokey. Welcome, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us as you are caller number one today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thank you, Rush. Rush, I called before. I was sort of an anniversary caller. I called the day after the election, 2016<\/a>, one of the happiest days of my life. Interestingly your take the day after the election was different than what I thought. And what I wanted to do, two things, I wanted to kind of just remind you what you said a year ago and sort of see what you think might change if anything.<\/p>\n

\"\"You were very adamant that the left, the media, the whole machine would not accept Donald Trump. They would do everything in their power to delegitimize him. They would fight him at every turn and would never accept him as a duly elected president, and I have to say, your prediction — I listened to the podcast last week mainly for entertainment purposes and kind of to improve my mood and so forth, and I just remember the cautious tone you took, very cautious tone, and, I have to say, you were extremely accurate on how things turned out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What was your reaction when you first heard me make that observation? Were you sad? Were you happy? Were you surprised? What were you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I think, Rush, going back, I mean, I was so happy. I was suffering from a little bit of extra fine bourbon at the time —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right, and my comments kind of threw cold water on it all so you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, exactly. It was such a big day, it was like, God, this is so great. We\u2019ll get tax cuts. We\u2019ve got a majority in the Senate, they can\u2019t stop us. You know, it\u2019s almost like this is a done deal. And, you know, you basically told us it\u2019s not gonna be so easy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me take the occasion of your call to say something here. None of this that\u2019s happening, the church shooting, none of this stuff, surprises me. And, look, I\u2019ll admit that you get up and you hear about the news or you get home and you hear about the news, and I don\u2019t care how much you\u2019re prepared for, it angers and saddens and all of that.<\/p>\n

But I have to tell you, folks, in a general sense, none of this surprises me. He\u2019s right. I did remind everybody that winning this election was just winning one election, and it didn\u2019t mean that everything was now fixed and this election did not put everything back on the right path. It was patently obvious to me — this is based not on specific news events or people\u2019s reactions after the election, but rather on my encyclopedic, encompassing knowledge of the American left, the Democrat Party, and the Washington establishment and my understanding of it — these are truly elites. They\u2019re elites in their own minds, which is important to understand.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s not just that they are elites as seen by other people. In their own minds, they are elites. In their own minds they are better people, better human beings than you and I are. In their own minds, they\u2019re the only ones entitled, qualified, what have you, to have the reins of power. They are the only people capable. And what happened on Election Day last year was never supposed to happen, never. They didn\u2019t even conceive of it. They were in such denial.<\/p>\n

Now, some of them are now saying that they realized Hillary was running a bad campaign, that she was a bad candidate, but in their world there was no way a majority of Americans were gonna look past all of the baggage that Donald Trump owned and had brought into the campaign himself. And, to this day, they remain shocked and stunned and disoriented and angry, and they are focused only on one thing, and, to them, Donald Trump is an infestation of vermin, of rats, insects, termites, whatever, and they\u2019ve got to get rid of him. And they\u2019re not gonna stop until they do.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t, for example, if you get termites in your house, you don\u2019t just let nature take its course. You call the exterminator, and if that exterminator doesn\u2019t work, you hire another one. You don\u2019t tear down your house. Trump is representative of an infestation of vermin. I\u2019ve had more discussions with people who are sad that they thought by now that all the anger would have been exhausted and people would finally be willing to work together. But it\u2019s like Clarence Thomas asked, what binds us together anymore? There isn\u2019t any one thing such as patriotism that holds us together, like it has in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I did remind everybody that winning this election was just winning one election, and it didn't mean that everything was now fixed and this election did not put everything back on the right path. It was patently obvious to me — this is based not on specific news events or people's reactions after the election, but rather on my encyclopedic, encompassing knowledge of the American left, the Democrat Party, and the Washington establishment and my understanding of it — these are truly elites. 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