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RUSH: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dave, you\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you with us. How are you doing? Dave, are you there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I can hear you now. We\u2019re having trouble getting volumes turned up here for the past two days, but, nevertheless, great to have you. What\u2019s up? You are Dave from Harrisburg, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Just double-checking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Yeah, the media wants you to believe that the Republican Party has all this fracture now between the Never Trumpers and the Trump supporters. It\u2019s the Democrat Party that has the fracture right now. They\u2019re trying to not let the public know that, but the Democrat Party, the far left is trying to take over that party, and the more they do that, the more you\u2019re gonna see the Brexit and Walk Away movement, people like that. I feel that Trump\u2019s gonna win again in 2020.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, it\u2019s interesting you say this. I was gonna ask you and then you got to the answer. I was gonna just ask you to describe for me how you think the Democrat Party is actually the party that\u2019s fracturing. You think it\u2019s the new, young Millennial, far-left extremists at war with the war horse old-time Democrats?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Exactly. I think it will be interesting to see what happens if Pelosi is gonna be the Speaker. That\u2019ll be a telltale sign, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I have made the prediction that these young whippersnappers are not gonna sit here and listen to these old seasoned veterans. They don\u2019t listen to old seasoned veterans anywhere else in their life, why should they listen to \u2019em in the House of Representatives? This is a young generation that really thinks anybody that\u2019s five years or more older than they are doesn\u2019t know jack. They don\u2019t know anything about tech. They don\u2019t know anything about freedom. They don\u2019t know anything about treating people who are different from us the same.<\/p>\n

They really think people — it\u2019s not much older, five years or more, if you\u2019re five years or more older than the current crop of young Millennials, you may as well not exist. And I think a lot of these young whippersnappers, not just in the House, but I think it\u2019s all throughout the country, all throughout our culture. And if they are politically inclined — they don\u2019t have to have run for office and been elected. They just are simple voters.<\/p>\n

Look. I\u2019ve got reasons for thinking this. I study it, folks. You may think I read these tech blogs just \u2019cause I like iPhones and stuff. And I do, that\u2019s true. But it\u2019s also a study of a particular segment of the American population, young Millennials. And I\u2019m telling you, it is fascinating in one sense, because the cocksure arrogance of people in their twenties and thirties and the things that they think they know that they don\u2019t know, it is striking to me.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have enough time here to give you any real world examples. Much of it involves climate change, the examples I would give you, things they think are gospel and true that just aren\u2019t. But it\u2019s not just climate change. It\u2019s a lot of political and cultural issues. But it doesn\u2019t matter because if you don\u2019t think what they think, then you don\u2019t count, you\u2019re not even alive, you\u2019re not even worth paying any attention to. You\u2019re certainly nobody that can teach them anything. That\u2019s the big difference.<\/p>\n

Most young people at some point realize that outside of their family there\u2019s a lot to learn from people who are older, who have lived more, who have advice or wisdom. But not this crop. They have no respect for Pelosi or what she\u2019s done, and it doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever she\u2019s done for the Democrat Party, whatever struggles she personally overcame to win and become one of the most powerful elected Democrats, doesn\u2019t matter a whit to them. She\u2019s old, just get out of the way. The only exception is Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg, only, that I can find.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Hey, look. I had an interview with Senator Lindsey Graham before the program for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter and I\u2019ll just give you a little hint. He said the same thing that our last caller did. He thinks the Democrat Party is not unified and is on the verge of having a major, major fracture.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, I want to get back to the subject of our last caller in the previous hour who made what I\u2019m sure many of you think was really out-there claim, and that is that it\u2019s the Democrat Party that\u2019s fracturing, we just don\u2019t see it because it really isn\u2019t being reported and it\u2019s hard to believe because the Democrats just took back control of the House, and they made inroads in certain places in the Senate. It\u2019s a lot closer than anybody would like. And we all see the red and blue map, and we see the blue getting bigger. So how can it be that the Democrats are having a fracture or a fissure?<\/p>\n

Well, I talked to Lindsey Graham this morning, a rare morning interview for The Limbaugh Letter, the next issue upcoming. He said the same thing. I talked to him about a number of different things, including the election and the Florida recount. But not only does he think that the Democrat Party is fracturing, and he also described the fracture as becoming apparent once the new House is sworn in and the young socialist Democrats try to assert their power there.<\/p>\n

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It is his belief that nobody is really prepared for what we\u2019re gonna see because it hasn\u2019t truly been reported on just how much opposition the old-line, Jurassic Park Democrats have from their own young Turk socialist Democrats, like Ocasio-Cortez, and there\u2019s some other young ones in there that got elected too. And in contrast to that, Senator Graham made the case that the Republicans are unifying around Donald Trump!<\/p>\n

He was extolling the virtues of Trump in this interview like I haven\u2019t heard anybody extolling the virtues of Trump in a while, and he was suggesting that it\u2019s the Republican Party that is going to be unifying as we get to 2020. And I know a lot of people are gonna read it, \u201cThis is just hype. He can\u2019t really believe this.\u201d But I think that he\u2019s serious about it. When he said this, I said, “But, wait a minute, Senator. What about the Never Trumpers? I mean, these are conservatives who are watching their life\u2019s work be implemented as policy and they oppose it!\u201d<\/p>\n

And he agreed that that was crazy, but he thinks that they\u2019re a minority and they\u2019re not gonna be able to disrupt the Republican Party coming together. He did acknowledge that — and he\u2019s curious about this idea that Republicans are losing suburban women. He\u2019s not sure where that comes from, not sure it\u2019s true, but needs to look at it. And he made the case which many from his side of the aisle do that the Hispanic vote is not guaranteed to go Democrat like everybody thinks that it is.<\/p>\n

But on the side of the Democrats and their fracture, I want to take you back — grab audio sound bite number 11. I just want to remind you what I said about this last Wednesday, the day after the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: The smart money says it\u2019s gonna be Pelosi, but I really am gonna be keeping a sharp eye out for some of these new arrivals on the Democrat side, some of these young Millennial types \u2014 who, believe me, know more than anything about anybody.<\/p>\n

\"\"They know more than anybody knows, and they have no patience. I mean, we\u2019re almost in a Logan\u2019s Run. Remember that movie where everybody over 30 was killed? Well, we\u2019re not quite there, but the attitude here is that old people need to get out of the way and stop slowing things down and screwing things up. Old people simply can\u2019t relate to the present.<\/p>\n

I see them sitting here as Pelosi gives them that lay of the land and firing right back, \u201cWho are you, old woman? You got no business telling us what to do! You think you run this place? It\u2019s your turn to get out of the way. You don\u2019t threaten me.\u201d I\u2019m saying, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if that happens.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is a prediction based on what does now happen. Freshmen are brought into the offices of the speaker and the leaders of their party, and they\u2019re given the lay of the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou like being here? You like winning the election?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to stay here, get reelected?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yeah, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to eventually have a meaningful committee appointment, maybe even a chairman?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yeah, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, then you\u2019ve got to do everything we say your first term. You vote the way we tell you to vote, you vote when we tell you to vote, you say what we tell you to say when you vote the way we tell you to vote. And if you do that, everything\u2019s gonna be fine. We\u2019ll make sure you get reelected or at least get a lot of money to run your reelection campaign. We\u2019ll support you. But if you do not follow through on our instructions, then you\u2019re finished! You\u2019re not gonna be here after one term. We\u2019re gonna see to it that you lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

That still happens. It happens on both sides. It happens on the Republican side, too, to a certain extent. Can you imagine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in all of her publicly raging ignorance, can you imagine her in that meeting being talked to that way? Can you imagine her being acquiesce and say, “Oh, sure. Okay.” That\u2019s not gonna happen. She\u2019s gonna fire back at \u2019em, “Who are you to tell me how to vote? You\u2019re the past. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. You don\u2019t even know why I got elected. You don\u2019t even know how I got elected. Screw this! I\u2019m voting for my people. I\u2019m voting for what I think is right. It\u2019s your turn to get out of the way. Hell, who are you?”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s their attitude about anybody five years older or older. Here\u2019s Max Rose. Last night on Your World With Neil Cavuto<\/a>, Congressman-Elect Max Rose, Democrat, New York, Cavuto asked him who he will support as speaker. Cavuto says, \u201cWe know you\u2019re not keen on Pelosi.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ROSE: I\u2019m not a supporter of Nancy Pelosi, and I am not voting for her, no ifs, ands, or buts, under any circumstances. That\u2019s what I\u2019m controlling.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not gonna vote for Pelosi. I couldn\u2019t care less. Pelosi\u2019s not gonna matter. She\u2019s old, she\u2019s a witch, been there way too long, she can\u2019t possibly be as hungry, she\u2019s too rich, she can\u2019t possibly. Hell, just because she\u2019s old and been there and done it doesn\u2019t mean she should be entitled to it. We\u2019re not voting for her.<\/p>\n

Believe me, this is not sitting well with the Democrat leadership. It\u2019s not sitting well with the Washington elite establishment. Stu Rothenberg is a member of the Washington elite establishment. He was on the PBS NewsHour last night, and he was asked the following question: “At the top levels, the leadership team appears to be headed to remain in place. Pelosi as speaker and all that. They\u2019ve been there for about a decade. The three top leaders are in their late seventies. Now, is this gonna be a challenge for the Democrats, the public face of the party almost 80 years old as we approach 2020?”<\/p>\n

ROTHENBERG: Let\u2019s remember the speaker is a woman, Clyburn is an African-American; so this is a party that has tried to be more diverse and welcoming, but there\u2019s no question that 18 to 29 years old, 18- to 35-year-olds, they would be more comfortable seeing, I think, some younger members. It doesn\u2019t have to even be in the formal leadership, John. These are people who speak for the party and are involved in TV interviews and things like that. I think that would be helpful for Democrats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What he\u2019s saying is that these youngsters, yeah, they\u2019re good to have on TV, but let\u2019s not make \u2019em in charge of anything. We\u2019ll let you youngsters, we\u2019ll let you go on TV and say whatever you want to do, but you leave running the House to us veterans. That\u2019s what Rothenberg is saying. And we shall see. They may do a good job of tamping it down, Pelosi and her crew. They certainly have experience at that. We\u2019ll find out in January.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right here, this is what I was talking about. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins a climate change protest in Pelosi\u2019s office. We\u2019ve got the audio coming up. Democrat socialist and congresswoman elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent her first day in Washington as an incoming freshman by joining climate protesters in Pelosi\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna let you hear this idiot \u2013 um, in a moment you will hear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking to these protesters outside Pelosi\u2019s office, and she gets a rock star welcome. There are high fives all over the place. She gives a nothing burger speech, and these kids, these protesters are just nodding like bobblehead dolls in Pelosi\u2019s office. Here you go.<\/p>\n