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<\/p>\nRUSH: Robert in Chattanooga, Tennessee, next as we hit the phones, the EIB Network. Hi, Robert, thank you for calling.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n
CALLER: First-time caller. Retired Department of Defense public affairs specialist and journalist. I\u2019ve got a question I think, you know, you haven\u2019t tossed around yet.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Go ahead.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Do you think that being president has made Donald Trump a better man?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Define “better man” for me.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, seriously, when you think about it, he is doing things — he\u2019s thinking about this stuff. People take it that he is a little scattered, but I don\u2019t see it. I see him really beginning to dial in his presidency. And he\u2019s got a brand. He walked into that role with a brand that he is not going to hurt. So he\u2019s gradually becoming this well-oiled machine.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m imagining that, take your pick Drive-By Media journalist is listening to you, thinking you are off your rocker, because they think Trump is descending further into the gutter. They think Trump is losing his mind, that his administration is in full chaos and half his administration is about ready to resign. That Putin\u2019s on the verge of taking over the United States without firing a shot, and there you are saying Trump is in a groove. Hang on, Robert. Don\u2019t hang up.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: All right. Here we have a little bit more time here with Robert. He\u2019s in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I really wasn\u2019t sure if you were being facetious or serious in the limited amount of time we had. Are you serious that you think Trump is becoming a better man, that his administration is running better and has more purpose?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t say his administration is necessarily running better because he\u2019s got a couple of hurdles that he has to deal with there. But, you know, as much as they throw at him, he does not flinch, and I think that is key to knowing what his character is like. Because, yeah, you can say he\u2019s done this wrong or he\u2019s done that wrong, but he doesn\u2019t seem to let it bother him.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, that is an interesting observation. I\u2019ve made it myself, and I think the way to look at this — I\u2019m glad you brought this up, too. Because I don\u2019t think very many people — even those with experience in the public eye — could withstand for a week what Trump has put up with for years now. I think most would have caved to it by now. They would have sued for peace. They would have done anything they could to stop this onslaught of character assassination, lies, destruction. This Russia collusion investigation alone would drive most people nuts. I\u2019m talking about in politics, in the public eye. They\u2019d be whining, moaning and crying years ago about it. Trump just keeps going, as you say.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know. I would have packed my bags and run a long time ago if it were me, and I just think his constitution must be incredible. Either that or he\u2019s just so brilliant that most people don\u2019t even see it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You want to hear something truthful about Trump? This will confound you even more, because you would have to conclude, would you not…? Let me not lead you. Let me ask you: Do you think somebody under assault like Trump can only get through this and remain focused and have a smile on his face every day if he doesn\u2019t care about the criticism, if he doesn\u2019t care what people say about him?<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re exactly right. He\u2019s powering through it, to be honest with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but the fact is, the Donald Trump I know craves being popular. The Donald Trump I knew before he ran for office, that\u2019s what he wanted. That\u2019s why he wanted to run The Apprentice, be on TV. He wanted to be in the gossip pages. He loved life. He wanted to be seen at the center of it, and whatever they said about him was fine — if he was a playboy, if he was this or that, a great businessman — but he wanted to be popular. He wanted to be liked. And he\u2019s obviously not with a significant portion of the country. And he\u2019s been able to subordinate that desire to keep plugging away. Why would a guy like this even run for president at age 70?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because he thrives in chaos.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that may be true, but that\u2019s not why he ran for office.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, it\u2019s not because he… Well, he\u2019s like a lot of us. We sit back and we\u2019re frustrated with the way the political system has worked in the past. We want to see it fixed. We want to see justice done correctly. It hasn\u2019t been done, and he is the guy that\u2019s jumped in there and echoed what everybody has been thinking but had no power to do.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Part of that\u2019s, I think, right on. I think as I look back on it and remember conversations I\u2019ve had with him over the years, I think he\u2019s been thinking about doing this for a long time. I mean, maybe as many as five, 10 years before he did it. Go back and look at Trump leading the movement on Obama wasn\u2019t born in America, the fake birth certificate, and any number of things. And then he flirted with what Ross Perot\u2019s party, the Reform Party back then and almost ran for office. So he\u2019s been thinking about doing this for the longest time. But back ten years ago, 15 years ago — before there was Obama and before there was this active movement to transform America — it was just an old-fashioned mess.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, mark my words. In the long run, at the tail end of his presidency or in the next year or two, the country is going to begin to collectively love him because of what he is accomplishing, and they\u2019re gonna… Whether they agree with him politically or not, they\u2019re gonna have to say, “You know what? He\u2019s doing the job and he\u2019s doing it well.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, now, Robert, you keep… I have to ask you: Do you really believe what you just said?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That after a while the country is going to collectively love him?<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re gonna have to admit it. They may eat a little crow in the process, but they\u2019re gonna have to admit that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (sigh) Uh… Whew. That, I don\u2019t see. I don\u2019t see the American left ever getting to the point where they say, “You know what? We were wrong about this guy. He\u2019s doing some great stuff. I hate him personally, the guy infuriates me, but I have to admit the guy keeps plugging away.” I think they\u2019re so poisoned with hatred and they\u2019re so partisan — and they don\u2019t want what Trump is doing! One of the real dangers here is that we are a country that is not bound together by anything in common anymore.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a single thing that binds the left and the right together. It used to be we were all Americans. That was the unifying characteristic — and that was the thing that, in tough times, made us all realize we\u2019re on the same team. We don\u2019t have that anymore. There is no single thing that you can say binds the radical left of this country with the rest of it. They don\u2019t like it, they are infuriated by it, and they\u2019re hell-bent on transforming it or erasing it and rebuilding it, or what have you.<\/p>\n
And their attitude of Trump, their opinion of Trump is visceral hatred. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I think it\u2019d be a great thing if such a thing were possible, and I think Trump believed that it is, or did at one point. I think he\u2019d probably agree with your sentiment that in time something like that could happen. I don\u2019t think it can. I think these people are gonna have to be constantly, every day focused on and defeated if they are to be stopped from ever becoming the majority. I don\u2019t see them… Let\u2019s put it this way. Do you think the deep state…? Forget deep state. Do you think the Washington establishment will ever just get tired and stand down?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Probably not, but the challenge is this. Ask your audience this collectively. Was life so much better under Barack Obama as compared to now? I\u2019m talking about the quality of life.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No! No! But that\u2019s not what it\u2019s about to these people. It\u2019s about who provides the quality of life, and it\u2019s about how you define quality of life. To them, quality of life is a radical leftist in charge punishing everybody that they disagree with. That\u2019s quality of life. Quality of life is not how much they earn, quality of life is not how much freedom they have, \u2019cause they\u2019re miserable every day anyway. Quality of life for them does not include the way you and I define happiness. Their happiness is predicated on how much pain and suffering they can engender in us or put on us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Then those individuals ought to beware of what they wish for because if they get it, they may regret it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If that were the case, then they would have realized the folly of what they think years ago, \u2019cause it hasn\u2019t worked anywhere. What they believe and what they want, what they espouse is guaranteed to fail. It has throughout human history. And what they want, what they say they want, inevitably and inexorably leads to dictatorship.<\/p>\n
It leads to tyrants. And they are the ones that empower them. They are the ones that enable tyrants. They are hell-bent on you agreeing with them. And if you don\u2019t, they are fully in favor of a massively powerful central government making you agree with them and forcing you to love them and their perversions and their oddities and their screwball beliefs.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re not interested in peaceful to existence. They want you snuffed out if you don\u2019t agree. That\u2019s why they support the concept of mean-spirited radical tyrants in dealing with people and things they don\u2019t like. And so I don\u2019t think that they are constitutional — I\u2019m talking about their personal constitution, their makeup — I don\u2019t think they are capable of liking or respecting not just Donald Trump, but me, of anybody on the right, anybody that disagrees with them. And I\u2019m talking specifically here about radical leftists, average, ordinary Americans. I\u2019m not talking about the establishment now.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking about the people that are the snowflakes on college campus and the people running sanctuary cities and the people trying to keep the border open and the people trying to blow up Christianity and the people trying to blow up every vestige, every tradition and institution that defines this country\u2019s greatness, people trying to blow that up are the people I\u2019m talking about. They\u2019re never gonna realize they were wrong. They\u2019re never gonna, “Oh, my gosh, did we misjudge this.” They\u2019re never gonna, at all, ever.<\/p>\n
Their minds are not open enough to even get close to occupying that kind of position. That\u2019s why when you asked me do I think if Trump is becoming a better man, it depends on how you define it. But under your terms, the ability to stay focused on the agenda when everybody seemingly around him is trying to sabotage him and engineer his failure is something that, I don\u2019t know anybody else who not only could put up with this and remain who they are, I don\u2019t know anybody who\u2019d want to. I really don\u2019t. I appreciate the call, Robert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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