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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Patrick in Brecksville, Ohio. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you? Mega dittos, 1991 dittos. You know, with the Bush funeral, I\u2019ve had a real hard time, you know, kind of feeling my normal grief or normal respect for him. I respect him. I think he was a fantastic man. But given how cynical I\u2019ve become on so many things and sort of his lack of fighting back and what the Republicans have done over the last 40 years, I find it really hard now to have as much, you know, respect or grief. It\u2019s certainly like, you know, I didn\u2019t feel like the way I did when Reagan passed.<\/p>\n
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It kind of troubles me, but I think it ties into where we\u2019re at today. I think it ties into Trump. You know, and I almost hold — I don\u2019t identify as a Republican anymore, but I almost hold them more responsible than the liberals. Liberals are what they are. We know we\u2019re not gonna get anything from them. When I call my congressman on the right, you know, Republicans, and you get basically the same treatment from the liberals, there\u2019s no fighting back, you know, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, I mean —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, see, wait. Let me stop you because this is exactly what\u2019s being praised. And this is what\u2019s phony about it. They\u2019re praising the Bushes both for not fighting back, basically allow the left to steamroll. Bush changed his —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — take on taxes. That\u2019s what they\u2019re praising as bipartisanship. That\u2019s what they\u2019re praising as an era gone by, when we could work with Republicans, when Republicans agreed to lose, when Republicans agreed to let us win. That isn\u2019t Trump. And I\u2019ll go so far, I think what you\u2019re trying to say — and correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but I think what you\u2019re trying to say is that, in truth, the reluctance of not just the Bushes — there\u2019s a lot of Republican elected people that didn\u2019t want to fight back \u2019cause they\u2019re scared to death of the media. Didn\u2019t to want fight back against Obama because they\u2019re scared of being charged racist. And that lack, that reluctance is what gave us Trump.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Precisely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There you go.<\/p>\n
CALLER: 110 percent. That\u2019s the full draw-out of that for me. And that\u2019s what they still don\u2019t get about why we support Trump. I don\u2019t always agree with everything he does, again, we can go into that nonsense, but again, when I talk to people, I take him and his fight and his support of us and trying to do what\u2019s right and taking it to the other side and trying to accomplish these things over the lay down and die and let them run over us.<\/p>\n
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So, you know, I\u2019ll take the good with the bad, right? And to me, the past 40 years, what have Republicans solved? George Bush was a good, decent man, yes. But what did he really get done? What did we really benefit from it? And so at some point I get kind of tired of supporting that when I really don\u2019t ever get any payoff for it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is precisely why I have been trying to stress that what we have been seeing today is not the way our politics used to be. It\u2019s the way the left wants it to be, but it\u2019s never been this way. The Bush family, the Bush values, the traditions, virtues, whatever you want to call them that defined them and governed their philosophies of life is what we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n
And my point is that that that we\u2019re seeing used to define the whole country or the vast, vast majority of it. And it\u2019s important to know that\u2019s what\u2019s been lost, the virtues, the values, the manners, what have you, that people are watching in this funeral are what used to be the norm. And we\u2019ve lost them. And not because of Donald Trump. We have lost them because there was a war raged against them, waged against them beginning in the late eighties or the early nineties.<\/p>\n
I could even peg it, if you wanted to put militant feminism in this mix, which you can, it\u2019s clearly one of the many ingredients of the culture war, you have to go back to the late sixties for that. The attack on America, as founded, has been ongoing since then. But the real intense version has been within many of our lifetimes. And here\u2019s the thing that people in Washington, both parties, refuse to understand. This isn\u2019t a political skirmish over the budget. It\u2019s not a political skirmish over how many more years we\u2019re gonna have Social Security.<\/p>\n
People who voted for Donald Trump genuinely believed their country as founded was at stake. When those are the stakes, it doesn\u2019t matter that your guy defending you may have manners on Twitter that are not recommendable. It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is saving the country from the marauders on the left who want to basically erase every vestige of our founding and turn this country over to people for whom it was never intended. And in that kind of a battle with that on the line — but Washington doesn\u2019t see that crisis. Republicans, Democrats, there isn\u2019t any kind of crisis. It\u2019s the average political arguments of the day. They come and go. That\u2019s the great divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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