It has been a masterful project. It will never be categorized that. It will never be credited as that, particularly with both parties inside the beltway because this said to be so outside the norms of presidential behavior. You don\u2019t give your opponents openings like this.<\/p>\n
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And it all still derives from the fact that all of these professional, lifetime career political people in media out and still do not understand what motivates, what propels Donald Trump, how he thinks strategically, how he acts, even though he\u2019s the most transparent and open president in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n
Just to illustrate my point, we have CBS This Morning, after Gayle King<\/a> — and we\u2019re gonna get to this, Gayle King, Oprah Juniorette interviews the four whack jobs — by the way, that term has been coined by Louisiana Senator John Kennedy to describe these — whatever you want to call them, the Ocasio-Cortez Squad, he\u2019s calling them whack jobs. Gayle King interviewed them today to try to normalize them, and they went off the rails \u2019cause they can\u2019t help it. It\u2019s who they are.<\/p>\n And after that interview on CBS This Morning, the cohost in there went to Major Garrett, who is the chief Washington correspondent, said, “The president seems intent on making them as well-known as possible.\u201d They\u2019re starting to get it now. Everybody the last three days is thinking Trump has really stepped in it now. I said, \u201cNo, no, no, we are reliving that day Trump came down the escalator in June of 2015. The reaction is identical. Shock, dismay, disbelief, this guy\u2019s toast, this guy\u2019s history, he can\u2019t possibly survive the week.\u201d<\/p>\n You know the drill. What in fact he was doing was telling the American people who these four are \u2019cause the media isn\u2019t gonna do it. He\u2019s insulting them and drawing them out, making them respond. Then they start attacking Pelosi. Pelosi and Biden are racists, according to them. Trump is a racist. Everybody\u2019s a racist. All you have to do to be one is disagree with them.<\/p>\n So Trump succeeds in creating the face of the Democrat Party in the image of these four women, these four freshmen. And they\u2019re starting to get it at CBS. The question to Major Garrett: \u201cThe president seems intent to making them as well-known as possible. Could this be \u2013” there\u2019s panic here, by the way, with this question. Could this be, oh, my God. We\u2019re just figuring this out. \u201cCould this be a 2020 strategy?\u201d<\/p>\n GARRETT: Yes. Read his tweets. This is not a person, on politics, who acts subtly or with nuance.<\/p>\n MASON: Yeah.<\/p>\n GARRETT: Read his tweets.<\/p>\n MASON: This is a very calculated move.<\/p>\n GARRETT: He has said they are now the face and the soul of the Democratic Party. Part of what he set in motion this weekend, he hoped, would be to force Democrats to circle the wagons around these four and say, \u201cYou see the Democratic Party is either socialist, radical,\u201d the newest implication, \u201ccommunist,\u201d all these things built to do one thing for 2020. What\u2019s that? Fill the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was a very easy target for all Republicans to instantly, almost inflexibly…<\/p>\n MASON: Right.<\/p>\n GARRETT: …rally around. Who is that or what is that foil? The president\u2019s trying to create that now.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. Now, that\u2019s arguable whether he\u2019s trying to recreate Hillary Clinton in the image — I don\u2019t think he has to recreate Hillary. These people can stand on their own. But the point is that they are now starting to figure it out. In four days, the pattern is the same. Trump does something so outside the norms they can\u2019t believe it, they conclude, this is it, he\u2019s finally stepped in it, he\u2019s gotta apologize this time. If he doesn\u2019t apologize this time, it\u2019s over, he\u2019s toast.<\/p>\n Trump doubles down. They double down in their demand for apology and their mock shock and outrage. Trump triples down, then day four and they start to get it. Have you noticed, ladies and gentlemen, a lack of polling about this? Do you know that if there were negative polls on this, we would have heard about \u2019em starting Monday night, and they would have been the lead item all day yesterday carrying into today.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s \u201cgo home\u201d tweets. Where\u2019s the polling data on \u2019em? You notice there isn\u2019t any. I wonder why that is, folks? Could it be because the Drive-By Media isn\u2019t getting the results they want? No matter how they phrase the questions, no matter how they stack the sample, no matter how they try to lead their subjects to water, they\u2019re not getting the results they want. In fact, there is a poll however. (gasping) Yes indeed, folks, I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.<\/p>\n They call Pelosi a racist. Pelosi should have been censured from the House, not yesterday but last week! Because according to these whack jobs, she\u2019s a racist! She “doesn\u2019t respect women of color” like them! The House should have taken action to censure her last week! They even gave her a pass yesterday. You know, Pelosi was censured… (chuckles) Well, not censured but she was called out for calling the president a racist. House rules say she can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n The Drive-By Media… You won\u2019t believe the stories on this! The Drive-By Media reported on the fact that it is against the rules in the House for any member to call the president a racist. The rule traces back to, as the Drive-By Media reports it, an original slave-owning founder. That\u2019s how they\u2019re reporting this. An original, slave-owning founder created the rule — and he was a Brit! A slave-owning founder who was also a Brit, created the rule. We\u2019re talking about Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n These people are attacking Thomas Jefferson in the Drive-By Media! The author of the Declaration of Independence, for crying out loud! They\u2019re attacking him now! You talk about brilliant maneuvering? The Democrat Party and their willing accomplices in the media are now attacking the founders of the country, and they are making plain what I\u2019ve tried to get everybody to realize is happening: They are not trying to perfect or improve the country. They\u2019re trying to rip it apart, tear it down, so they can rebuild it into this paradise that they dream about.<\/p>\n The Reuters\/Ipsos “national survey, conducted on Monday and Tuesday after Trump told the [whack jobs] they should ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,\u2019 showed his net approval among members of his Republican Party rose by five percentage points to 72%, compared with a similar poll that ran last week.” Now, Reuters also adds that Trump\u2019s support dropped 40 to 30% among the precious independents. They say that Trump\u2019s support has dropped two points among Democrats since last week.<\/p>\n So what? So what? Trump\u2019s not figuring on getting a whole lot of Democrat support here — and you want to start talking polling data of precious independents? Let\u2019s not forget what they think of Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Precious independent swing voters give Omar 9% approval numbers, and Ocasio-Cortez 28%. But the bottom line here is, folks, that the strategy of the president\u2019s is working. Here\u2019s another media member that gets it.<\/p>\n This is Los Angeles Times\u2019 John Healy, the deputy editorial page editor. Headline: “AOC and the Democrats Gave Trump the Fight He Was Looking For<\/a> — President Trump is a gut-level politician who often seems to act on unfiltered impulse. But his string of recent tweets about the self-styled ‘Squad\u2019 of liberal House Democrats feel calculated, not caffeinated. And, despite what a number of [Republican] pundits have argued, they were not politically stupid. Demeaning, offensive, nativist, unbecoming a president — yes [maybe] all that too.<\/p>\n “But Trump offends for a reason, and his motives for this latest fusillade of foulness are pretty obvious. In 2016, Trump could run against Washington and the elites who had failed to deliver for middle America. But now he is Washington, so he needs to find something else to run against. Granted, he talks up the economy incessantly, and there are plenty of Republicans who love him for the tax cuts and deregulation. There are many others on the right and in the middle, though, who wonder how much better we all would be doing with a more rational chief executive…<\/p>\n “So Trump wants to run against something scarier than he is, which is why he has been trying so hard for months to paint Democrats as radical socialists — or worse.” He hasn\u2019t had to work hard at all, hasn\u2019t had to try. All he\u2019s had to do is point it out. He hasn\u2019t created anything. These people are who they are. Trump has come along, and he has drawn them out. He has exacerbated \u2019em. He\u2019s ticked \u2019em off. He\u2019s made them shelve all of their masking and camouflage, and they\u2019re now being open honest about who they are. It has not been hard.<\/p>\n “[H]e has been trying so hard for months to paint Democrats as radical socialists…” That misses the point. They are radical socialists! Trump hasn\u2019t had to “paint” it. Trump just had to draw them out! Mr. Healy says, “That\u2019s where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez et al come in. Trump wants the most liberal and controversial House members to become the face of the Democratic Party so he, the most disruptive and norm-violating president of modern times, will seem like the political equivalent of comfort food…” That\u2019s not what Trump is doing!<\/p>\n These guys want you to believe that Trump\u2019s sitting there in the White House being introspective. Trump does not… Do you know a lot of people who do nothing but think about themselves, and their place in the world, and what other people are thinking of them? That really isn\u2019t Trump. Trump\u2019s not sitting in the White House saying, “Boy, am I a whack job, and I\u2019ve gotta find a way to make somebody look even wackier than I am.” That\u2019s not who Donald Trump is.<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s not up in the Oval Office and he\u2019s not up there with Melania and they\u2019re not sitting up there talking about what an abnormal guy he is. He thinks he\u2019s great! He thinks he\u2019s the best ever! He\u2019s not sitting there ripping himself a new one, being all introspective and pessimistic. He\u2019s not got a psychological disorder where he can\u2019t do anything but think about himself, at least in negative ways. So these people all think that because they realize Trump is an abnormal jerk, that he does.<\/p>\n And since Trump knows he\u2019s an abnormal jerk, he\u2019s gotta create even bigger abnormal jerks than he is! And so that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing. They\u2019ve got the end result right, but they\u2019ve got Trump\u2019s motivation all wrong. Trump is not trying to make anybody appear weirder than he is! He\u2019s trying to make these people show themselves as they are, and he is attempting to have everybody else realize that this is who they are. It\u2019s not just these four. It\u2019s the entire party.<\/p>\n It\u2019s rather brilliant, and there\u2019s not a single other Republican who could possibly do this who would even have the desire to strategically do it. You think John Kasich would ever try to engage in a program like this to illustrate to Democrats for who they really are, or Mitt Romney or McCain or any of the others? No. It\u2019s about time this happened. It\u2019s about time somebody took it to them. It\u2019s about time the American people en masse got a taste and a picture of who these people are. But the idea that it\u2019s happening because Trump knows he\u2019s a whack job?<\/p>\n Trump knows he\u2019s insane, Trump knows he\u2019s a loose cannon, so he\u2019s gotta find somebody who\u2019s even insaner and a bigger loose cannon is just — as somebody said earlier this week — too clever by half. “So,” it says here, Trump “launched a sustained attack on the four Squad members knowing full well that Democrats would rally around them…” That sounds pretty smart to me. Some people might think that that was a big risk. Okay, you go after these whack jobs… Do you realize how Pelosi could have thwarted this?<\/p>\n It would have been real easy for Pelosi to throw these women overboard. It would have been really easy for Pelosi to say, “You know what? I\u2019m the Speaker and they\u2019re freshmen and they don\u2019t speak for the caucus and they don\u2019t speak for the Democrat Party. They haven\u2019t done anything yet.” She could have done that and thwarted every attempt Trump is making here. But no. She decided that she had to try to mollify \u2019em. She decided that she had to sort of try to make them happy. So she goes to the well of the House.<\/p>\n She goes to the floor of the House and starts calling Trump a racist herself — and, believe me, this is not who Pelosi is. I mean, she might think it, but she knows it\u2019s bogus. She knows that\u2019s not true. You can come up with any kind of criticism you want of Trump you want, but that\u2019s not valid. She\u2019s doing that, she\u2019s pandering to these whack jobs. That\u2019s another brilliant move! Pelosi has been forced into pandering to these people to try to calm them down — and it isn\u2019t gonna work, because they want her scalp.<\/p>\n They want her job.<\/p>\n They want her gone.<\/p>\n She\u2019s as big a problem to them as Trump is.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no way she can buy their love. There\u2019s no way she can buy their support. These people, these four are off and running — and as far as they\u2019re concerned, they are the face and the energy and the intellect of the Democrat Party. Nancy Pelosi may as well be Jurassic Park, may as well be a museum exhibit on the other side of the glass. You may stop and gaze a couple seconds as you walk to see the next dinosaur, but that\u2019s about as much as she is. So she starts pandering to them, starts calling Trump a racist to try to get on their good side. This is classic, folks. It really is.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to tell you about the woman that\u2019s gonna primary Cortez. But here\u2019s John Kennedy last night. He was on with Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the Fox News Channel, and the question:<\/p>\n “The idea appears to be that if you call enough people racist, you can get elected president.” This is a reaction to Pelosi calling Trump a racist. Biden and all these other Democrat candidates are now chiming in, getting on board, calling Trump a racist. When Trump didn\u2019t even… Stop and think of this. Trump didn\u2019t even mention their names and yet they all four stood up and said, “It\u2019s me he\u2019s talking about!” He didn\u2019t even mention their names much less their race and yet everybody knew who he was he was talking about.<\/p>\n So now the question is, “Is that how you win? If you\u2019re a Democrat and you want to become president, you just call everybody a racist?”<\/p>\n KENNEDY: No. I don\u2019t think President Trump is a racist. I don\u2019t think his original tweet was racist. I\u2019m not sure the president should exchange playground insults with them. You know, when you try to argue with a fool, that proves there are two. But the president decided to do so. The simple fact of the matter is that four congresswomen think that America was wicked in its origins; they think that America and its people are even more wicked now, that we are all racist and misogynistic and evil. They\u2019re entitled to their opinion. They\u2019re Americans. But I\u2019m entitled to my opinion, and I just think they\u2019re left-wing cranks, and they\u2019re the reason that there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I think we should ignore them.<\/p>\n RUSH: “They are the reason [we have] directions on a shampoo bottle. I think we should ignore them.” John Kennedy, Republican, Louisiana.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is Conrad in Hooker, Oklahoma. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. It\u2019s great to be on again. I\u2019m a listener since \u201988. Great to be with you.<\/p>\n RUSH: I appreciate that, Conrad, from Hooker.<\/p>\n CALLER: (chuckles) You know, these guys that called in yesterday are so wrong. I mean, we\u2019ve already tried the “just any Republican” with Romney, with McCain. We don\u2019t want that. The reason… They don\u2019t even understand why Trump got elected. He just said in his tweets what I\u2019ve been screaming for the last three elections: “If you don\u2019t like the country, get the hell out.” I mean, we love America. We love hardworkin\u2019 people. They just need to take off their vagina hats and stop marching.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, actually, I think… You know, I know what you\u2019re saying, and you\u2019re right. The “love it or leave it,” “go home” bumper stickers have been around forever, proving again that it\u2019s not racist. It\u2019s just that people have been threatening to leave and we say, “Okay, go!” They never do! 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