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Gary Nicklaus, Jack\u2019s son, was part of the festivities. He\u2019s a great guy too. It was really a great day. I had a lot of people that came up and wanted to chat. And one of the things I\u2019m continually asked now is not if I am aware of some recent example of outrageous behavior by the left, but people are becoming increasingly concerned about: What does it mean? This is not the usual Democrat opposition.<\/p>\n
When the left can get away with, like this professor at Fresno State, get away with wishing more Bushes would die, and she\u2019s gonna end up not being punished by Fresno State. She\u2019s gonna totally get away with it. People have an awareness, a sensitivity that something\u2019s amiss here, something\u2019s awry, and it isn\u2019t good. And I was talking to people about it. The way I explain this to people is the analogy that I\u2019ve used about America during World War II and America today.<\/p>\n
We had divisions in World War II. We had disagreements. We had competing ideologies. We had competing political parties. But back then, losers lost, accommodated. They tried to figure out what they did that went wrong with the voters and tried to correct and become winners the next time around.<\/p>\n
There was an implicit, applied agreement that we were all in this together and that, regardless of differences, there was a singular thing that bound us together. And that is we\u2019re all Americans, and that counted for something. That meant a lot. America was the greatest place on earth. America is where everybody wanted to come to be the best they could be, to make the most of their lives. It still is. But it\u2019s changing.<\/p>\n
If something happened today akin to World War II, I don\u2019t know that we have anything that binds us together as a country anymore — and this is more than just my saying that we don\u2019t have any common ground to reach across the aisle and come to agreements with people.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really know what binds us together with the radical left, which is taking over the Democrat Party.\u00a0 They\u2019re not a fringe.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been fringe for most of the last 50 years, but they are now the mainstream of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what binds us together as Americans because the group of people I\u2019m talking about is not proud of being American. They\u2019re not proud of America.\u00a0 They think America is the problem in the world.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think of America as the solution.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think of America as having any kind of moral authority.\u00a0 We\u2019re not the good guys — and it\u2019s worse than that.\u00a0 We are, in many of their eyes, the bad guys.\u00a0 And this country must be drastically cut down, drastically remade, transformed, or what have you.<\/p>\n
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So you have this little story here about how the Republicans now are nervous — the Republicans are very worried — even after they won.\u00a0 Why this matters instead of the fact that it\u2019s happening is where we next need to take this, \u2019cause we can sit here and document all day long the examples of unfairness, of bias, of insanity, of lunacy on the left.\u00a0 But what does it actually mean?\u00a0 Another analogy.\u00a0 Thirty years ago when this program started and they started calling us Nazis — and they start calling us racists and sexists, and they\u2019d do this crazy stuff like Global Peace March — we laughed at \u2019em.<\/p>\n
We laughed at everything they were talking about because we said to ourselves, “There\u2019s no way anyone\u2019s gonna believe this.” Thirty years later, a lot of people have ended up believing what is genuine (to us) sanity.\u00a0 What we used to laugh at and (laughing) think, “Nobody could ever really believe that,” they do.\u00a0 They do, and now when they start labeling people as Nazis, they are dead serious, and you\u2019ll note that it is not categorically rejected.\u00a0 It is considered! People think about it.\u00a0 People begin to intellectually analyze the comparison.\u00a0 “Is there a grain of truth to it?” some people say.\u00a0 It\u2019s a slowly creeping, insidious sickness.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: But what I mean by this resistance business, I\u2019ve been sharing with you the fact that what I believe the Russia Trump collusion movement has really been about. I mean, the big, overall thing it\u2019s been about is getting rid of Trump, but how?\u00a0 I really believe that the effort of all of these different elements of the pursuit of Trump has been designed to drive Trump\u2019s approval numbers down to the thirties and hopefully the twenties.<\/p>\n
I think they have also wanted to drive Donald Trump insane.\u00a0 I think they want to make him sick.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking physically, mentally ill.\u00a0 I think they want to do it. They don\u2019t have any evidence whatsoever to get rid of him, but note how that\u2019s not stopping them.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got no evidence that Trump has broken any law.\u00a0 There is no evidence Trump colluded.\u00a0 That hasn\u2019t stopped them, has it?\u00a0 They just keep making it up.\u00a0 They keep applying the pressure — and when one vein bottoms out and fails, they open a new one.<\/p>\n
They do not accept being rejected. They do not accept that they are failing.\u00a0 They keep going on their objective of destroying Donald Trump.\u00a0 Now, what is this doing to the country as they do this?\u00a0 That\u2019s what we need to be discussing.\u00a0 Because the fact that they\u2019re doing it is obvious now, and noting how they\u2019re doing it and what they\u2019re doing each day, there\u2019s no news in that anymore.\u00a0 “What is causing?” is the focal point.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me go back to how the left is dealing with Trump.\u00a0 What really happened?\u00a0 What? Let\u2019s get really down to the basics.<\/p>\n
We had a presidential election that Trump won.\u00a0 It was a duly constituted and fair election.\u00a0 There has been no evidence — there\u2019s not a shred of evidence anywhere — that there was any kind of fraud or chicanery resulting in Trump\u2019s win or that explains Trump\u2019s win.\u00a0 Now, in the old days, when a party won the presidency, the out-of-power party accepted it, went along with it, and tried to make adjustments to win the next time.<\/p>\n
And they did their best to politically obstruct the winner and his party from advancing an agenda. But despite that, there was a comity or there was a unity about us all being Americans.\u00a0 There was an acknowledgment that there are winners and losers and that it can change with every election.\u00a0 And trying to win every election became the objective.\u00a0 Of course, you can\u2019t win them all.\u00a0 But some years ago, when the left began losing elections, they refused to accept it.\u00a0 Now, this is not a minor point.<\/p>\n
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The most recent example is Florida 2000 — the presidential election in 2000 and the Florida recount — where George Bush was named president after having duly won the election.\u00a0 All the Supreme Court did was shut down an ongoing, irrelevant count.\u00a0 The election had been certified.\u00a0 Everything in the Florida recount was an attempt to overthrow and reverse a duly constituted election — and then what happened after that?\u00a0 For the next eight years, the Democrat Party spent every waking hour trying to ruin George W. Bush, trying to paralyze his presidency, trying to drive his polling numbers down to the thirties.<\/p>\n
They knew they would never be able to impeach Bush, but they wanted to render his presidency absolutely paralyzed.\u00a0 They made no bones about who they were going to destroy or try to destroy when they were doing it.\u00a0 All this time, there\u2019s not a single defense of Bush from his own team, from his own administration.\u00a0 The left got away with every lie, every stinking mischaracterization and lie about Bush, to the point that by the end of Bush\u2019s term, the U.S. military was nothing more than a bunch of terrorists who were terrorizing Iraqi women and children at night in their homes.<\/p>\n
There were elected Democrats who were postulating this from the floor of the House and the floor of the Senate. We had Dick Durbin comparing uniformed military personnel to Pol Pot, a mass murderer in Cambodia. And it stuck. He was ridiculed for it here, but not by anybody on the left, and not by anybody in the media.<\/p>\n
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This refusal — and when I say refusal to accept defeat, we have in this country an honor system. Take it to the world of sports. Football game, baseball game, take your pick. Let\u2019s take everything happening in politics and move it to, say, it\u2019s baseball season now so let\u2019s just do baseball. After a nine-inning game, the people, the team that lost refuses to accept that the game is over, refuses to accept that the other team won and embarks on a mission to destroy the entire game of baseball.<\/p>\n
Not just the game that they lost, but the entire institution of the game by calling into question everybody\u2019s integrity on the winning side. And by doing everything they can to erase the victors and to drum up public support for the idea that the game of baseball is dishonest, it\u2019s unfair, because the wrong team lost. How long would it be put up with? It wouldn\u2019t even get off the ground. Something like that would not even get off the ground.<\/p>\n
Yet in American politics, it\u2019s not only off the ground, it is gaining ground left and right. Donald Trump wins an election. From the very night of his election victory, the people who lost this election have refused to obey common decency, they have refused to obey the law. The law itself is now unequal. On the Trump side, people are being accused of doing things they didn\u2019t do and are being rendered broke, penniless, defending themselves, while people on the Hillary side actually did break the law, actually did collude, actually did all of these things which are illegal, and they\u2019re not being held accountable for a single bit of it.<\/p>\n
Sorry, folks. We cannot have a country where some people are held accountable and other people aren\u2019t. And particularly when people who are thought in their own minds to be at the pinnacle of power, when they\u2019re above the law, when they\u2019re unaccountable and the Drive-By Media fully supports that premise, sorry, folks, where are we headed? It\u2019s not enough to note that it is happening. It is happening. What does it all mean?<\/p>\n
They thought they would get rid of Trump in six months. They haven\u2019t. They wanted to drive Trump\u2019s approval number down to 20. That would be the best way to get rid of him. There isn\u2019t any evidence that there was election fraud. There isn\u2019t any evidence that Trump cheated. All there is is Trump and the fact that they hate him, and they\u2019re angry that they lost. And now these baseless allegations that he\u2019s unsophisticated, unfit, and by virtue, so are all of you who voted for him. It has been a ceaseless, a never-ending personal political assassination that is underway to this very day.<\/p>\n
And when one element of it fails — I think we have to assume now that the Mueller element has failed — after a year and a half, there is no evidence of Russian collusion, there is no evidence that Trump did anything illegal or cheated in any way to win the election. Despite there being no evidence, what\u2019s the left doing? Mounting new charges out of thin air, indicting new people, bringing new people that had nothing to do with anything in and putting them under the microscope to destroy them.<\/p>\n
They call this the resistance, but this isn\u2019t resistance. We\u2019re so far beyond resistance now. These people are doing much more than resisting. They are literally turning the law upside down. They are ignoring the law when it applies to them. They are accusing people who have not broken the law of having broken the law and forcing those people to either cop pleas or defend themselves, and, in the process, go broke and lose their homes, destroy their families. All of this on no evidence that anything of the original charge that the election was tampered with and is therefore illegitimate, there\u2019s no evidence for it.<\/p>\n
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It continues unabated. And as these people fail in every element that they try to get rid of Trump, what then happens? Trump becomes even worse. Trump is Hitler. Trump is no different than Mao Tse-tung. Trump is hideous. They keep throwing out these inane, insane, crazy allegations in their unstopping attempt, their never-ending attempt to create anti-Trump public opinion which will then facilitate them getting what they want, and that is him thrown out of office.<\/p>\n
Part of it it\u2019s personal with Trump, but another element of it has nothing to do with Trump. It\u2019s just the fact that they lost. And that\u2019s totally unacceptable. And what does that mean? Where does that take us? When the losers in a constitutional republic and in a, quote, unquote, democracy when the losers refuse to acknowledge it and then start tearing down as much of the system as they can in anger and frustration for the express purpose of reinstalling themselves in power, what is this doing to the country?<\/p>\n
No good, is what it\u2019s doing. It becomes crazier, it gets more insane each and every day. Where this is headed, folks, resistance isn\u2019t gonna be enough. Because resistance is not gonna get them what they want. And they\u2019re not gonna stop. They don\u2019t accept defeat. And when I say don\u2019t accept defeat, I don\u2019t mean in an intellectual sense, refusing to say, “Oops, we lost.” It\u2019s worse than that. It is that defeat is not possible. Defeat is intolerable. And not from the Winston Churchill, “Never give up, keep trying harder,” kind of thing. It\u2019s from an entitlement standpoint, from an angry entitlement standpoint.<\/p>\n
None of this is any good. It\u2019s gonna lead to more unrest. It\u2019s gonna lead to more anger. And in the process, these people are tearing the country apart, which, by the way, is also an objective.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Great American institutions which used to be trusted implicitly — with just a few occasional doubts — have been weaponized.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been weaponized in the effort to destroy Donald Trump.\u00a0 At the root of all of this, at the root of every effort to get rid of Donald Trump is something called “hate.” Hatred.\u00a0 Now, we can get into the reasons why if you want. “Why are they so mad that Trump won?”\u00a0 Well, Trump wasn\u2019t supposed to win. It wasn\u2019t possible for Trump to win, in these people\u2019s world.\u00a0 He\u2019s just a total, full-fledged reprobate.<\/p>\n
But he did win, and every hard-core belief that they trusted was thrown upside down.\u00a0 If somebody like Trump can\u2019t win, they look at themselves as having really screwed up, messed up. This has to be fixed, in their minds.\u00a0 But what is propelling them? Their propulsion is pure, raw, undiluted hate.\u00a0 And it\u2019s infecting as much of America as they can infect.\u00a0 Look, we talk about late-night comedy.\u00a0 There is no late-night comedy anymore.\u00a0 It\u2019s late-night hate — and it is late-night hate all aimed at Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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The NFL.\u00a0 The National Football League used to exist as an apolitical oasis.\u00a0 Whatever politics there was with the NFL was assumed, but it was never in our faces.\u00a0 Individual players might endorse a candidate here or there, but the league at large… Ah, it was just the NFL. It was football.\u00a0 It was, as much of sports is, an escape.\u00a0 The NFL has now become one of many outposts in America where Trump hate is the order of the day — and there\u2019s no end to it.<\/p>\n
Every one of these corruptions… Late-night comedy has been corrupted.\u00a0 Robert De Niro is going insane.\u00a0 Robert De Niro is losing his mind over Donald Trump — literally losing his mind right in front of us — as are so many famous big names on the left.\u00a0 They are publicly going insane over Donald Trump.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing rational about it.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a problem with it. \u00a0They\u2019re not succeeding.\u00a0 As they fail, as every effort that they have mounted to get rid of Trump fails… I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not doing any damage.\u00a0 Quite the opposite of that.<\/p>\n
But in their minds, nothing so far has worked to get rid of Donald Trump.\u00a0 Look at what they\u2019re corrupting in the process.\u00a0 How do these things become uncorrupted, folks?\u00a0 How does late-night comedy go back to what it once was?\u00a0 How does it once again become late-night comedy?\u00a0 How does the NFL shed what it has become?\u00a0 The Drive-By Media wants you to think the NFL and Colin Kaepernick in the same mental picture. — and when you see that picture, you\u2019re supposed to side with Kaepernick and hate the NFL.<\/p>\n
The NFL, to avoid this, is doing everything they can to agree with Kaepernick — except hire him and bring him back, which further angers the left.\u00a0 Where does this stuff get fixed?\u00a0 Where does it reverse itself?\u00a0 Where do we go back to, quote-unquote, “normal” from all this.\u00a0 Because as the left mounts all of this intense, focused hatred, the objective of which is to either make Donald Trump physically or mentally ill or to force him to resign or to drive every supporter away from him, drive public opinion down to 20%… They got a long way to go.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s approval numbers are steady and climbing, which means they\u2019re only going to intensify this.\u00a0 And as each stage or each effort that they engage in — each corruption — that is designed to get rid of Trump fails, they move on and corrupt something else. They move on and hate on something else or somebody else, and they then start focusing on people close to or nearby Trump in his orbit and try to destroy and corrupt and take them down.<\/p>\n
Now, again, it isn\u2019t new.\u00a0 It\u2019s just been part of a trend. I\u2019ve noticed it for 30 years. It\u2019s been a very slowly evolving trend.\u00a0 You know, I\u2019ve come under my share of attacks from these people, too, as they have sought similar… Well, they\u2019ve sought the same objective of me as they are now seeking with Trump.\u00a0 They failed.\u00a0 They move on to others.\u00a0 They\u2019ll come back to me at some point.\u00a0 It never stops.\u00a0 But the point is that with each failed effort… Like the Mueller special counsel effort has failed.<\/p>\n
They had thrown all their eggs in that basket, but we know it\u2019s failed.\u00a0 Democrats are starting to tell us this by suggesting that, when they begin to campaign in earnest for the midterm elections in 2018, “Don\u2019t talk about the investigation! Don\u2019t mention impeachment,” because it didn\u2019t work. But the fact that it didn\u2019t work does not inform them.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t educate them.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t advise them.\u00a0 The fact that it didn\u2019t work only angers them more.\u00a0 It only makes them hate more.<\/p>\n
So they move on to the next effort, which was Manafort and Rick Gates.\u00a0 It was Flynn.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ve moved on to Michael Cohen and anybody in his orb.\u00a0 And all of it means they\u2019ve got nothing.\u00a0 On the terms of their original allegations that there is a lot of corruption and a lot of cheating and a lot of collusion — Trump-Russia, the election — there isn\u2019t a shred of evidence after nearly a year and a half.\u00a0 That does not stop them.\u00a0 This is a crucial point, folks, in understanding who they are.<\/p>\n
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They are not pursuing truth at each of these intervals or with each of these stratagems to get rid of Trump.\u00a0 In other words, the Trump-Russia collusion investigation was never about Trump colluding with Russia.\u00a0 It was about getting rid of Donald Trump.\u00a0 It was about the combination of all efforts: The corruption of the FBI, the corruption of the DOJ, the corruption of the intelligence agencies, the corruption of John Brennan and the CIA.\u00a0 All of this was designed to force Trump out of office.<\/p>\n
Not because he colluded, but for all the other reasons. The mounting pressure, the fact that nobody likes him, the fact that the media joins in and makes it look like the whole country hate him. All of this was supposed to be a mind trip on Trump, and he was supposed to cave inside of six months.\u00a0 But at no juncture are they pursuing actual truth.\u00a0 There is no collusion.\u00a0 There is no pee tape.\u00a0 But you know what is next on that regard?\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell you what I think\u2019s coming.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re gonna find one.<\/p>\n
I think they\u2019re gonna find a pee tape!\u00a0 Somebody\u2019s gonna come forward and say they got one.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna manufacture one.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna go into the studio and they\u2019re gonna manufacture something that looks like it\u2019s a secret video taken from a hotel room camera, and it\u2019s gonna show some women urinating on a bed.\u00a0 This is my point.\u00a0 When each of these elements fail, they continue to ratchet it up.<\/p>\n
And failure is met with more failure — and at every stage of this, something is being ruined and destroyed.\u00a0 Something in our culture, something in our politics, something traceable to our founding.\u00a0 How does all of this get fixed?\u00a0 Or does it?\u00a0 Do these people keep on and keep on and keep on and eventually win?\u00a0 Or do they continue to be thwarted in their objective here of getting rid of Trump?<\/p>\n
Do they continue to be thwarted and lose and resort to more extreme measures, such as when does the resistance actually become violent? When does the resistance actually begin to look like Ferguson or Baltimore? Some of you are saying, “Rush, they\u2019ve already done that. Remember the women\u2019s march with the vagina hats after the election?” Yeah, that was a precursor. But that was born of the same hatred, the same disbelief, the same shock that Trump won, could not be, they didn\u2019t get their way.<\/p>\n
People call it a childlike tantrum. It might have been childlike in terms of maturity, but it was by design, and it happened exactly as the planners and the participants it wanted to happen. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re making fools of themselves. They don\u2019t think they are ineffective. They just haven\u2019t found the silver bullet yet.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like believers in communism. Despite the fact it\u2019s never worked, believers in socialism, despite the fact there\u2019s no evidence that it ever creates anything like a utopia, they\u2019re still searching for it. They\u2019re still demanding it. They still believe it\u2019s out there if only the right people and the right amount of money are combined at the same time.<\/p>\n
So where does all this lead, and how do all of these things that they\u2019re destroying, how do they get fixed? And if this resistance actually becomes violent, what form does that take? Will these people mount an actual revolution that takes place other than on the airwaves via panel discussion on cable TV and the occasional out of control protest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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