{"id":306495,"date":"2019-04-17T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=306495"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:06:49","slug":"wisdom-from-anti-anti-trump-norman-podhoretz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/17\/wisdom-from-anti-anti-trump-norman-podhoretz\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from “Anti-Anti-Trump” Norman Podhoretz"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Norman Podhoretz is a brilliant conservative, formally liberal. I\u2019ve had the pleasure and the honor of getting to know him over the years. He is a person that started out, he called himself an anti-anti-Trump supporter. Meaning he originally was a supporter of Trump by being against the people who were against Trump.<\/p>\n

And people have talked him, he has explained his anger and his confusion over the Never Trumpers. And everybody\u2019s said, \u201cNorman, write that, put that down on paper.\u201d He\u2019s a great writer, a substantive thinker that is rare. And he\u2019s probably the greatest living neocon, neoconservative, meaning former liberal, now conservative, ever since Irving Kristol passed away.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And he has jotted some of this down now. And Dinesh D\u2019Souza copied and pasted some of it in his Twitter page<\/a>. And it\u2019s good, and I want to read it to you. It\u2019s not going to take that long. And it\u2019s actually Podhoretz answering some questions. “Yeah, I\u2019m actually quite proud of that section of the book. It certainly convinced me. See, for a while I was supporting Marco Rubio, and I was enthusiastic about him as time went on, and I looked around me, however, and I began to be bothered by the hatred that was building up against Trump from my soon-to-be new set of ex-friends.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about these conservative intellectual Never Trumpers. He was aghast at the hatred that he was seeing from them and in the things they would say and the things that they would write. He said, “You could think that Trump was unfit for office. I can understand that. But my ex-friends\u2019 revulsion was always accompanied by attacks on the people who supported him. They called these people dishonorable, they called \u2019em opportunists, they called Trump supporters cowards. And this was done by people like Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, and Bill Kristol and various others. And I took offense at that. So that inclined me to what I then became anti-anti-Trump. And by the time Trump finally won the nomination, I was sliding into a pro-Trump position which has grown stronger and more passionate as time has gone on.\u201d<\/p>\n

And talking about the Never Trumpers he said there\u2019s snobbery in it and there\u2019s genuine, you might say, aesthetic revulsion. \u201cIt\u2019s more than disagreement about policy, because the fact of the matter is that they don\u2019t have very many grounds for disagreement about policy,\u201d which has always been my observation. The things that they have devoted their lives to, policy-wise, Trump is implementing for the most part. And they still hate it! They still resent it.<\/p>\n

Look, I have my own reasons to explain the Never Trumpers, but here is a fellow intellectual of theirs now admitting that they are his former friends. He says, \u201cI\u2019ve known Bill Kristol all of his life, and I like him, but I have to say that I am shocked by him saying that if it comes to the deep state versus Trump, he\u2019ll take the deep state? You know, I was raised to believe the last thing in the world you defend is your own. And I\u2019m proud to have overcome that education. I think the first thing in the world you defend is your own, especially when it\u2019s under siege, both from without and within.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the conservative elite has allowed its various features, its sense of superiority to overcome its intellectual powers. Let\u2019s put it that way. I don\u2019t know how else to explain it. The Never Trumper phenomenon is something that bugs a lot of people, and it has resulted in the breakup of a lot of really deep and long friendships at various conservative magazines and conservative think tanks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, you might be puzzled, what does this mean, I was raised to believe the last thing in the world you defend is your own? That\u2019s a manners thing that you don\u2019t focus on yourself. You defend and protect everything but your own so that you can show you\u2019re not selfish and into it for yourself. But he\u2019s had a total reversal. Like you don\u2019t defend your own, who else will? And if your own and what you believe in is under attack, you have no reason to shy away from defending it. So that\u2019s what he means by that.<\/p>\n

But his observation, the conservative elite has allowed its sense of superiority to overcome its intellectual powers. That\u2019s right on the money. Superiorist arrogance, condescension really aimed at Trump supporters as much, if not more, at Trump. But I think there\u2019s jealousy. I think Trump coming along has proven the lack of need.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, these people for the longest time thought of themselves as the intellectual bulwark for conservatism. They were defining it. They were the locomotive. They were propelling it. They were enforcing it. They were influencing others. And in that regard, they were always asking for donations. Their hands were always out. “Here. Donate to my think tank. Donate to my magazine. Donate to my cruise. Whatever, give me money.”<\/p>\n

Wait a minute, you\u2019re conservative. What is this “give me money” business? \u201cWell, we\u2019re so important, the conservative movement, that we need our funding in nontraditional ways.\u201d Well, if your magazine can\u2019t make a profit, then how valuable is it, really? \u201cWell, uh, the value is not the magazine, but the intellectual prowess that puts it together,\u201d blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Here comes Trump, somebody they have no respect for, somebody they think is an absolute birthing idiot, and is not asking anybody for a dime and is implementing everything they believed in to cheers and applause that they will never hear for themselves, and they\u2019re just jealous.<\/p>\n

Trump is demonstrating that they\u2019ve been running maybe a little bit of a scam. What good have they been in implementing conservatism and advancing it if a guy who\u2019s never been in politics before can come in and get elected president in less than two years, implement 90% of what they devoted their lives to. So I think that\u2019s a factor.<\/p>\n

But as Mr. Podhoretz says, it\u2019s really a class thing. The superiorist, nose in the air looking down at lessers and having those lessers outperform you and demonstrate your own irrelevance got to be infuriating. And now their magazines are going belly up, so they\u2019re starting new websites, and they can\u2019t get subscribers for that. So it\u2019s doubly frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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