{"id":315564,"date":"2019-07-15T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=315564"},"modified":"2019-07-16T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:24:02","slug":"rump-triples-down-makes-anti-americans-the-face-of-the-democrat-party%e2%80%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/15\/rump-triples-down-makes-anti-americans-the-face-of-the-democrat-party%e2%80%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Triples Down! Makes Anti-Americans the Face of the Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:. Classic Trump at the White House moments ago. We\u2019re rolling the audio off and we\u2019ll have it ASAP. And he was being cheered by the audience. The only people not cheering were the Drive-By Media reporters who were there. And he made the point. There no racism in these tweets. I didn\u2019t say a thing about that. These people hate America.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, Ilhan Omar and some of these others that are in the Squad, what their defense is, \u201cWe do not hate America. We are trying to improve America. We are we are trying to perfect America,\u201d which is an absolute crock. In the case of Ilhan Omar, she\u2019s from Somalia. She hates Jews. She hates Israel. The United States, in her world, is the number one enabler of Israel. She despises Israel, therefore, we have a big problem, the United States has a big problem.<\/p>\n

But these people on the left, they cover for themselves by saying, “We don\u2019t hate America. We are trying to improve America for everybody. We\u2019re a gigantic melting pot. There\u2019s nobody native to America.\u201d They are distorting the entire concept of what it means to be an American. They want people to think — that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want any borders. Anybody who gets here is an American, because, you see, American citizenship, the concept of being an American is not related to being an American at all. It\u2019s related to residency. If you\u2019re here, you\u2019re an American. You could be a communist American; you could be a totalitarian socialist American. That\u2019s not what America is.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s not socialist. America\u2019s not communist. America\u2019s not totalitarian. America is entirely exceptional to every other system of government that there has ever been devised by human beings. They\u2019re trying to tear that down. And they call that perfecting the country. They call that correcting America\u2019s mistakes.<\/p>\n

They hide behind slavery, women not being able to vote, as though they\u2019re still happening, as though since they existed once, that\u2019s what America really is. America hasn\u2019t changed, America\u2019s still a country for white supremacists and white racists. It\u2019s a crock. It\u2019s offensive. And people have had their fill of it. So they come along and they say America needs to be improved, America needs to be perfected. What they\u2019re trying to do is water down the definition of an American.<\/p>\n

These people are not interested in assimilating. They\u2019re not interested in learning what the American culture is. In other words, they\u2019re not really curious to find out why they want to be here. They just want to come here, take advantage of what they think the economic opportunities are. But their real problem is that they have a problem with America because the American people are too free. The American people have too much liberty and too much say-so over their own lives.<\/p>\n

\"\"And boy, if you come here and think that\u2019s a problem, there\u2019s no way you can be an American. If you think that the problem in America is too much freedom, too much liberty, not a big enough government, then you\u2019re not an American, you\u2019re nowhere close to being an American. But they want to be able to say you\u2019re an American simply if you\u2019re here! Blow up the whole concept of citizenship. Blow up what it means to be an American and replace it with geography. If you\u2019re in America, you\u2019re an American.<\/p>\n

And the left is on this tear to pull this change off. It\u2019s really insidious, if you ask me. You go back to the earlier days of legal immigration, people came here wanting to become Americans. They came here and they assimilated. They held on to their original nationality, of course, lived in the same neighborhoods, but they wanted to become Americans. They wanted to know what that meant because they wanted to be part of it.<\/p>\n

They were fleeing oppression. They were fleeing poverty and sickness. They were fleeing tyranny. They wanted the exact opposite. The people we\u2019re talking about who claim to want to fix America\u2019s imperfections are essentially trying to implement the same things earlier immigrants fled, under the premise that America is flawed by the very virtue of its founding. It\u2019s what\u2019s been going on for the last 50 years. Some of it very subtly, very quietly in classrooms where indoctrination takes place. Some of it out in the open. But it\u2019s never been as out in the open as it is now.<\/p>\n

And here is Donald Trump calling them out like no one has before. It\u2019s almost a replay, as I said in the last hour, of Trump coming down the escalator on June 15th, 2015. It\u2019s almost an exact replay of that. He\u2019s tripling down on it today, after doubling town on it Sunday, after originating it on Saturday. And he\u2019s making it clear as a bell in the little clip that I saw during the top of the hour, he said, “Look. There\u2019s no question, these people hate this country. They don\u2019t like this country.” And that is really all you have to say, because it resonates, because it is true.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Darrell in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a pleasure to speak with you. I just wanted to lend support to your theory as to why Trump uniting the Dems around AOC and Ilhan Omar is sound political strategy. There was an internal Democratic poll of swing voters. Axios published a story on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: I have that poll (shuffling paper) right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It\u2019s fascinating, is it not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes indeed. Basically, AOC comes across as the most recognizable Democrat among swing voters. She only has a 22% favorability rating. Omar, only 9%. Socialism, only 18%. The interesting thing also is that this poll came out in May, before Pelosi went on her assault. I think Trump probably sensed Pelosi\u2019s strategy, which was to disassociate the party from AOC and her crew, particularly in swing House districts, and what Trump is doing is basically putting them all together again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right! I think that is right on the money. Now, let me give you the details of this poll, because Darrell ran through this rather briefly and it deserves some… It\u2019s not his fault. I mean, he knows caller time here is limited. It\u2019s an internal poll; Axios got it. This is not a public poll. This is one of these internal polls, a private poll just for the Democrats. It has leaked out that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the “most recognizable Democrat in America among swing voters.”<\/p>\n

When you see that and you are a Republican consultant or you\u2019re Donald Trump, you want to use that, you want to amplify that, you want Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to have free rein to be who she is. By the way, in these tweets, do you know that Trump never even mentioned a name? He didn\u2019t mention Cortez, he didn\u2019t mention Ilhan Omar, and yet everybody knows who he\u2019s talking about. How is that? He never even mentioned the name, and they all know who he means. Rick Moran has the story here from PJ Media.<\/p>\n

He says, “All I can say is, Trump should probably start planning the 2021 inaugural parade. Who defines the Democratic party? For millions of so-called ‘swing voters\u2019…” These are the voters that everybody says they have to get to win. You know, these precious independents. Well, “one name dominates” when asking swing voters who it is that defines the Democrat Party: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Axios got hold of the poll, that is being circulated privately by Democrats and is scaring the beejeebees [sic] out of many of them.”<\/p>\n

\"\"It says the exact opposite of what all these polls out there are saying that Biden beats Trump, Fauxcahontas beats Trump, Crazy Bernie beats Trump. This poll says the exact opposite. “These Democrats are sounding the alarm that swing voters know and dislike socialism, warning it could cost them the House and the presidency.” Pelosi knows this. This is why she\u2019s trying to tamp them down. It\u2019s why she\u2019s trying to tamp down their demand for impeachment. She\u2019s trying to marginalize them.<\/p>\n

“The poll is making the rounds of some of the most influential Democrats in America. ‘If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk,\u2019 said a top Democrat who is involved in 2020 congressional races. ‘[S]he\u2019s getting all the news and defining everyone else\u2019s races.'” Now, stop and think about that. They won the House in 2018 midterms. If all voters hear about, swing voters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they could lose. If she becomes the face of the Democrat Party, they not only lose the presidency, they might lose the House.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking here “‘white, non-college voters\u2019 who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts. The group that took the poll shared the results with Axios on the condition that it not be named…” So we don\u2019t know who the polling unit is. Here are the basic findings: “Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll; 22% had a favorable view. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota \u2014 another member of the [Cortez] Squad \u2014 was recognized by 53% of the voters; 9% (not a typo) had a favorable view” if Ilhan Omar.<\/p>\n

“Socialism was viewed favorably by 18% of the voters and unfavorably by 69%” of the voters. “Capitalism was 56% favorable; 32% unfavorable. ‘Socialism is toxic to these [swing] voters,\u2019 said the top Democrat” speaking to them for the poll. So the poll is from May. Here comes Trump doing what he\u2019s doing, makes all the sense in the world that Trump is attempting to unify the Democrats and make Cortez and the Squad the modern-day face.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here we have the Trump sound bites from near the top of the hour, 35\/40 minutes ago. Trump was hosting the third annual Made in America Product Showcase. This was a massively successful event, once again highlighting the upward trends of the U.S. economy. At the Made in America Products Showcase, he tripled down on these comments about members of Congress he didn\u2019t even name. Do you realize this? He didn\u2019t mention Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar. It\u2019s just everybody knew who he meant. So he tripled down on it. He was getting ovations and cheers from the crowd today. The only people making negative noises were the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the first bite…<\/p>\n