RUSH: I knew this was gonna happen, and I\u2019m glad it did. I got some emails during the break. “Don\u2019t you think you\u2019re not being honest with yourself and with us? Don\u2019t you think Trump\u2019s in big trouble? Don\u2019t you think this election really means that? You can\u2019t look at out over America and think everything\u2019s rosy.” Did I say everything\u2019s rosy? All I said was there is no anti-Trump wave that you can peg to the Virginia or New Jersey elections. There is no anti-Trump wave. It\u2019s totally manufactured, folks.<\/p>\n
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Don\u2019t fall prey to it. I know how easy it is to fall prey to it. I\u2019m asking you to (chuckles) resist it. You know what really ticks me off? I went through these numbers. Let me go through this again. This anti-Trump wave is a fabricated lie. Here are the numbers again. Donald Trump won 30 states; Hillary Clinton won 20. Donald Trump did not win Virginia. So there was no “loss” in Virginia on Tuesday. In other words, we didn\u2019t lose something we had.<\/p>\n
We lost the election, but we didn\u2019t lose something we had. Here are Democrat losses since 2010 under Barack Obama: 12 governorships. That number doesn\u2019t change with Northam winning in Virginia. The Democrats are still down 12 governorships. Sixty-two seats in the House of Representatives the Democrats lost, nine Senate seats, 958 state legislators. And if you start talking about mayors and town councils? If you keep going down the ballot, you\u2019ll get to a number between 1,300 and 1,400 that the Democrats have lost.<\/p>\n
What ticks me off is that we have been defeating the left at the ballot box for 10 years now, folks. Obama aside. I mean, the president\u2019s machine and so forth, we didn\u2019t have any hope. We didn\u2019t have… The two candidates we ran against Obama never had a prayer, McCain and Romney. But outside of that, we have been defeating the left at the ballot box, which means Republicans have benefited from their voters putting them in power. And what do we have to show for it? We\u2019re exhausted!<\/p>\n
After 10 years of winning, how many of you still feel like you\u2019re on the losing side because of the way your elected representatives act? That\u2019s what ticks me off. We\u2019re exhausted. Ten years, no results! Now, the Senate Republicans are torpedoing tax reform. The stock market\u2019s down 200. “Yeah, we\u2019re gonna delay these corporate tax cuts until 2019. We don\u2019t want to phase those in.” This is pure Trump sabotage what\u2019s going on — and, if it\u2019s Trump sabotage, it\u2019s you being sabotaged, you who voted for him. That\u2019s what ticks me off.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no reason Democrats ought to be up and dancing. They didn\u2019t win anything! They stopped the bleeding is what happened in Virginia. That\u2019s the honest way to look at it. Now, look. I know full well how easy it is get caught up in the media narrative, because it\u2019s oppressive. It doesn\u2019t stop. The media doesn\u2019t show you anything positive. Look, Trump\u2019s trip in China, Trump\u2019s trip to Asia is a grand-slam home run. They\u2019re not televising it. There\u2019s not a single network that televised Trump\u2019s arrival ceremony in China.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a single network that televised all of the ChiCom children waving the American flags. There are more ChiCom children waving the American flag than we have NFL players waving the American flag. ChiCom kids are waving the American flag. They\u2019re happy to see President Trump. President Trump, as I said yesterday, is representing the United States from a position of strength. The world needs it, the world celebrates it, the world wants it, and Trump is providing it.<\/p>\n
Now, they\u2019re trying to sabotage Trump by saying, “He\u2019s doing a 180. Now all of a sudden the ChiComs are his best friends. Remember during the campaign he accused them of cheating and this and that and the other thing,” and you got Bill Clinton out there. Bill Clinton is now saying that Donald Trump is on way to creating a dictatorship through the lies that he is telling. Bill Clinton, of all people, talking about a dictatorship! That\u2019s beyond the pale. But that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. These people know they\u2019re losing, folks.<\/p>\n
This is the thing about them. They know they\u2019re losing and their media knows, in terms of these elections. But they know how to act the exact opposite way. Their media analysts on TV and their anchors and their hosts know how to act like they\u2019re the majority, that they\u2019re the cool kids and that they\u2019re this and that. But they are the ones losing. Can we go back the audio sound bites, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Audio Sound Bites, November 8th of 2016.<\/p>\n
NBC special coverage of the election — this is before Trump was declared the winner — Chuck Todd was speaking with James Carville about Trump being on the way to winning the presidential elections. It was late at night and they finally figured out what has happened. Because, remember, at 9 o\u2019clock on election night, they still thought (and so the Republicans) that Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. So this is later than that. Chuck Todd says, “You know, James, there will be a lot of Democrats who are gonna complain about WikiLeaks. They will complain about James Comey, and it had some impact. But on the other hand, Trump\u2019s basic message never changed.”<\/p>\n
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CARVILLE: You gotta realize, the Democratic Party has the least amount of power that you can imagine in this democracy. The Republicans have like 30 state legislatures, governors. We\u2019re gonna lose the federal courts, the Senate, the House, the presidency. I mean, it is a(n) utter disaster if you\u2019re a Democrat in terms of having any political power in the country right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: November 8th, one year ago, almost to the day, James Carville — and he was right. That night after the election results were in, based on number of seats, the Democrat Party, you had to go back to 1920 in order to find a Democrat Party with less power than they have now, just in terms of elected seats that they hold. And Carville was talking about what it all meant. (impression) “The federal courts… The courts, the Senate, the House, the presidency! I mean, it\u2019s a utter disaster.”<\/p>\n
Just one year ago. Now, let me ask I something: What\u2019s changed? Honestly, folks, don\u2019t tell me attitudes, don\u2019t team people hate Trump. Trump hatred\u2019s been out there from June of 2015. What has changed? Nothing. Republicans have won every special election. They didn\u2019t win Virginia. I think there was a lot of people hoping that the trend would continue, but it didn\u2019t. But there isn\u2019t any change of any substance. What change there is is an attitudinal change created by media narratives that is designed to portray Republican Party as where the Democrats are. And that\u2019s the rub.<\/p>\n
We have been defeating the left for 10 years at the ballot box. We have been swamping \u2019em. They\u2019re down 1,400 or 1,300 seats, and what is there to show for it? As I say, now the Senate is trying to torpedo the tax reform plan coming out of the House — and by the way, there are some conservatives who are not really impressed with the House tax bill anyway in terms of its conservative bona fides. We had a caller in the last hour who has a theory. She\u2019s a political junkie, and she was reminding everybody how red Virginia used to be.<\/p>\n
It used to be a dyed-in-the-wool Republican state — and then all of a sudden, it started getting blue. It started getting blue around Charlottesville, University of Virginia, and it started getting blue in the D.C. suburbs and the northern part of the state. She made the observation that it\u2019s not people in Virginia whose minds changed. It is newly arrived people from other parts of the country, predominantly liberal parts of the country — the north and Northeast — and they are fleeing liberalism.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re fleeing high taxes! They\u2019re fleeing high property taxes. They\u2019re fleeing traffic. They\u2019re fleeing municipal, absolute discord. They\u2019re fleeing bad weather. They\u2019re fleeing freezing cold “in the midst of global warming) and when the arrive in these new states they immediately start polluting these states with their madcap liberalism, and the Republicans have ignored this.<\/p>\n
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The Republicans have not even had a plan to deal with what this really — this is an infiltration of liberals from the north moving south for whatever reasons, and they\u2019re turning these states to which they\u2019re moving simply by virtue of numbers into liberal enclaves. Certainly parts of the states are becoming liberal enclaves. Virginia and North Carolina are two of the noteworthy states where this is happening. They were governed by Republicans who made creating jobs and low-tax environments their identities. But nobody\u2019s talking to these people but the leftist media.<\/p>\n
So what we have is a number of factors here that, combined with media narratives, make it look to you, if you pay attention to the news, like the Republicans are losing left and right or, forget that, like Trump is losing left and right and that Trump\u2019s voters are abandoning him, and there isn\u2019t any evidence of that whatsoever. You think the Democrats would have this little to show for 10 years of such dramatic election wins? I hardly think so.<\/p>\n
And of course what it boils down to is establishment Republicans versus every other Republican and conservatives throughout the country. There\u2019s a big disconnect and there\u2019s not much in common. And so we win, and you know the drill; Republicans win by virtue of campaigning as conservatives or candidates that are gonna implement things their voters want, then they win and get there, and all of that stops.<\/p>\n
And, if anything happens, little bits and pieces of the Democrat agenda anything are what get implemented, or elements of the Republican conservative agenda get chipped away, ignored, and never entered into the arena, even after all these massive wins. This is what ticks me off.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We head to Philadelphia. Lisa, great to have you with us today on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush! I\u2019ve been a longtime listener since 1994. I am a little nervous right now. But I wanted to let you know that I am a naturalized citizen. I became a citizen, joined the military. I\u2019m a deplorable that lives in Pennsylvania and cried the night that Trump won.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, welcome. That\u2019s fabulous. You\u2019ve been listening since 1994, did you say?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Since 1994, yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I thank you very much for that. That\u2019s awesome, Lisa. Where are you from originally?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Panama.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Panama!<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Excellent. Well, we\u2019re glad you\u2019re here. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I just wanted to tell you, in case I lose you I\u2019m driving to work right now, but I wanted to let you know that I\u2019m really nervous that I just heard the Senate\u2019s version of the tax cut, and it\u2019s worse than the House. And I truly believe that they\u2019re going to sabotage and make Trump fail, the establishment Republicans and the rest of them, because he\u2019s a threat to the country the way they want it to be. It\u2019s like, for instance, I come from Panama and, you know, for some reason folks who move here tend to want to recreate what they left behind.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I know what you mean. Rather than becoming Americans, they want to Balkanize, and that is one of our current immigration problems, if I understand what you\u2019re talking about. Have I got that right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s just depressing. I\u2019ve even seen the change in the past 30 years. I\u2019ve seen it change since we moved here, and it\u2019s really unfortunate. It\u2019s actually very depressing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look. I don\u2019t want to be overly simplistic about it, but you can thank the Democrat Party for that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The Democrat Party does not want assimilation with a great American culture \u2019cause they don\u2019t think that it is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: America is the greatest place in the world, and it\u2019s disappearing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. America\u2019s an imperialistic, egotistical, racist and sexist slave state.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, gosh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anyway, about your point, look, the Senate Republicans are indeed — look, the Senate very seldom just rubber stamps what comes over from the House, so some of this is not unusual. But they are taking elements of this and saying, “We\u2019re not gonna do this right off the bat. This is suicidal. We\u2019re gonna delay that corporate tax. People don\u2019t want corporations to get tax cuts. We\u2019re gonna delay that for four years.”<\/p>\n
Her theory is that all of this is being done to sabotage the whole bill so that it doesn\u2019t pass, in order to depress support for Trump or to give people less — I think what their thinking is, if I may be so bold, let\u2019s accept your premise, as a hypothetical.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say you\u2019re right, Lisa, that the Republicans in the Senate — let\u2019s just stick with them for now — are purposely trying to see to it this bill doesn\u2019t pass because they want to send a message to Trump voters that whatever Trump wants, we\u2019re gonna make sure he doesn\u2019t get. You\u2019re gonna have to realize that you\u2019re not gonna get what you want as long as you stick with Trump because we\u2019re gonna make sure it doesn\u2019t happen. That\u2019s what they want the reaction to be.<\/p>\n
They want you to think that Trump is the problem. They want you to think that they would do all of this if it just weren\u2019t for Trump, but Trump is so dangerous and Trump is a pig and Trump is an outsider. They want you to abandon Trump. They are miscalculating who is going to suffer or who will pay the price for this.<\/p>\n
Now, this leads me in — I\u2019ve not got enough time to develop this. Lisa, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. I got an interesting email during the last break, and in the next segment I want to run it by you. You don\u2019t need to call me about it; I just want you to listen to what this email says. I\u2019m gonna paraphrase it \u2019cause it\u2019s kind of convoluted but I know what they\u2019re saying. And see how many of you think there\u2019s something to this.<\/p>\n
Essentially it is, “Rush, if Trump were truly a good president, then he would have by now converted some of these people that hate him, and there wouldn\u2019t be so much divide or partisanship. And so in that sense, Rush, maybe Trump isn\u2019t the guy,” is essentially what this email says. There\u2019s a little bit more in it, but that ear-splitting tone was coming. I had to get what I could in before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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