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RUSH: Gene in San Mateo, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime listener. I\u2019d like to see you tell us, on a regular basis, in non-emotional terms, the difference between a conservative and a populist. I think especially since Huckabee got elected in Iowa, I think it\u2019s important that people know not just what a populist is. I know that you say that he speaks to the individual and wants to solve the individual\u2019s problems and let \u2019em bring government to do that, but I think if you could characterize a populist in terms what they would do in government, what do they back, what do they want to happen, what would they oppose and so forth and how a populist can be so very different from a conservative. I think that would be very helpful, and over and over for people who only listen occasionally. There are a whole host of differences between the two.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s just — (laughing) This has been quite instructive today. Let me try to say it this way. Folks, I am not here to write campaign brochures for these candidates. I\u2019m not writing talking points for or against any of these candidates or voter guides. If you have listened to this show for any period of time, you know full well where I stand on the issues. You need to match \u2019em up with the candidate\u2019s view, candidate\u2019s record. There are times I feel compelled to go further. During those times, I will. But you don\u2019t want to turn this into a candidate forum. This is not what we do here. I\u2019m also not really crazy about turning the program into a dictionary. (laughing) But I will endeavor to explain populism when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Welcome back to Open Line Friday, and the dictionary portion of the program, ladies and gentlemen. The word populist. What is populism? What is a populist? The dictionary definition is often, as in the case of dictionary definitions today of liberal and conservative, it is not helpful. But the dictionary definition of populist is: ‘A member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people; a person who holds or who is concerned with the views of ordinary people.\u2019 The root here is… Well, there was a Populist Party. It was formed in 1891 and at the time the Populist Party ‘advocated the interests of labor and farmers, the free coinage of silver, and a graduated income tax along with government control of monopolies.\u2019 Now, the modern interpretation of populist, as I use it today, is not complimentary. A populist in this sense of ‘seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people,\u2019 this is what people who employ populism want the ordinary people to think: that they are ‘one of them\u2019; in fact, that they are from them; that they understand the ordinary, and that the ordinary are being shafted, and that the ordinary are being creamed, and the ordinary are being ignored. <\/p>\n

So the populist comes along and says, ‘Not only am I for you, I\u2019m of you, and I am going to go to Washington and I\u2019m going to make sure that we ordinary people kick butt and we\u2019re going to kick the butts of the elites and we\u2019re going to kick the butt of the establishment! We\u2019re going to do this and we\u2019re going to do that.\u2019 Most of them who do this are already from the establishment! They\u2019re elected governors. They\u2019re senators, or what have you. So it becomes a technique to relate to people on an emotional basis with a false promise, and that is that any one individual can solve all the problems of the ordinary. The ordinary would love their problems to be solved! I myself, not a member of the ordinary in my own definition, would love for my problems to be solved. But I\u2019ll tell you damn what: There is not a single politician on the face of the Earth that can solve one problem I\u2019ve got. Now, I have complaints as well as problems. I don\u2019t like high taxation. That is something an elected official can do something about, but with a realistic proposal. But I\u2019ve got problems with my cat. I have problems with doors that don\u2019t fit. I have problems with ants running around portions of the house, but I fix it! <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wait for some politician to say, ‘I, too, have ants! I have had ants. I\u2019ve had doors that don\u2019t fit, and it\u2019s the corporation that cuts the lumber and makes the wood that\u2019s screwing your wood. We\u2019re gonna get even with that big, evil timber industry for making you have to deal with a wood piece that doesn\u2019t fit, or we\u2019re going to get even with the carpenter who cut it or the contractor who made it!\u2019 or what have you. It is simply not possible, ladies and gentlemen, for a single individual to solve the problems of The Ordinary. First, can we define ‘ordinary\u2019? Is the ordinary average? What\u2019s the average? How many of you think of yourselves as ordinary? I hope not too many. I hope you all think of yourselves as special. All of us Americans are special. Not because of anything different about us, DNA or any of that. We\u2019re special because of our opportunity and because of our freedom. We\u2019re special because what those two things, opportunity and freedom, allow us to do with our lives! But there simply is no one man or woman who can appeal to everybody who\u2019s, quote, unquote, ‘ordinary\u2019 and solve their problems, but he can sure make \u2019em think so. For the ordinary to think that their problems can be solved, what must they do? They must turn over the solution of their problems to the person who seeks to fix them, and in the process they lose their freedom and they lose their individuality and all else that goes with that. So the populist is actually a big-government person in disguise. The populist is somebody who wants to grow government to take problem-solving and sadness and all these things, out of your daily life and replace them with whatever government can do so you will become dependent. John Edwards is a populist, for example. Mrs. Clinton is a populist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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