{"id":257300,"date":"2017-12-08T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257300"},"modified":"2017-12-11T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:16:44","slug":"sad-david-brooks-neglects-to-blame-me-for-rot-of-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/08\/sad-david-brooks-neglects-to-blame-me-for-rot-of-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad! David Brooks Neglects to Blame Me for “Rot” of GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Something that\u2019s got me rather disappointed today. I must admit I\u2019m a bit down. There\u2019s a column by David Brooks in the New York Times today, and the title of the column is “The GOP Is Rotting.<\/a>” So I figured I had to play prominently in this because I\u2019ve always played prominently in David Brooks columns. I\u2019m always held up as one of the primary perpetrators in the dissolution of the party, the damage to the party. But I didn\u2019t make the cut in this column. Sarah Palin and Fox News are held out today as the primary perps destroying the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

\"\"Let me give you a flavor. Now, this is newsworthy, folks, because this is the guy the New York Times hires as their conservative columnist. “A lot of good, honorable Republicans used…” (interruption) What? (interruption) Lindsey Vonn? (interruption) Yeah. That\u2019s coming…<\/a> (interruption) Like I say, I can\u2019t do everything I\u2019m gonna do here in the first segment. Of course we\u2019re gonna get to Tiger Woods\u2019 ex-girlfriend. Absolutely. I think we now know why she and Tiger split up, by the way. If Lindsey Vonn and Tiger were still dating and Tiger goes off to play golf with Trump, what do you think\u2019s gonna happen when Tiger gets home? So it was gonna happen anyway.<\/p>\n

Okay, now, back to David Brooks. “A lot of good, honorable Republicans used to believe there was a safe middle ground. You didn\u2019t have to tie yourself hip to hip with Donald Trump, but you didn\u2019t have to go all the way to the other extreme and commit political suicide like the dissident Jeff Flake, either. You could sort of float along in the middle, and keep your head down until this whole Trump thing passed.” Now, this is a false construction. There isn\u2019t this grand middle where Republicans of no opinion are lurking, waiting for Trump to go away.<\/p>\n

Trump doesn\u2019t have polarization like that. There\u2019s nobody paying attention that is of that mind. Trump has what is called, in the media world, “perfect polarization.” What that means is, he\u2019s got pretty much an equal amount of hate versus an equal amount of love. If you\u2019re out of balance in polarization — if 80% of the people hate you and 20% love you — then you have a problem. Not personally, but if you\u2019re employed somewhere, for example, you\u2019re gonna have a little bit of a problem.<\/p>\n

But perfect polarization, Trump has it. In fact, I would actually say that there is a greater percentage of people in the country that love Trump than hate him. I think the idea that half the country hates Trump is overblown. But we\u2019ll go with it because that\u2019s the theme of the Drive-Bys. So David Brooks is saying here that there used to be a place for Never Trumpers to live where they didn\u2019t have to really sign on and love Trump, and they don\u2019t have to go to the extreme like Jeff Flake. I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

Every Never Trumper is a Jeff Flake. There aren\u2019t any mild-mannered Never Trumpers trying to straddle the middle. Part of the definition of being a Never Trumper is being vocal and passionate about it. But, anyway, Brooks believes that this mythical place after a peaceful middle once existed, but for some reason it has vanished because, he says, “Now it\u2019s clear that middle ground doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s because Donald Trump never stops asking.” Ready for this?<\/p>\n

\"\"“First, he asked the party to swallow the idea of a narcissistic sexual harasser and a routine liar as its party leader. Then he asked the party to accept his comprehensive ignorance and his politics of racial division.” In other words, Brooks is saying that Trump demanded that you ignore and maybe even accept what Brooks claims is Trump\u2019s life as a sexual harasser and routine liar, and then Trump forced you to accept the fact that he doesn\u2019t know diddly-squat about what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s completely politically ignorant and racist.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve had to swallow all of that in order to be a Trump supporter. Now, this is a “conservative” columnist. This guy [Trump], with comprehensive ignorance, is getting more done in the first year of his administration than anybody David Brooks has ever voted for. Donald Trump is getting more done in the first 10 months of his administration than anybody David Brooks ever wanted to be president, hands down. Yeah, and I\u2019m gonna throw Ronaldus Magnus in there. I\u2019m not saying Trump is a replacement for Ronaldus Magnus. Don\u2019t misunderstand here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m drawing the analogy for David. David Brooks was not a big Reaganite, either, at the time. But the idea that Trump\u2019s got this comprehensive ignorance and is a racist which makes it impossible for us sophisticated people to ever, ever support him? “At the same time,” writes Brooks, Trump “asks the party to become the party of Roy Moore, the party of bigotry, alleged sexual harassment and child assault. There is no end to what Trump will ask of his party. He is defined by shamelessness, and so there is no bottom. And apparently there is no end to what regular Republicans are willing to give him.<\/p>\n

“Trump may soon ask them to accept his firing of Robert Mueller, and yes, after some sighing, they will accept that, too.” You\u2019re right, Brooks. We can\u2019t wait for that one. It\u2019d be a great Christmas present. So, Brooks says, “That\u2019s the way these corrupt bargains always work. You think you\u2019re only giving your tormentor a little piece of yourself, but he keeps asking and asking, and before long he owns your entire soul.” Can you believe this? The torment these people go through? Look. Okay. You don\u2019t like Trump. Fine.<\/p>\n

But, man, Trump\u2019s not corrupting everything. Trump is cleaning things up! You know, Trump\u2019s draining the swamp. The broadcast engineer had a point for me today: “Trump is draining the swamp in ways we never dreamed it would happen.” Look at all the sexual harassers being outed. Look at all the elite, sophisticated, we-know-better-than-you-how-to-treat-women, we-know-better-than-you-how-to-govern people! All of these people are dropping like flies, and it\u2019s all because of Trump. If Hillary had won, none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n

\"\"Brooks is worried the Republican Party… I tell you, Brooks was taking the Republican Party into oblivion. Brooks and his buddies were gonna see to it the Republican Party was no different whatsoever from the Democrat Party, and what would have happened to it then? These guys are beside themselves because what Trump is doing is working. He is outsmarting them, and that\u2019s the biggest insult, because they think Trump… I mean, Brooks means this.<\/p>\n

He thinks that he\u2019s comprehensively ignorant. These people, these elites, they do think this. That\u2019s the thing that really gives them their self-esteem. That\u2019s what… They really think they are that much smarter than everybody else, and they just… They\u2019re having trouble dealing with being outsmarted here. They were outsmarted the day Trump won the election. They were outsmarted the day Trump survived the Access Hollywood. They were outsmarted the day Trump survived the Trump dossier.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Brooks continues here. “It\u2019s amazing that there haven\u2019t been more Republicans like Mitt Romney who have said: ‘Enough is enough! I can go no further!'” This is the money paragraph for Brooks: “The reason, I guess, is that the rot that has brought us to the brink of Senator Roy Moore began long ago. Starting with Sarah Palin and the spread of Fox News, the GOP traded an ethos of excellence for an ethos of hucksterism.” Now, usually I\u2019m in that paragraph. Usually I lead that paragraph.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been left out of this paragraph, and Fox News has been substituted. I\u2019m not aware — and it probably has happened. I\u2019m not aware that Brooks has blamed Fox News for what\u2019s gone wrong with the Republican Party. I mean, that\u2019s the conservative columnist in the New York Times?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This Tim Miller guy, the Jeb Bush campaign staffer? The Washington Post is reporting that he was planting or feeding anti-Roy Moore stories to the Washington Post. This guy, Tim Miller, is such a Never Trumper that he said… I guess it was back in 2016. I forget when he said it, but it was during the campaign. He said, “Hillary Clinton could beat Donald Trump even if she was in jail.” It was in April of 2016. “Hillary could beat…” This is a Jeb staffer! “Hillary Clinton could beat Trump even if she in jail. That\u2019s how unpopular Trump is.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Mr. Miller has obviously got some problems. But this is the kind of stacked deck that is out there. And even with this stacked deck, can you imagine how frustrated the swamp and its dwellers are? No, no, seriously. These are people who, in their minds, run the world, folks. They don\u2019t just run the country. I want to remind you of something McCain said back during… It was a Trump episode involving North Korea, some Trump foreign policy decision or statement, and McCain was beside himself.<\/p>\n

His point was… I\u2019m gonna have to paraphrase what it was. His point was, “Why in the world would we throw away the agenda for world leadership that we implemented all over the world after World War II?” Now, McCain was being entirely up-front honest about that, because that\u2019s exactly what the establishment has done. Their view of the United States and its place in the world is entirely different than yours and mine. Now, some of the people I\u2019m talking about literally believe we need to get rid of the whole idea of nation states and borders.<\/p>\n

Not all of them think that. But they do agree that the United States should have much more concern over the world than just itself. It\u2019s an argument Trump made recently in one of his speeches, the G20, whatever conference he attended. In Vietnam, I think, is where it was, where he was talking to all the other attendees. He said, “Look, I am gonna make America great again, and you should be making your countries great again. And when we\u2019re all working together to make our countries great again, it\u2019s all gonna work out well. The world is gonna be better than it\u2019s ever been.”<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s the antithesis of the way McCain was thinking. In their world, the United States, Marshall Plan, rebuilding Europe, NATO, Churchill\u2019s Iron Curtain, establishing the Cold War, all of these were constructs of the elite leadership of the United States in the postwar period. So their purview is not just the United States. Their area of concern, dominant influence is the world and primarily the free world, but never mind that. Their idea, their psychology is one of power and control, not just of the United States, but of the world.<\/p>\n

And in that worldview, the United States can clearly be guilty of things. The United States can be a problem when trying to accomplish their world vision. They view Trump and his nativism and make America great as taking the United States out of this, quote-unquote “worldwide leadership role.” The problem with that is that people who have been implementing this so-called worldwide leadership role have not been assuming leadership of the United States or primacy of the United States. They have been agreeing, for example, with the climate change advocates that we\u2019re to blame.<\/p>\n

\"\"They have been agreeing that we\u2019re to blame for poverty around the world. They\u2019ve been agreeing with the idea that we\u2019re trying to impose our way of life in too many places around the world where it isn\u2019t desired — and by that they mean freedom and democracy. So this cabal of elites either purposely or inadvertently began working at times against the national interests or interests of America as a nation state, subordinating it to the needs of the world. This, of course, is something Trump manifestly opposes and doesn\u2019t understand why American leadership should preside over the weakening of America just to make the world fair.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t understand it, and I agree with him. Well, these people really do think that they are special and smarter. Brooks epitomizes this. They really do, folks. They think they\u2019re born better. They have better DNA. They have better genealogical traces. They have a better genome. They really believe it. And they have thrown everything they have at Trump. They have conspired, and they have combined all of their massively large intellect, all of their intelligence — and they\u2019ve fired everything they can at the guy — and at the end of the day, they really haven\u2019t made a dent.<\/p>\n

Now, some of you may think that they have by slowing Trump down. I\u2019m not gonna deny that things could have been happening at a more rapid clip. But I still think it\u2019s almost unbelievable that Trump has been able to get anything done, given what has been arrayed against him. But yet he does. The economic news, the reversal of fortune to the advantage of the United States on borders and illegal immigration, the massive amount of regulations that have been canceled. And there\u2019s still massive amounts of regulations to go that need to be canceled.<\/p>\n

There are still a lot of things to do, but the momentum is still on Trump\u2019s side. And these people are literally beside themselves. Now this sexual harassment stuff\u2019s come along and taken them out. I mean, Trump has come along and who would have ever believed that this would be one of the ways that the swamp gets drained? But it is. Every day, if you pay attention, we\u2019re treated to a new round of just abject disbelief on the part of these people who cannot believe what\u2019s happening to them.<\/p>\n

You can put yourself in their shoes and imagine that you are smarter than anybody in your neighborhood. I mean, by a factor of five. It\u2019s not even close. You\u2019re wealthier. You know, play the game. Pretend. You\u2019re wealthier, you\u2019re smarter, and you\u2019ve got people the neighborhood trying to stop you from what you think would be improvements in the neighborhood, and you think you\u2019re gonna mow \u2019em down. You\u2019ve got the power, you\u2019ve got the money, you\u2019ve got the intellect. And everything you do, you end up as the Coyote and they are The Roadrunner.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how they find themselves most often with Trump. They can\u2019t believe it, and so they\u2019re in a continual state of disbelief, which causes them to become even more irrationally angry — and “irrationally” is the word.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what McCain said that I paraphrased. This was in Philadelphia at something called the World Leadership whatever it was. World Leadership… He was getting the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and this is what he said: “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of Earth\u2019 for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past…”<\/p>\n

\"\"So that was a direct swipe at Trump. But, folks, the meat of that quote is this: “”To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe…” See, the problem with that is our ideals are not being advanced around the globe anymore by McCain and his people. We did after World War II. We did take the reins, and we did organize and lead the world, and we did establish the idea that America was the last, best hope of earth.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve abandoned that, because the people in that leadership group — the elites, the swamps — have been replaced as they\u2019ve died or retired by either socialists or communists. We\u2019ve gotten to the point now where this precious leadership of 75 world McCain talks about blames the United States. Wherever you go, wherever there\u2019s a world body, the European Union, NATO, you name it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care where you go, the United States is always having fingers of blame pointed at it. Now, most of this is from a bunch of lesser nations simply trying to fleece us financially. But I don\u2019t care what the reason is, and we don\u2019t have people standing up for America. We have people joining this parade, “Yeah, we got some problem, we\u2019ve discriminated, yep, we\u2019ve been harassers, we\u2019ve been this or that.” Obama led the world in apologizing and blaming the U.S. And that\u2019s what Trump has gotten hold of and is correcting, and it\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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