{"id":316428,"date":"2019-07-22T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=316428"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:01:22","slug":"what-ive-figured-out-about-this-focus-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/22\/what-ive-figured-out-about-this-focus-on-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Never-Trumper Neocons Join Democrats to Bring Trump Down with Cries of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: All right. I think I figured it out. Well, it\u2019s not that big a deal to figure out, but I think I figured something very important out. And that is this ongoing business of Trump is a racist and the Republicans are racists and the <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/07\/22\/caller-thanks-rush-explaining-the-moon-landing\/\">Moon landing was racist<\/a>, this focus on race, it\u2019s new.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there\u2019s always been the allegation running around, but this is new. This has reached a brand-new level and I think I figured out in part what\u2019s going on. I\u2019ll share it with you as the program unfolds today with examples of what I\u2019m talking about in various Drive-By Media stories.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the New York Times has gone all-in with the fact that the Moon landing promoted inequality and promoted racism. Because there weren\u2019t any transgenders involved, there weren\u2019t any women involved, because there weren\u2019t any African-Americans involved we\u2019re all feeling a very shameful kind of pride in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. This is the New York Times. It\u2019s not some fringe publication, although I think it is becoming a fringe publication in terms of who reads it and who believes what they see in it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let me move on to something here that has become front and center. Normally summertime, the time that we\u2019re in now, is a slow period for political news. Congress is gone, president\u2019s gone, president\u2019s out on vacation doing things, generally takes some time off. You wouldn\u2019t know by virtue of the news today.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, here is what I think &#8212; and I\u2019m not gonna be able to complete this before the break, but I want to get started here. I was chatting with a good friend over the weekend. We were discussing the ongoing weirdness and oddity of so many conservative Never Trumpers and why they are. And we looked at a couple of things that &#8212; I\u2019m not gonna mention any names of Never Trumpers because I don\u2019t want to elevate them, but they\u2019re starting to get in on this racism business too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-060419-Never-Trumpers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-060419-Never-Trumpers-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-060419-Never-Trumpers-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Conservative Never Trumpers are out there joining this refrain that Trump is a racist. So we were chatting about what\u2019s really going on here, and we think we have figured out the game that is being played. It\u2019s not just by the conservative Never Trumpers, however. It\u2019s by the entire media, the leftist media and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it starts with this. We have a two-party system. We have the Democrats and the Republicans. We have some pretender third parties like the Libertarians and the Reform Party, but even if they were to ever get somebody elected, they don\u2019t have any kind of constituent base to form a coalition in Congress. So we basically have a two-party system.<\/p>\n<p>However, we\u2019ve got many more than just two political camps. Every political party, both these parties have derivatives. And this is the secret to what is happening here within the Democrat Party. What is their coalition? Their coalition is linked by one or two things they have in common: love of a gigantic, expansive welfare state government, and hatred of us.<\/p>\n<p>So you\u2019ve got the feminazis, you\u2019ve got the LGBTQ crowd, you\u2019ve got the climate change crowd, you\u2019ve got all of these different coalitions. And they have different agendas. But their overlap is hatred for us and belief in a gigantic welfare state government.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on the other side got the Republican Party. Within the Republican Party you\u2019ve got the moderates, you\u2019ve got the social liberals, fiscal conservatives, you have the straight-down-the-middle conservatives, got the evangelicals, religious right, this kind of thing. This is what I\u2019m talking about when I mention the political camps that are within both parties.<\/p>\n<p>But all of this still equals a two-party system. The presidential election every year is between Republican and Democrat. So they all have to divide themselves on one side or the other. All these different constituencies of both the Democrats and Republicans, at the end of the day, have to count themselves on one side or the other.<\/p>\n<p>And when you do that, then you have with each element, both the Democrats and the Republicans, they both have their extremists. But the extremists\u2019 place on each side is not the same. The extreme right wingers are really way off the map, and they have no support and nothing in common with the mainstream conservative or Republican Party. Not true on the left. The extreme leftists are now becoming the face of and the definition of the Democrat Party. And this is what the media has to cover up.<\/p>\n<p>The media would like you to believe that the white supremacists and the Alt-Right, which is about 30 people, they want you to believe that that is the base for Donald Trump, while trying to tell you that Cortez and her Squad and Antifa and Black Lives Matter are nowhere near defining the Democrat Party. But it\u2019s the exact opposite. The extremists on the left are becoming the face of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>The illustration for this would be that just five years ago, ten years ago Nancy Pelosi was seen as the classic extreme, card-carrying leftist liberal. She was the embodiment of the far left. Today Nancy Pelosi is being positioned by the media as a moderate centrist. She\u2019s being positioned as the power behind your old Democrat Party, your old standard Democrat Party which was not made up of extremists and leftists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-DEMS-at-War-AOC-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-DEMS-at-War-AOC-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-DEMS-at-War-AOC-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Well, Pelosi hasn\u2019t changed. She\u2019s still the fringe leftist that she\u2019s always been. She\u2019s just being portrayed as not that because there are people said to be further left than she is now, like The Squad; so they pitch The Squad versus Pelosi or Antifa or Black Lives Matter. But those people are taking over the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called white nationalists, I don\u2019t even know any. The so-called white nationalists, white supremacists, I don\u2019t even know any. Nobody I know on the Republican side even knows these people. They\u2019re so small, they\u2019re so fringe. But the media is trying to say that they are the Republican Party and that they are Trump\u2019s base and that Trump is one of them. Whereas Pelosi is this moderate, harmless, standard, old-fashioned Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So resuming where I left off &#8212; and those of you on hold, please stay. We\u2019ve got somebody on hold who just received their Boll &amp; Branch Sheets, and they want to open the package while talking to me to tell me what she thinks of them as she opens them. So we\u2019ve got that. Lots of stuff coming up.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So on our side, as I just explained, we have Trump\u2019s base. Trump\u2019s base loves him no matter what he does. It\u2019s not a complaint. Don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s an observation. If you add to Trump\u2019s base, you have traditional conservatives, and you\u2019ve got some mainstream\/center-right Republicans who are not thrilled with Trump. And some of them might disagree with him on a number of things like the tariffs, the spending, the debt. There are a lot of mainstream Republicans who don\u2019t like this blowing up of the world order that we had that Trump has done, which I have previously explained to you.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s getting rid of this idea that the United States is the world\u2019s piggy bank, getting rid of the idea that as the lone superpower of the world we deserve to take it on the chin now and then because that\u2019s part of the price we have to pay. Trump\u2019s throwing all that aside, getting rid of all of that. We\u2019re not gonna become the world\u2019s piggy bank anymore, and we\u2019re not gonna do things not in our interests. And we\u2019re not gonna let people who are supposedly our allies rip us to shreds and undermine us simply because that\u2019s what superpowers have to do.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re gonna be great. We\u2019re gonna stand up for greatness. We want everybody else to follow our lead. Now, within the mainstream the Republican Party, some people don\u2019t like that. I\u2019m talking about&#8230; You know, you\u2019ve got the Republicans and Democrats; then you got various camps within each. So you\u2019ve got Trump\u2019s base, you\u2019ve got the mainstream Republicans who they support him, but they\u2019re not thrilled with him for all these reasons. They don\u2019t like the tweets. They don\u2019t like the language. They don\u2019t like the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-051019-America-First.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-051019-America-First.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-051019-America-First-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But they hate &#8212; and they are petrified of &#8212; the left. But they\u2019re worried. They\u2019re worried about lack of spending restraint. They\u2019re worried about the tariffs and all of that. But they realize that Trump\u2019s presidency is, overall, a net plus. Now, this incorporates most of the Republican Party. If you look at Trump\u2019s approval rating within the Republican Party, he\u2019s always over 90%. But within that approval rating, what I\u2019m saying is, there\u2019s some people that are not thrilled with Trump like Trump\u2019s base is. They realize the alternative to Hillary Clinton or any of these Democrat nominees is simply unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, together, these groups make up the majority of the Republican side. Then there are two smaller groups. You have the Never Trump faction (the conservative literature crowd) which comprises the neocons who loved the Bush administration, because they loved Bush going to war in the Middle East. They loved the idea of that because they believed they were bringing democracy to all the countries. What they did was democratize Islam! (laughing) The big mistake of the Bush administration was to democratize Islam. We brought democracy to Islam. Meaning that when it gets elected like in Iraq, that it is validated!<\/p>\n<p>These people love that, but we don\u2019t. But the Never Trumpers, the neocons, they loved it. And then there are the George Will types, I call \u2019em, who just hate Trump for everything and for any reason on principle. They see Trump as incompetent, a boob. They see him as corrupt. Combined with this is this Never Trump factions nose is permanently out of joint because these are the people that thought they ran everything. They thought they ran the Republican Party and the conservative movement from Bush 41 all the way through Obama, and now they are irrelevant. And they are having a devil of a time dealing with the fact that they used to think they were it, to now realizing they\u2019re irrelevant. Stick with me on this, folks, \u2019cause this is fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So what has happened here is that the Never Trumpers and the neocon coalition of the Republican Party &#8212; who think they ran the party and everything from Bush 41 all the way through Obama &#8212; have now joined forces with the Democrats to get Trump. It is how they are going to get Trump or trying to that we\u2019ve figured out here.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So continuing here my thought &#8212; I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t plan this, to do it all at once, but I wasn\u2019t gonna be able to anyway with commercial breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Basically to summarize, two political parties. Within each party are many factions, many different camps. And the extremes \u2013 both camps, both Republicans and Democrats, have extremes. The mainstream media is attempting to make the Alt-Right and the white nationalist, white supremacists appear to be the mainstream of the Republican Party and that they are Donald Trump\u2019s base.<\/p>\n<p>They are not. There are so few of them. I don\u2019t even know any of these people. I don\u2019t know anybody who does know these people. They are so few in number, they would not represent more than an asterisk if they were ever polled. But the media is trying to portray them as the identity, the main identity of the Republican Party, the white supremacists, the white nationalists, that\u2019s what they want people believe is the Trump base.<\/p>\n<p>On the left side, on the Democrat side, their extremists are the face of the party, and this is what Trump is trying to point out and illustrate. Not just The Squad. Every damn one of them. Antifa, Black Lives Matter, this is the mainstream of the Democrat Party. But the media is trying to hide that. And the media is trying to make it look like Pelosi is the mainstream of the party, and she\u2019s just standard, ordinary, everyday Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100418-Liberals-Seek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100418-Liberals-Seek.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100418-Liberals-Seek-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, it used to be Nancy Pelosi was the extremist of the Democrat Party. She was the face. She and Schumer and all of her leadership people in the House and Senate, they were thought to be &#8212; the Obamas &#8212; they were the extremist leftists. But now they\u2019re being portrayed as moderates. They\u2019re being portrayed as standard, ordinary Democrats, and it\u2019s The Squad and some of these other people who are the malcontents. The media is trying to hide the fact that the extremists on the left are the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Now, where this comes into play is this. The media and the Democrats are not the only people portraying Pelosi and Schumer and Biden and the Clintons as standard, mainstream Democrats. The Never Trumpers have joined that crowd. The Never Trumpers, the Republicans who thought they ran the party, from Bush 41 all the way through Obama, the neocons, the people that thought they defined conservatism, they have been shown to be irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Their noses are out of joint. The things they supposedly stood for and represented obviously are not the primary identity of the Republican Party. And so they have joined forces with the left. They\u2019re prepared to vote for Hillary now, or were. And they\u2019re joining the Pelosi-Schumer-Biden crowd in their criticism of Trump!<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019re positioning Pelosi and Schumer and all that crowd, Biden, as the mainstream, harmless, standard issue, good, old-fashioned Democrats, even though she\u2019s not a moderate, she\u2019s not the mainstream of the party anymore. And the media-Democrat complex and the Never Trumpers have now decided to try to portray the fringe, really fringe extreme right wingers of which there are so few you couldn\u2019t put them all in a phone booth, the Never Trumpers have joined the media in trying to portray that as the mainstream the Republican Party united under Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Now, those of us, you and me, who actually are the mainstream of the Republican Party have now been marginalized and dismissed as a bunch of schemers secretly trying to rationalize racism. And that\u2019s what all of this is. The white nationalists, the white racists said to be the mainstream of the party are now defining it as nationalist racism, and you and I, the mainstream of this party, the mainstream conservatives are being marginalized and said to be part of this gigantic amalgamation.<\/p>\n<p>It is really frustrating because this is the narrative, folks, that we\u2019re gonna be hearing from here on out. From here to the election, this is the narrative. And I\u2019m taking the time here to explain it to you in hopes that you\u2019ll keep it in mind as you digest news and Never Trump criticism in the days and months going forward.<\/p>\n<p>You can find various Never Trumpers &#8212; I\u2019m not gonna mention any names \u2019cause I don\u2019t want to publicize these people and I don\u2019t want to elevate them, but Never Trumpers, former conservatives at conservative publications, websites, are now writing of the Republican Party as though it is a white nationalist party, as though it\u2019s a white racism party, with Trump as the leader, \u2019cause their noses are out of joint because they have discovered they\u2019re not the face of the party, they don\u2019t run it. Trump came in and took it away from \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re ticked off! And they express their anger in this, &#8220;I don\u2019t like his mannerisms. I don\u2019t like his lack of sophistication. I don\u2019t like his lack of civility&#8221; and in a way of elevating themselves as all of that, they are essentially joining the left-wing criticism of us &#8212; this is the thing. It\u2019s not just of Trump. They\u2019re saying of us, mainstream Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re joining the Democrats now in this cacophony of allegation that the Republican Party has become white nationalist racists, and that\u2019s why they can no longer be a part of it and cannot be a part of it as long as Trump leads it. It\u2019s so full of bunk I don\u2019t know how to express it beyond saying that. It is a gigantic, concocted narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071819-Trump-NC-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071819-Trump-NC-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071819-Trump-NC-002-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And that\u2019s why they don\u2019t let go of this charge that Trump is a racist and all of his supporters are racists because you\u2019ve got the Democrat faction now made up of Never Trumpers who are prepared to vote for Joe Biden simply because they hate Donald Trump because Donald Trump took away what they thought was theirs and has rendered them irrelevant in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really maddening, it\u2019s frustrating to have these people who always portrayed themselves and thought of themselves as the intellectual base, the intellectual strength, the intellectual energy that defined conservatism and kept it alive within the Republican Party. That\u2019s what they claimed to be doing. They wanted your donations to enable their work to continue so they could continue to make sure that conservatism was part of the Republican Party, right?<\/p>\n<p>You go on the cruises, you would contribute every year when they would send you the notes that their magazine\u2019s about to go broke or that their website\u2019s about to go broke without your donation, they were there to make sure conservatism stayed in the Republican Party. Those people have now joined with the left to go after Donald Trump as a white nationalist racist.<\/p>\n<p>And then the media, the media is gonna love this. These people are gonna become, and already have become, some of the favorite sources. I mean, you have a got these conservative intellectuals like &#8212; pick your name &#8212; George Will, Bill Kristol, these guys are gonna quoted, they\u2019re gonna be cited, they\u2019re gonna be invited on TV as guests to explain how the Republican Party\u2019s been taken over by white nationalists and racists and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>They may not use the actual terms but they will be answering questions with those terms in them and they\u2019ll be wringing their hands and be so sad, so filled with regret that this has happened, it\u2019s so unfortunate, and in the process it will be contributing to the construct of the media-Democrat complex that Donald Trump and the mainstream Republican Party is now white nationalist and racist.<\/p>\n<p>As I say, it\u2019s a frustrating thing. But, you know, a friend of mine said over the weekend &#8212; it\u2019s absolutely true &#8212; you, me, everybody you know, if we were to be told tomorrow morning when we woke up that the country is now gonna be run by Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, and Thomas Sowell, we would be thrilled. We would be standing up and applauding. We would be saying, &#8220;Where do we sign up?&#8221; It isn\u2019t about race! It never has been about race with us mainstream Republicans. It isn\u2019t about race with Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-070319-cELEBRATE-aMERICAN-gREATNESS-iNDEPENDENCE-dAY-4TH-jULY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-070319-cELEBRATE-aMERICAN-gREATNESS-iNDEPENDENCE-dAY-4TH-jULY.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-070319-cELEBRATE-aMERICAN-gREATNESS-iNDEPENDENCE-dAY-4TH-jULY-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It\u2019s about American greatness. It\u2019s about American fealty to our founding. It\u2019s about America remaining what it was founded to be. It\u2019s about loving the country and loving everybody in it and wanting everybody in it to be the best they can be. It\u2019s about loving the country and loving everybody in it so that people born here or who immigrate here legally will continue to be able to access the unique opportunity human beings in this country have to pursue their dreams and their ambition.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we want. There\u2019s no racial component to this. And I\u2019m sure you could think of additional names to Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, and Clarence Thomas. I\u2019m not kidding. If I woke up tomorrow and found out they are running the country, one\u2019s over at the court, one\u2019s in the White House, and one\u2019s running Congress, I would be in nirvana. And if Jeane Kirkpatrick were still alive, throw her in there.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no sexism, there\u2019s no misogyny, there\u2019s no racism. There\u2019s just on our side a pursuit of the best. We live in the best country. We want the best people in positions of leadership. We want the smartest. We want the best. We want this country to be filled with people who appreciate and revere its history and recognize the opportunities that everybody living here has.<\/p>\n<p>We want people who will explain the opportunities, expand upon them, not run them down, not rip them to shreds. Stop and think of this. The Democrat Party, the American left, has spent the last two generations doing what? Well, among many things they\u2019ve been trying to raise the self-esteem of our children, right? \u201cThe self-esteem of our children is crucial, Mr. Limbaugh. We have too many bullies, too much unfairness,\u201d and so we\u2019ve been out there telling these kids, \u201cYou\u2019re wonderful, little Johnny,\u201d when little Johnny hadn\u2019t done anything yet to be wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Little Johnny\u2019s team can\u2019t win a game so we don\u2019t keep score for little Johnny\u2019s team. Little Johnny can\u2019t pass the exam to join the fire department, so we lower the standards so little Johnny can. All to raise little Johnny\u2019s self-esteem. Then what happens? After we spend two generations raising all these people\u2019s self-esteem, the same people come long and tell them their country sucks and that they have no hope and that they have no chance in this country.<\/p>\n<p>This country\u2019s filled with racists and bigots and sexists and homophobes and all that. Little incongruous, if you ask me. Building up everybody\u2019s self-esteem, &#8220;You\u2019re so wonderful. You\u2019re the best. You\u2019re just wonderful. There\u2019s nobody like you.&#8221; And we come along and then what do we tell them they\u2019re up against? Hopelessness \u2019cause they live in a hellhole.<\/p>\n<p>This raises some stuff. I\u2019ve about reached my limit in patience with it. It\u2019s been part of the daily fabric of the Democrat Party for as long as I\u2019ve been alive. I would think by now people would have just learned to ignore it because it\u2019s so commonly alleged. But then you have to remember that there\u2019s a new generation of people born every 20 years, every 20, 25 years, and they\u2019ve not heard it. To them it\u2019s brand-new. They\u2019re in their teens or twenties, it\u2019s something brand-new to them.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Owings Mills, Maryland. This is Darren. Great to have you. You\u2019re up first today, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s great to talk to you once again. You know, the whole word &#8220;racist&#8221; or &#8220;racism,&#8221; it\u2019s being overused and it\u2019s worn out. It\u2019s like a dirty baseball that\u2019s being constantly thrown around, and it\u2019s being done out of desperation. Look, Rush, I\u2019m a black American, and I\u2019m called racist. I\u2019m called racist because of my conservative ideas, my conservative principles. I have&#8230; The majority of the time, I have whites calling me racist and then I have blacks calling me Uncle Tom.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing is that racism has really lost its whole purpose, and all of them think that racism or being a racist has something to do with disagreeing with someone of the opposite color or whatever the case may be. And it has everything to do&#8230; Racism, that if you believe your race is more superior than other race, and you believe that you should control that race &#8212; just like with slavery &#8212; then that is the proper definition of being a racist or racism. It\u2019s not the fact of being a white person disagreeing with a black person\u2019s philosophy or principle or vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DemocratplaybookRACISM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DemocratplaybookRACISM.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DemocratplaybookRACISM-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>RUSH: That\u2019s very shrewd of it because that\u2019s exactly what racism has become. Disagreeing with a women is sexism &#8212; a woman in politics. Disagreeing with an African-American or a person or color, a minority? That\u2019s racism. That\u2019s exactly what it has become, and it really was amplified during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama knew it; he used it; he capitalized on it; he encouraged it. It was divisive as it can be, and we\u2019re still suffering from it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You know, and I wanted to say this: I think the reason why racism is constantly being used is because there is a fear of name-calling. There is a fear of being called prejudiced. There is a fear of being called bigoted, even though you\u2019re not. But the mere fact of someone throwing that word at you or throwing the word of being intolerant or homophobic, people cringe and they\u2019re (sputtering), &#8220;I &#8212; I &#8212; I don\u2019t want you to tell me that! I don\u2019t want you to say that I am! I\u2019ll&#8230; I\u2019ll do whatever you need, just don\u2019t call me these words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And President Trump, I love him. I love him. And what he\u2019s doing is he\u2019s using it on them. &#8220;If you\u2019re gonna call me racist, I\u2019m gonna call you racist, and we can go back and forth with this. We can play this game.&#8221; What he\u2019s doing with The Squad, it\u2019s absolutely brilliant. I love him. I was the first one to say, &#8220;Listen,&#8221; when he\u2019s coming out of the escalator, &#8220;that man\u2019s gonna be elected,&#8221; and he\u2019s gonna surpass in 2020 brilliantly. So I do appreciate all that you\u2019ve done, and I appreciate all that the president is continuously doing. He\u2019s just a fantastic guy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you called, Darren. Thank you very much. You\u2019re right on the money. Racism has become something else, though, now too. By the way, I wish he was right. My sentiment is &#8212; and I\u2019m sure those of you who are my age, you\u2019ve heard it your whole life. But he\u2019s right about something. When somebody calls you that, you don\u2019t want to be called that. I remember the first time it happened to me after this program began. This is 30-plus years ago. I didn\u2019t have near the experience then with any of this that I have now.<\/p>\n<p>And there was palpable fear among the accusation partners. &#8220;Oh, my God! You can\u2019t let that stand. If that sticks, we\u2019re done! If they portray you as a race, it\u2019s over!&#8221; They were right. Once the label sticks to you&#8230; It has been used so effectively against Republican politicians. They will not criticize. They wouldn\u2019t criticize Obama. They won\u2019t criticize the Congressional Black Caucasians. They won\u2019t criticize Black Lives Matter. They want everybody to think they marched in Selma along with all the others, because they don\u2019t want to go there. They don\u2019t want to have to try to defend themselves again it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I no longer&#8230; (sigh) It doesn\u2019t register with me, but I\u2019m different. I\u2019m fortunate. I\u2019ve got an audience of multiple millions of people who know that it isn\u2019t true. Most people don\u2019t have that. You got your inner circle. You\u2019ve got your friends and so forth. But those of you who I depend on &#8212; and I don\u2019t say that lightly &#8212; for the success of this program, you know the truth. So the allegation bounces off. Where it does have effect is on people that don\u2019t listen to the program. But, gee, it\u2019s about time! (sigh) It\u2019s worn out, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Adam Schiff, Pencil Neck &#8220;Trump has decided racism is good politics.&#8221; President Trump\u2019s &#8220;go back&#8221; remark in the workplace might be illegal, says the Associated Press. Racism is good politics. 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