{"id":258700,"date":"2017-12-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=258700"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:12:32","slug":"the-conceit-and-insecurity-of-the-never-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/20\/the-conceit-and-insecurity-of-the-never-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conceit and Insecurity of the Never Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know, let me close the loop on something I was talking about earlier. I mentioned that I am constantly trying to study the people that surprise me. And some of the people &#8212; well, nothing surprises me, really, because I understand so much. But you get the drift. The Never Trumpers. The vitriol. These are conservatives and they\u2019ve been opposed to Trump from the get-go. And I\u2019ve thought that I understood why, and I have to a certain extent. It is largely establishment versus outsider, ruling class versus non-ruling class, country class.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PhonesWeGo-Never-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/>But it goes deeper than that. In fact, it\u2019s really psychosomatic. And I have discovered this by virtue of constant exploration of the writings and the chat transcripts as these people communicate with each other. Now, lately there is this blogger at the Washington Post named Jennifer Rubin, and she has been working under the guise of being a conservative, a blogger. But she\u2019s really not. She\u2019s no more conservative than David Brooks is, on balance.<\/p>\n<p>But when Trump came along, she abandoned all of her conservatism. It was the most amazing thing. She began writing in opposition to things that she had previously claimed to have supported. And it made no sense to me. Intellectually, it made no sense. If you believe what you believe, you believe what you believe. Why change? And the answer was because it was Trump who was articulating what she believed. And it embarrassed her.<\/p>\n<p>And so she had to change her beliefs or she gave the illusion of changing her beliefs simply because she couldn\u2019t stand the embarrassment of realizing that Trump agreed with her or that she agreed with Trump. So she, in order to maintain her purity with the establishment buddies, that she had to strike out immediately against Trump. Well, this has led her to write a bunch of things that are highly contradictory, make no sense, especially when measured against things she\u2019s written previously.<\/p>\n<p>And this was observed recently by a writer at National Review named Charles C. W. Cooke. Charles C. W. Cooke decided to write a piece exposing the inconsistencies and everything else of a recent blog post by Jennifer Rubin. The details of this are irrelevant for my point here. I mean, I don\u2019t mean to tell you what she wrote and what Cooke wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But Cooke did not get personal in his blog exposing her inconsistencies. He didn\u2019t get personal at all. Well, there were people who arose to defend Jennifer Rubin, and they set out to attack Cooke. Now, all these people claim to be conservatives. Every damn one of them claims to be conservative, and for the most part they\u2019re all Never Trumpers. They\u2019re locked in this internecine battle over who\u2019s pure and who isn\u2019t pure, and in this case, Charles C. W. Cooke was being savaged because it was said that he had personally attacked Rubin, when he hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>He simply exposed the utter folly of what she had written. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/454770\/impeachment-not-mulligan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Geraghty, who writes The Morning Jolt at National Review <\/a>characterized it quite well. I can\u2019t do any better than this. He writes, &#8220;A quick point on the allegedly &#8216;savagely personal\u2019 attack on Jen Rubin, which consisted mostly of quoting her views on the Paris Climate Accords, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, the Iran Deal, tax cuts, welfare, energy, and gun control and noticing that as soon as Trump signed on to Rubin\u2019s policy preferences, she suddenly became a critic of those same positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-258740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trump-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trump-002-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trump-002-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>This is my point. Jennifer Rubin\u2019s piece didn\u2019t make any sense because it was at odds with everything she had previously written on these subjects. But her post contradicted everything she had ever believed, or previous posts, only because she was aghast, she was appalled that everything she agreed with, so did Trump. She was embarrassed because she\u2019s a Never Trumper, Trump\u2019s a pig, Trump\u2019s unacceptable, Trump\u2019s unfit, Trump\u2019s whatever.<\/p>\n<p>And so she was embarrassed, and so she wrote a piece that contradicted everything she believed only because she was embarrassed Trump also believes it. And this is what passes for our intellectual wing. And then there\u2019s a follow-up to this. Another blogger wrote, quote &#8212; and this is the nub of it &#8212; &#8220;For some of us, it\u2019s not that we changed our position, it\u2019s that we don\u2019t want this administration trying to do important and complicated things it doesn\u2019t understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is it! That little two-line sentence explains 90% of the conservative intellectual Never Trumper movement. They simply cannot accept the notion that the things they believe in are in the hands of somebody so incompetent and rude and barbarian as Donald Trump. &#8220;We don\u2019t want this administration trying to do important, complicated things it doesn\u2019t understand.&#8221; In other words, &#8220;We\u2019re the smart people, we are the experts, and this guy Trump and his mad cabinet and his bunch of no competent fools, they got no business implementing what we believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, stop and think of that for a minute. In a fight for the soul of America, these people are willing to sell out their ideas and abandon the objective of advancing them simply because they think the guy implementing their ideas isn\u2019t fit to do so because he\u2019s a boob, he\u2019s a narcissist, he\u2019s a pig, he\u2019s a misogynist, whatever it is. And this is what passes for intellectual thought and application.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if this were the norm after every election. Imagine if it were permissible and laudable to oppose the implementation of the very things you believe because you believe whoever was elected isn\u2019t qualified or sophisticated enough to handle all of these very complicated things.<\/p>\n<p>Well, then there would be no reason for elections, because there wouldn\u2019t be anybody qualified enough to implement what you believe in. And if you can abandon your own principles simply \u2019cause you don\u2019t like the people implementing them, what does that say about the results of elections? And I don\u2019t see these people throwing their hat in the ring trying to get elected. I don\u2019t see them willing to head down the road that you have to head down to get elected in order to acquire the power and the opportunity to implement your ideas.<\/p>\n<p>You sit there from the sidelines and you judge who\u2019s fit and who\u2019s unfit and then if you decide somebody\u2019s unfit, and not because of policy, he\u2019s unfit because of his hair, he\u2019s unfit because of his tweets, he\u2019s unfit because he insults women, he\u2019s unfit because he does personal attacks on Twitter, he\u2019s unfit because he brags, he\u2019s unfit because he hosted Celebrity Apprentice, he\u2019s unfit because of Omarosa, he\u2019s unfit because we don\u2019t like Ivanka, he\u2019s unfit \u2019cause he shouldn\u2019t a won. It never ends.<\/p>\n<p>And at the end of it all you are superior, you\u2019re the expert, only you should have the right to determine who has the power to influence, implement your ideas. And yet you haven\u2019t taken a step yet to go down the road that would get you elected with the power to implement the agenda that you so deeply believe in, which obviously you don\u2019t deeply believe in it.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ve been able to keep up with this. If you haven\u2019t, I don\u2019t blame you. Angelo Codevilla wrote about this when he talked about the ruling class and their tight-knit associations. By the way, these are the same people &#8212; I\u2019ll never forget this. When I moved to New York &#8212; same kind of people &#8212; when I moved to New York in 1988, I had the idea, you know, I was gonna do a serious show. It was gonna be responsible. Meaning, I wasn\u2019t gonna say things just to make people mad. I wasn\u2019t gonna be outrageous just to be outrageous. I wasn\u2019t gonna lie. I wasn\u2019t gonna say things I didn\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n<p>My purpose was not to be controversial and stir people up. It was to be honest, but it was to stand out, it was gonna be a good show. I go to this cocktail party at Lew Lehrman\u2019s house, and a bunch of people who think and act like I\u2019ve just described, and they just love the Morton Downey Jr. show. Now, Morton Downey Jr.\u2019s spitting on his guests, he\u2019s blowing smoke in their faces, he\u2019s calling \u2019em names, he\u2019s kicking them off the show, he\u2019s throwing sawdust in their hair, and these pseudointellectuals, &#8220;Oh, man, are you gonna be like that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101217-Doctor-of-Democracy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101217-Doctor-of-Democracy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101217-Doctor-of-Democracy-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>If Downey had invited them on his show, they would have been there. They would have hired the fastest car in the world to get their ass there to be on the show. And yet here they are, &#8220;I simply cannot &#8212; it\u2019s not that we don\u2019t want this administration trying to do important, complicated things. We just don\u2019t think they\u2019re qualified. We don\u2019t think they understand. They\u2019re not sophisticated enough to be implemented. Yes, we\u2019re for tax cuts, and, yes, we\u2019re for moving the embassy, but they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re irresponsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is typical think tank thinking. So Trump\u2019s the guy that went out and did what you had to do to get elected. Trump\u2019s the guy that\u2019s getting beat up by everybody in the world just because he wakes up every day. He\u2019s not qualified, he\u2019s not sophisticated enough, he\u2019s not educated enough. He\u2019s not proper enough. &#8220;For some of us, it\u2019s not that we changed our position.&#8221; And Jennifer Rubin did. Jennifer Rubin denied believing in what she previously said she believed simply because Trump believes the same stuff. And she\u2019s so embarrassed that she has to abandon her beliefs in order to stay pure with the people who were Never Trumpers.<\/p>\n<p>What mental torture these people must put themselves through each day. It\u2019s obviously not enough to be guided and rooted in what you believe. All of this, all of this is based on what other people think of them. And what other people think of them apparently is superior and more important than the core principles that they claim to have.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Geraghty, National Review, writing about this, this is interesting, says, &#8220;Stuck with a president that they didn\u2019t vote for and cannot stand, a vocal chunk of Trump\u2019s critics insist he must be removed from office &#8212; until they debate whether Pence would be worse, revealing that the core of their objection is less that Trump is a uniquely unqualified and bad Republican than the fact that he\u2019s a Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second strike against &#8212; these people are Republicans and so is Trump, and that embarrasses \u2019em. How many people like that do you know, by the way, who are not intellectual think tank bloggers? Do you know Republicans who are embarrassed to be Republicans now because Trump is? I do. Do you know any, Snerdley? Yeah, a couple. Yeah, they\u2019re Never Trumper haters. It\u2019s irrational. This is how irrational it is. And it\u2019s deeply personal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-225958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Their hatred of Trump &#8212; Trump obviously threatens something, threatens the world that they\u2019ve created for themselves to live in, threatens the boundaries that grant them exclusivity or uniqueness or something. I mean, it\u2019s deep here. And then Geraghty says, &#8220;I might be more sympathetic to the arguments that Trump is a danger to our system of government if I hadn\u2019t lived through &#8216;Bushitler,\u2019 &#8216;Chimpy McHalliburton,\u2019 &#8216;Bush doesn\u2019t care about black people,\u2019 the awards for films depicting Bush\u2019s assassination, Howard Dean speculating that the Saudis warned Bush about 9\/11 &#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Geraghty is saying, where were all of you when the left was out destroying other Republicans that you didn\u2019t oppose like George W. Bush? Where were you speaking out then? And he\u2019s exactly right. In other words, these people will never criticize liberals and Democrats like they will people in their own party or movement!<\/p>\n<p>Where were you guys when Bush was Hitler and Bush lied, people died and all this other garbage that Bush didn\u2019t care about black people and the assassination movies and books that were written about Bush that we were encouraged to read, where were all of you savaging all the Obamaites and Clintonites who were saying all that stuff? Why weren\u2019t they objectionable to you?<\/p>\n<p>You would still go to cocktail parties with them. You would still have your intellectual exchanges and back-and-forth with them. But now that it\u2019s Trump and he agrees with you and he\u2019s implementing what you believe, you\u2019re beside yourself because you don\u2019t think he\u2019s qualified to be dealing with the things you care about. It\u2019s just amazing, folks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s flat-out amazing because at the heart of all this is the notion that Trump is so ignorant and he\u2019s so oblivious, he\u2019s so self-absorbed, he\u2019s so narcissistic, he\u2019s so piggish, that he\u2019s not even really president. He\u2019s not even entitled to the powers of the presidency. We reject the fact that Trump was elected. We simply don\u2019t accept it. He\u2019s not qualified. This are people who believe in the same things Trump believes in. And that\u2019s another thing that drives \u2019em nuts. There you have it my friends. That\u2019s a pretty good description of your average Never Trumper community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In a fight for the soul of America, these people are willing to sell out their ideas and abandon the objective of advancing them simply because they think the guy implementing their ideas isn&#039;t fit to do so because he&#039;s a boob, he&#039;s a narcissist, he&#039;s a pig, he&#039;s a misogynist, whatever it is. 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