{"id":280138,"date":"2018-07-24T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280138"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:12:54","slug":"my-brilliance-worms-its-way-into-uk-news-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/24\/my-brilliance-worms-its-way-into-uk-news-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brilliance Worms Its Way Into U.K. News Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: As I said earlier, happy to see my analysis and acknowledged brilliance finding its way, worming its way into Drive-By Media coverage in the U.K. I have a story here from the U.K. Guardian. Here\u2019s the headline: “What Liberals (Still) Get Wrong About Trump\u2019s Support,<\/a>” and the subheadline is: “After each outrage, progressives believe supporters will drain away [from Trump]. On the contrary: he is giving them what they want.”<\/p>\n

I could have written the story.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You\u2019ve heard me explain it, and you already know it.<\/p>\n

You know why you\u2019re hanging in with Trump. You know why your support for Trump increases with each faux attack and phony controversy, manufactured crisis. I\u2019ve made the point, these people don\u2019t. They\u2019re not making a single effort to find out who you are or any other Trump supporter is, making no effort to understand; they just want to hold you in contempt and impugn you. This guy, Henry Olsen — “a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center” over there — has delved into it. I want to share some of this with you just to show you how the tentacles here are spreading.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have been pointing this out for I don\u2019t know how long and now finally it shows up in the U.K. Now, let me give you some pull quotes from the piece. Pull quote number 1. “To quote Ronald Reagan: ‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they\u2019re ignorant; it\u2019s just that they know so much that isn\u2019t so.\u2019 They presume that because Trump is so unconventional in style, his coalition must be equally unconventional.<\/p>\n

“But it\u2019s not. The data clearly shows that Trump\u2019s political coalition is pretty much the traditional Republican coalition. And the often virulent behavior of anti-Trump partisans has made partisan Republicans especially unwilling to abandon their leader even when he stumbles.”<\/p>\n

Bingo! It is the traditional Republican coalition that has even been abandoned by the Republican Party in Washington. That\u2019s what these people are all missing! They believe that Trump voters are a bunch of people that have never voted, or haven\u2019t voted in a long time. They think they\u2019re not very well educated. They\u2019re mostly people that can\u2019t speak English very well. They\u2019re hicks. They have guns. Their women never leave the kitchen and their kids never leave the house. They\u2019re constantly fed up because they\u2019re losing money, they\u2019re losing their jobs, they\u2019re unable to modernize, and their last-gasp effort to stand up for themselves is to vote for this bigot. That\u2019s who they think the Trump coalition is.<\/p>\n

I mean, there are stories today in the U.S. media about how this coalition cannot hold together, that it\u2019s very temporary, and it\u2019s totally oriented based on Trump. And it can\u2019t and it won\u2019t survive Trump. They\u2019ve got it totally backwards. Trump came after all of this. Trump is a beneficiary of all of this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to be critical of Trump at all, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just trying to tell you it\u2019s the same thing with this program. This program didn\u2019t create a bunch of people who had never thought this way before. You are always there. You just never had any place in the media that reflected what you think. Well, it\u2019s the same thing with Trump. The Republican Party was not providing the Republican base with what it was promising during campaigns and what the Republican base is oriented toward, and Trump is.<\/p>\n

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And so the Democrats, the left, has got a totally skewed idea of who the Trump coalition is and how temporary it is. And the one thing that they think is that most Trump supporters are not very bright, and they think you\u2019re super patriots. I mean, unreasonable super patriots.<\/p>\n

They think you\u2019re “my country right or wrong — and really wrong, my country.” They think you\u2019ll back your country when it\u2019s racist, when it\u2019s sexist, when it\u2019s homophobic, when it\u2019s anti-people of color. That\u2019s who they think you are. As such, because they think that you\u2019re stupid, they think that you\u2019ll be able to be separated from Trump. They don\u2019t have the slightest idea what it is. They don\u2019t have the slightest idea how what they say and what they do solidifies Trump\u2019s support. Now, this guy in the U.K. starts to figure it out.<\/p>\n

Next pull quote: “Nor are Trump\u2019s voters united by racism and sexism, as many on the left presume. Analysis by the … Cato Institute\u2019s Emily Ekins found that Trump\u2019s general election support broke into five groups. Only one, the American Preservationists, contained a large number of voters who could be said to be generally hostile to racial and ethnic minorities per se. They were outnumbered by another group, the Free Marketeers, whose attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities were as or more tolerant than the attitudes of Hillary Clinton supporters.”<\/p>\n

A big key.<\/p>\n

Trump supporters are far more tolerant than leftist Democrats are. The genuine intolerance in our culture, in fact, resides on the left, in the Democrat Party, in its enclaves like universities. Trump supporters are far more accepting, they are far more tolerant, and they\u2019re far more open-minded. But the Democrats and the media think the exact opposite. They\u2019re closed-minded, dumb, unsophisticated, uneducated, unaware. Life experiences are very slim and narrow.<\/p>\n

You basically segregate yourselves away from people that don\u2019t think like you and don\u2019t think like. That\u2019s what they think you are, and they think Trump has found a way to appeal to you. They couldn\u2019t be more wrong, and they are never gonna be persuaded that they are wrong. “That doesn\u2019t mean Trump backers are blind. Polls show an unusually high share of Republicans do not say they ‘strongly\u2019 approve of his performance; they are well aware of his many foibles and flaws.”<\/p>\n

In other words, they\u2019re not mind-numbed robots. They are thinking and thoughtful people, but they are united more by their opposition to liberalism and the media. They are repulsed — you are repulsed — by the kinds of things being said and being done to Trump and it solidifies his support and grows it. As we pointed out yesterday and happened all last week, Trump\u2019s numbers edged up even in that faux crisis of the Helsinki summit.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, there\u2019s one more aspect of this story in the U.K. Guardian that I want to highlight to you. Never mentioned is that this is exactly what happened in the primary. The truth is there are no candidates on either side anymore. And stop and think. Every candidate… Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Pick your candidate. Every one of them is gonna look dull and boring when compared to Trump.<\/p>\n

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Every one of them. Just like during the Republican primary, it looked like a bunch of Ken doll TV news anchors against a guy who is living life and wasn\u2019t afraid to be who he was. So what is it gonna come town to? It\u2019s gonna come down to policies. Trump got elected on policy, and the left cannot admit this! They refused to admit that Trump was elected on policy. A pull quote from the story: “The 2016 exit poll showed that Trump won because he decisively beat Clinton among the 18% of Americans who did not like either candidate.<\/p>\n

“These voters tended to be suburban, college-educated, Republican-leaning men. These ‘reluctant Trump voters\u2019 were undecided until the very end of the race, but ultimately decided that the devil whose policies they liked was better than the devil whose policies they didn\u2019t.” So let me translate. You had 18%, according to exit polls — we\u2019ll live with it \u2019cause that\u2019s all we got. You had 18% of people that voted didn\u2019t like either Trump or Hillary.<\/p>\n

They wanted to vote, though. What was it that determined their vote? Policies. The 18% that didn\u2019t like either candidate, decided on policies. You know the fact of the matter is that most elections do come down to policy. Except when the left loses, it never is chalked up to policy. When the left loses, there\u2019s some other explanation. Last time it was the Russians meddling, screwing with the election outcome, unfairly treating Mrs. Clinton or what have you.<\/p>\n

Other times, it\u2019s the Supreme Court with their bogus Florida recount in 2000. In 2004, when John Kerry lost, “Yeah, I just needed 50,000 more votes in Ohio and then I would have won.” Somehow, somebody screwed him out of 50,000 votes in Ohio. They never lose because of policy, and yet they always lose because of policy. Obama, on the other hand, did not win because of policy. Obama couldn\u2019t be honest about what he was gonna do.<\/p>\n

Obama won for purely surface reasons. A, people were fed up and hated the Republicans \u2019cause of Bush, and then Obama was the first African-American so they can vote for the African-American, hopefully end racism and show that they\u2019re not racist. They didn\u2019t vote for Obama\u2019s policies. Democrats never win on policy. They can\u2019t. Big lesson there.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, by the way, in light of what you just heard, the Democrats stepped right into it again. “House Democrats Pass Resolution Denouncing Trump in Wake of Helsinki.” The Republicans loved him in Helsinki. “Denver Post Runs Letter to Editor Suggesting Trump Should Be Executed.<\/a>” “Two-Thirds of Democrats Say ‘Trump Treason\u2019 Charge Is Sincere.<\/a>” They keep stepping in it, thinking that they are someday gonna separate you from your support for Trump. They\u2019re not even getting close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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