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RUSH: Yeah, I understand. So what were you afraid of? You said you were holding your nose. What were you holding your nose about? Trump\u2019s personality? His tweets? What was it?<\/p>\nRUSH: Matt in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Hi. I\u2019ve been yelling at you to “stick to the issues” full time for eight years now, and I\u2019m calling now embarrassed to say that 13 months ago I only plugged my nose and voted for Donald Trump. He was not my candidate of choice. He was simply the best of two options. I\u2019m calling to apologize through your show and as directly as I can to him and say, “I\u2019m sorry, Mr. President, I could have been a better supporter last year and in the future I will be.” I am a huge supporter. Love the guy. Love everything he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What were you holding your nose about 13 months ago? What\u2019s changed?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t think anything has changed. I\u2019d like to talk about the future and not where I stood in the past, really. He has exceeded my expectation in every way possible. If you take just this tax bill, for example, it\u2019s not —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I understand. So what were you afraid of? You said you were holding your nose. What were you holding your nose about? Trump\u2019s personality? His tweets? What was it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I was afraid that he was a New York Democrat running as a Republican.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh!<\/p>\n
CALLER: I thought things might be different, but —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, I get —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, you told me that I was wrong, and I\u2019ve learned that you can only tell me exactly what\u2019s gonna happen and the rest is on me. That was my fault. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, apology accepted. But I\u2019m not aware of anything you need to apologize to us for. But we\u2019ll happily accept it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m apologizing to Mr. Trump and saying that I could have been better in the past and I will be in the future. Let\u2019s all get to the Trump Train \u2019cause it is rolling.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll pass that on to him next to I see him.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Very good!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me ask you: Do you consider yourself a Republican, a conservative, a populist? What do you consider yourself to be?<\/p>\n
CALLER: A conservative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, and that\u2019s why you were concerned.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Conservative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You thought Trump was a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing, New York Democrat, which would essentially make him a liberal?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And you couple that with the New York social values that you thought he represented and it was kind of hard for you to sign on to it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s true, absolutely. But again, you know, I\u2019d like to talk about where I am now, not where I was.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because it\u2019s a much better place here and I look forward to more.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I fully agree with that, and I fully understand it. I\u2019m not a dweller of the past except insofar as we can learn from it, and learning where you are now requires us to know where you were in the past. I by no means want to dwell on it. And the future of course is where it\u2019s at. I\u2019m glad you called and apology, though unnecessary here, is happily accepted. There\u2019s one other thing that I think needs to be blown to smithereens. This idea that Trump has been a populist and that his supporters are nothing more than a bunch of populists.<\/p>\n
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By the way, that\u2019s been said very derogatorily. Populism is supposedly very, very bad. Intellectual, dyed-in-the-wool conservatives despise populism and populists, and this is what everybody… Not everybody. This is what many of the conservative, intellectual Never Trumpers considered Trump to be, a populist. They\u2019ve been writing derisively of Trump the populist and Trump\u2019s populist voters and wondering what Trump\u2019s populist agenda is gonna mean to Steve Bannon, and Trump is not a populist.<\/p>\n
Trump may not even know it, but what Trump is… Simply look at his agenda and look at what\u2019s been proposed, look at what has been passed and is about to be implemented. You\u2019ve got people saying that this… Bill Bennett on Fox a couple days ago said this a more conservative first year than we had with Ronaldus Magnus. We have more conservative judicial nominees, a more conservative tax cut, a more conservative administration top to bottom than we even had in the first year of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the gold standard. So where do you get this populism? Now, here comes this tax cut. And in the tax cut is a pretty significant corporate tax rate reduction, 35 to 21%. Populists would not cut corporate taxes. Populists — if they\u2019re true blue, dyed-in-the-wool populists — do not like corporations. Corporations and Big Business are part of the trade deal problem. Corporations gave us NAFTA! Corporations gave us the Transpacific “Parkway” or whatever it was.<\/p>\n
Corporations are considered by populists almost as bad as liberals look at them. Early on, a bunch of conservative Never Trumpers started assigning populism, the label, to define Donald Trump. And he never was. I always said Trump is not ideological but his instincts are way more conservative than anybody could believe, and maybe he ideologically understands. Although I think he\u2019s caught up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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