{"id":305556,"date":"2019-04-09T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=305556"},"modified":"2019-04-10T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:29:11","slug":"totalitarian-police-state-twitter-marxists-force-democrats-to-be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/09\/totalitarian-police-state-twitter-marxists-force-democrats-to-be-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"Totalitarian, Police State, Twitter Marxists Force Democrats to Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jerry in Manhattan, Kansas. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. You are next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. It\u2019s my opinion, Rush, that the Democrats and the media through their false narratives, has already accomplished a big part of their goal by virtue of the fact that they\u2019ve won the House of Representatives back, and allowed all these radicals to gain the limelight and continue these falsehoods. Do you think that if the truth prevails in a couple years, those could be accomplished back with Republicans?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Oh, yeah. I do. I am optimistic. I\u2019m always optimistic that the truth will out. I couldn\u2019t do this if I weren\u2019t optimistic that it was all gonna work out. I couldn\u2019t do it. And I\u2019m especially optimistic with Trump in office. I don\u2019t know how much optimism I would lose if it weren\u2019t Trump. If there were another Republican in office, I don\u2019t think we would have… Well, I don\u2019t want to say that. Our chances would be a lot slimmer. I think Trump has get reelected, and the work has to continue.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll tell you, yesterday I had a column by Bob Kerrey<\/a> calling out these radicals on the left and just how asinine they are, and how with all of this blame on “white men, white privilege, white nationalism,” that they\u2019re really marginalizing the Democrat Party. Bob Kerrey, a former Democrat presidential candidate, senator from Nebraska, was sounding a warning and really calling these people out. Then there was a story from the AP yesterday saying that the Democrats need white male voters.<\/a><\/p>\n

They can see what\u2019s happening. You know, it\u2019s all good to keep this lunatic left-wing, Twitter-organized base happy, but they\u2019re not gonna win election — and even Pelosi! Pelosi came out and gave a visible slap in the face to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying that a Twitter audience is nowhere near what you need to get votes, that Twitter audiences are not votes and nobody should think that they are. That was a slap. She\u2019s essentially saying to other Demoracrts, “Don\u2019t be fooled into thinking this woman Cortez has any kind of coalition because of Twitter followers.”<\/p>\n

“Nobody\u2019s found a way to translate Twitter followers into votes because nobody knows how the legitimate the Twitter followers are, how many of \u2019em are real people versus how many of \u2019em are bots.” So the Democrat Party itself knows that they\u2019re in trouble in this regard. Let\u2019s see what else. Da-da-da-da. I\u2019ve got to do this California story. Oh, man. Yeah. “Pelosi Appears to Mock Ocasio-Cortez Over Reliance on Twitter for Support<\/a>.” Here\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s happening… Oh! “Sherrod Brown Explains How Democrats Can sell the Progressive Message in Trump Country.”<\/p>\n

There are a bunch of \u2019em out there, Jerry, on the Democrat side, that know that the Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, they are not the way to secure a voting majority. But here\u2019s what the Democrats are up against. One of the reasons that Clinton and Obama succeeded… Now, do not doubt me on this. Stick with me on this. One of the reasons that Clinton and Obama succeeded… Maybe one of the main reasons. Well, not main, because there\u2019s a couple others that are pretty big too.<\/p>\n

But one of the big reasons that Clinton-Obama succeeded is that they were able to pretend to be moderates. Remember Clinton talking about triangulation and Obama talking about, “Our values make America be what we gotta be”? Neither of these two would ever, would ever honestly portray how stridently leftist they were until you saw them appoint judges. When you saw the judges they appointed and you knew that they were leftist radicals to the core, but they couldn\u2019t get away with being honest about that.<\/p>\n

\"\"What\u2019s different today is that Twitter will not let Democrats play that game. This is a key point. The Clintons acted like and were said to be moderates, triangulators, pragmatists. But if you look at Obama or Clinton\u2019s court appointments, Supreme Court, other words, leftists to the core.<\/p>\n

Obama played the same game. I mean his mentors were Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright. But he sold himself as a purple state moderate Democrat, governed as a hyper-regulating statist who appointed Supreme Court justices with radical leftist philosophies.<\/p>\n

But publicly they both got away with making themselves look like centrists and moderates. And nobody was gonna call \u2019em out on it, except us. The media wouldn\u2019t call \u2019em out on it. And so their supporters were thought to be, the people electing Obama and the Clintons were thought to also be centrists and moderates and soccer moms and white people who wanted to prove that America wasn\u2019t racist, so they vote for the first African-American candidate to show that they\u2019re not racist, and then Twitter blew up.<\/p>\n

Twitter became the home of angry, unstable, deranged, delusional, anonymous leftists who have no interest in pretending to be moderate about anything. They hide behind fake names. They create robots or bots to amplify their numbers. Twitter users form mobs that actively work to destroy reputations, policies, business interests of Republicans and conservatives. Twitter is one of the origin places, aside from the Drive-Bys, of fake news.<\/p>\n