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<\/p>\nRUSH: I had this yesterday, and I wanted to briefly mention it here and then a couple of other really fascinating little interesting ditties.<\/p>\n
Gallup has just released survey data showing that the percentage of Americans who are satisfied with how things are going has tied for the highest level since 2005. CNN ran a poll 10 or so days ago; got similar results. In the CNN survey, 57% of the people answered yes when asked if they think things are going well in the U.S. In the CNN poll, it\u2019s the highest since 2007. And I made the point that this is despite — this is despite — the daily, 365, never-ending effort to destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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The 24\/7, never-ending bombardment of fake news — and still! Here\u2019s another thing: The Democrat advantage in the generic ballot is now down to 3%. And you know what people are chalking that up to? I think this is a crock. But this is how these people think. They think “Avenutti” is causing people to turn against the Democrats. You think that\u2019s…? You really think that people taking a survey…? Okay. Let\u2019s game this out, as they say, and let\u2019s say it\u2019s ten days ago.<\/p>\n
Avenatti\u2019s all over TV saying what he\u2019s saying, doing what he\u2019s doing, making fool of himself, coming off as a braggart, obnoxious boob. At the same time, people are planning how they\u2019re gonna vote in November when asked — and a bunch of \u2019em say they\u2019re gonna vote Democrat. Then after a day of watching “Avenutti,” the pollster comes along and says, “You know what? I watched this guy ‘Avenutti\u2019 on TV; this guy\u2019s making me nervous about Democrats. I\u2019m not gonna vote Democrat.”<\/p>\n
Do you think people really…? The Democrats want to come up with some explanation for why they continue to lose their advantage in the generic ballot surveys, and they dealt… They will never admit the problem is them. I\u2019ll tell you what their problem is. And in fact it\u2019s a problem for all of us. The problem is — and this is three days in a row that I have seen stories that allude to this. The problem is that the Democrat Party is being California-ized. The Democrat Party is becoming unabashedly, no attempt to disguise it whatsoever, full-throated socialist.<\/p>\n
There is no Democrat Party, or there soon will not be a Democrat Party of your youth, and certainly not the Democrat Party of your parents. It is trending full-throttle socialism, and it doesn\u2019t stop at socialism. Communism never stops at socialism, or socialism doesn\u2019t stop until it gets to communism, and that\u2019s where they are headed. The Democrat Party is being taken over by pure, undiluted, raw socialists.<\/p>\n
They are winning primaries. They are determining the Democrat Party agenda. They have taken over California. California has already gone in that direction. California\u2019s lost. There is no Democrat Party of old in California. It\u2019s full-fledged radical and on the border of insane socialism. There isn\u2019t, my friends… There is not an example in human history where socialism has fulfilled its promise. Not even close. There\u2019s not one.<\/p>\n
The most recent example of socialism gone amuck? Well, you could pick California. You could pick Venezuela. You could say pick any city in America that\u2019s totally run unchecked by liberals. Now, that\u2019s a problem for all of us, because what if the party keeps expanding on that basis? Right now, it is assumed that 40% of the Democrat Party is full-throated socialist and growing, and many people are attributing that to Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n
That, for whatever reason, Sanders has started attracting people, young people, and then the numbers have grown. And part of it is the Democrats really don\u2019t like Hillary. A lot of Democrats just can\u2019t stand Hillary. So Bernie was the natural choice to turn to if you didn\u2019t like Hillary.<\/p>\n
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But if the Democrat Party\u2019s able to convert the percentage of its people that we would still consider normal, if there are any left, if the Democrat Party becomes 80, 90% socialist, then we all have a problem. ‘Cause they\u2019re gonna win some elections. I mean, they\u2019re not gonna be shut out consistently. They\u2019re gonna win some. And at some point they\u2019re gonna win the White House back. It\u2019s a major, major concern.<\/p>\n
But right now the Democrats find it their greatest concern, and they see their generic ballot advantage dwindling away, and so they\u2019re trying to blame things — like they\u2019re blaming Avenatti, Stormy Daniels\u2019 lawyer. They\u2019re blaming him. When the answer is — it\u2019s multifaceted, but it\u2019s not Avenatti. Avenatti\u2019s not why they\u2019re losing. I would contend that they never really had the advantage.<\/p>\n
I would contend that back in January and December when the generic ballot news was first reported, I don\u2019t believe they ever had a 15-point advantage. And if they did, it didn\u2019t matter because the election was still a year away, but I don\u2019t think they ever really did. I think it\u2019s just now normalizing and getting to the point where it\u2019s accurate, getting close to that point. But the Democrats think they had a big advantage and they\u2019re losing it. They\u2019re coming up with all these cockamamie reasons to explain it, and they\u2019re not getting close.<\/p>\n
And you couple this with the Gallup news that details and agrees with the CNN survey ten days ago that a greater share of people in America satisfied with how things are going, that does not bode well for Democrats at all.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me try something out as a theory. Do you think — by the way, have you noticed how clever Trump is? Trump is manipulating Democrats into defending MS-13. Is this not the most incredible thing? Nancy Pelosi out there talking about, “Well, these people have humanity.” Even the babe that runs Planned Parenthood is out defending the humanity of MS-13 while wiping out humanity in the womb at Planned Parenthood! Which Trump is on the verge of defunding in terms of federal tax dollars. Doesn\u2019t matter. A bunch of leftists will make up the difference. But at least your tax dollars won\u2019t go for it.<\/p>\n
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But for criminality\u2019s sake. You got Pelosi, all these other Democrats defending MS-13. They are defending Kim Jong-un. They\u2019re hoping he does not get rid of nukes so as to embarrass Trump. The media is inexorably identified with the Democrat Party now. Let there be no mistake about that. I mean, Trump is pulling these people\u2019s chains, and he is forcing them, in their hatred for him, to defend anything he opposes or attacks.<\/p>\n
He goes after a criminal gang, an illegal immigrant criminal gang, MS-13. The Democrats defend them. “Hey, they have their humanity too. They\u2019re human beings.” Ha. So are babies in the womb. But we\u2019re not supposed to go there.<\/p>\n
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