{"id":318548,"date":"2019-08-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=318548"},"modified":"2019-08-09T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:26:30","slug":"the-great-backfire-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/08\/the-great-backfire-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Backfire Is Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It is upon us. I\u2019ll tell you what. I\u2019m gonna continue the theme that I began yesterday at this very moment, 24 hours ago, essentially saying that &#8212; because I\u2019ve got backup now &#8212; the support for Donald Trump is actually growing out there, and much of it because of this insanity and lunacy that has taken over. I actually believe&#8230; When I see Joe Biden say what he\u2019s saying about Trump doesn\u2019t denounce the KKK when Trump has denounced the KKK, I think&#8230; When I see Tim Ryan marching at the Turtle\u2019s house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-SITYS-060418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-SITYS-060418.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-SITYS-060418-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get this. These violent protesters show up in McConnell\u2019s house; there\u2019s a presidential candidate, Tim Ryan, that joins them. Now, just last week he was warning the Democrats (paraphrased), &#8220;Don\u2019t do this radical, leftist stuff or we\u2019re gonna lose.&#8221; He\u2019s afraid of being eaten by this revolution. I think the Democrats that you might call mainstream &#8212; and I realize that that\u2019s kind of a&#8230; We have to have that broad definition, \u2019cause I don\u2019t really think there are any, but you have some who are not as radical left as the base is.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re being swallowed up. They\u2019re being eaten by this revolution, and they are being forced to join it. So Tim Ryan is going to the Turtle\u2019s house. So you know what the Turtle did? The Turtle had some people videotape the rioters, videotape the protesters, and put it on his Twitter account &#8212; and Twitter is banning McConnell! Twitter is banning McConnell because McConnell posted video of riots and protests in violation of Twitter\u2019s rules or regulations. The people who protested and who did the riots, they are free to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Tim-Ryan-MSNBC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Tim-Ryan-MSNBC.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Tim-Ryan-MSNBC-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, my contention is that even though you don\u2019t see any evidence of it out there, unless you look, this stuff is &#8212; and I don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s been backfiring on them, but it is beginning to backfire and it is backfiring on the media. If you were here yesterday, you remember. I tried to essentially thread the needle here in talking about Trump supporters who are just watching all this stuff and seething. They are getting angry. I am! Like I said yesterday, I\u2019m a typical Trump supporter, and I am enraged by all this. Now, I have a microphone; I come here and tell you.<\/p>\n<p>But most people don\u2019t. They are quietly seething. They\u2019re talking to each other about it. But they\u2019re not being reported on. As far as the Drive-By Media\u2019s concerned, everybody hates Trump. Everybody thinks Trump\u2019s a white supremacist. The whole country thinks the Republican Party\u2019s a bunch of racist bigots, and it isn\u2019t the case. I want to expand on that a little bit today because, strangely enough, there is backup. And strangely enough, do you know where I found this backup? I found this backup in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a section of the New York Times called Upshot or something. It\u2019s, I guess, the Millennial equivalent of an op-ed page. I\u2019m not quite sure what it is. And the guy that wrote this piece&#8230; I\u2019m gonna destroy his career here, and I\u2019m gonna probably cause this guy to get doxed and attacked and so forth. His name is Nate Cohn. You know what? I will not spell his last name, making it harder for people to find it. That is my concession to Nate Cohn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/07\/upshot\/trump-approval-rating-rise.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-NY-Times-080819-Upshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-NY-Times-080819-Upshot.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-NY-Times-080819-Upshot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I will help him stay hidden by not spelling his last name, although angry leftist revolutionaries will be able to find him without any problem. He\u2019s got this big piece in the New York Times section of Upshot. He &#8220;is the domestic correspondent for The Upshot. Covers elections, polling demographics&#8230; Before joining The Times, [he was] a staff writer for The New Republic&#8230;&#8221; Here\u2019s the subhead&#8230; No, let me give you the headline first. The headline: &#8220;Don\u2019t Assume Trump\u2019s Approval Rating Can\u2019t Climb Higher. It Already Has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what? The New York Times&#8230;? Now, this story, by the way, is from yesterday. It might have been published last night for today\u2019s paper. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/07\/upshot\/trump-approval-rating-rise.html\">Don\u2019t Assume Trump\u2019s Approval Rating Can\u2019t Climb Higher. It Already Has.&#8221; Wanna hear the subhead? &#8220;Millions of Americans who did not like the president in 2016 now say they do.<\/a>&#8221; Yes, my friends, do not doubt me. I\u2019m telling you that these leftist revolutionaries are creating a counterrevolution that they don\u2019t see, that they are unaware of.<\/p>\n<p>You and many people are seething with rage and anger over this all day long, and I think this story is about the quiet support Trump has and how it\u2019s reflected in polling if you know how to look at the poll results. Now, Nate Cohn here tries to couch the information because, I mean, he you can\u2019t go overboard. My point is, this story is not as declaratively positive for Trump as it could be because Mr. Cohn is afraid himself that the revolutionaries will eat him!<\/p>\n<p>He tries to couch his information and downplay it a little, \u2019cause I guarantee you that he and the Democrat presidential candidates and any number of other people in the media are scared to death of the zombies making up the New York Times audience having a meltdown and wanting to basically swallow him up and spit him out. Do not doubt me on this! Now, I\u2019m gonna explore this in greater detail here in just a minute.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I was just watching &#8212; collecting information, cataloging it. I was watching the reactions from people whose names were published by Joaquin Castro, who is the twin brother of Julian Castro of the radical Castro family, a communist mom and dad down there in San Antonio. And you know, Joaquin Castro published an ad&#8230; He\u2019s the guy running his brother Julian\u2019s presidential campaign. They\u2019re nonidentical twins.<\/p>\n<p>He publishes this ad supposedly of Trump donors, and they\u2019re trying to tie these people to these shootings! These are San Antonio businessowners and people, and the Castros run this ad. They also inadvertently published the names of some of their donors. You know, a lot of people contribute to both parties and both sides of the aisle, and some of these donors&#8230; This is another form of pushback that I\u2019m talking about. Some of these donors are livid that they\u2019re being linked to this!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Castro brothers say, &#8220;No, no, no! That was not our point.&#8221; Well, what was your point? Why did you publish that list of names? &#8220;Well, well, we just we just think people need to know.&#8221; For what reason? &#8220;We\u2019re not we\u2019re not trying to cause any violence to be visited on these people.&#8221; The hell you\u2019re not! You are certainly holding them up for ostracization and ridicule and you\u2019re hoping that people will boycott their businesses &#8212; or worse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080719-Trump-Supporter-Dayton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080719-Trump-Supporter-Dayton.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080719-Trump-Supporter-Dayton-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Some of these people whose name are not radical activists. They\u2019re just donors. You know, they donate because politics as a protection racket. So you donate to both sides, giving yourself insurance. No matter who wins, you\u2019re covered. And they find their names published on this ad being linked by the Castro brothers as having some responsibility for these white supremacist mass shootings if they donated to Trump. Now, these people&#8230; Many of these people are just livid about it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another example of backfire. Now, I\u2019m calling it backfire. The media isn\u2019t. This is key to understand. The media cannot bring itself in any way, shape, manner, or form to do anything other than promote all of this. They cannot attack any leftist. Nobody can. Nobody to the left can attack anything the left does because those revolutionaries are gonna come swallow \u2019em up. They all know it. It is unadulterated fear that is governing a lot of these presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Like Elizabeth Warren is doing a town hall in some farm field out in Iowa right now, and the crowd is so small they didn\u2019t even show it, and she\u2019s out there (saying,, &#8220;Yes I don\u2019t&#8230; I don\u2019t&#8230; No question about the president of the United States is a white supremacist.&#8221; So CNN\u2019s doing a panel; they\u2019re all applauding it! (clapping) &#8220;Elizabeth Warren, that\u2019s pretty sufficient lingo, man, to call the president of the United States a white supremacist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times double-checked with Elizabeth Warren, &#8220;Do you really mean to say that?&#8221; &#8220;I damn well meant to say that. He\u2019s a white supremacist! He\u2019s out there saying these are good people in Charlotte,&#8221; and all this stuff, lie after lie after lie. Now, I contend that not all of it, but part of this is because these candidates&#8230; You know, when I see Tim Ryan &#8212; who tried to save his party a little bit in the last debate. When I see him protesting with the mob at the Turtle\u2019s house, they\u2019re scared to death, folks. They\u2019re all scared of Twitter. They are scared.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying that if it weren\u2019t for the radical left base, these people wouldn\u2019t be as left-wing as they are. I\u2019m not saying that. They still hate Trump. They\u2019d be doing everything they could to get rid of Trump. They\u2019re still radical leftists. I\u2019m just telling you that it\u2019s a bunch of invisible of people, people that were not known &#8212; who are on Twitter for the most part &#8212; who have put fear, illegitimate, real fear in the hearts of all of these Democrats, including Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Here you have Joe Biden out there. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-under-fire-for-comments-on-segregationists-gave-eulogies-for-strom-thurmond-robert-byrd\">Biden, Under Fire for Comments on Segregationists, Gave Eulogies for Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd<\/a>.&#8221; This story is only from June 20th. Oh, how we have forgotten. But it wasn\u2019t that long ago that Biden was being ripped to shreds as a racist because he was singing the praises of these segregationist senators. Now look what Biden\u2019s doing. &#8220;Trump is the KKK,&#8221; says Biden! &#8220;Trump\u2019s friends are in the KKK.&#8221; What is happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is a key thing, and you\u2019re probably gonna doubt me. What is happening is that whoever this Democrat base is, when I say &#8220;invisible radicals on Twitter,&#8221; that is most of them. But not all of them are invisible and not all of them are anonymous. We know who some of them are. But the point is they are scaring all of these candidates. Like the media scares Republicans, the same thing is happening on the left, but it\u2019s a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s radical leftists. Potentially deadly and dangerous, violent leftist revolutionaries are scaring the hell out of Democrats who previous to this season have not expressed this degree of radicalism. Now, what that means is, in addition to many other things, they are all losing whatever authenticity they had. They have become an echo chamber, and they are all beginning to sound alike, and there\u2019s now a contest among these people on the left to see who can satisfy this crazed, leftist revolutionary gang the best and the fastest and the soonest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Silent-Majority-Trump-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Silent-Majority-Trump-Sign.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Silent-Majority-Trump-Sign-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I\u2019m just telling you, in politics, when you start sacrificing your authenticity &#8212; for whatever reason &#8212; you\u2019re toast, because people pick up on that, the fact that you\u2019re authentic or not. Hillary Clinton was not authentic. Everybody knew she wasn\u2019t authentic. Bill Clinton was seen as authentic. So was Barack Hussein O. Trump, in spades, is seen as authentic, and these people are sacrificing it. They are allowing it to be overwhelmed by their fear and the feeling of necessity they have to make sure they pose the proper way, to make sure they say and do whatever it takes to keep the crazed, left-wing revolutionaries away from them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to the New York Times story in a little bit more detail here. Again, it\u2019s by a man named Nate Cohn. &#8220;Don\u2019t Assume Trump\u2019s Approval Rating Can\u2019t Climb Higher. It Already Has.&#8221; If you go read this, what you\u2019re gonna find is this guy has really toned down what he thinks is a dangerous signal. There are bad warning signs for the left out there in the polling data he\u2019s analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>But he is really couching it so that he doesn\u2019t become a target, so that he doesn\u2019t get swallowed up and eaten by this ragtag bunch of people that descended on the New York Times earlier this week and threatened to cancel all their subscriptions because the headline they didn\u2019t like. So his subhead: &#8220;Millions of Americans who did not like the president in 2016 now say they do.&#8221; Can I tell you how much against the grain this runs in left-wing conventional wisdom? Left-wing conventional wisdom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s important to remember that they lie to each other and they believe their lies. Like in 2016, they all believed that Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. They believed their polls. They believe the bull that they tell each other. So the conventional wisdom among leftists is that everybody hates Trump, and that they are succeeding in causing people to abandon Trump. This stuff &#8212; this white supremacy, this white nationalism &#8212; has replaced Russian collusion, folks. That\u2019s now gone. That bombed out.<\/p>\n<p>There was never anything to it in the first place. But you know why it\u2019s gone? Because with white supremacy and white nationalism, you don\u2019t need any evidence, and you don\u2019t need a special counsel, and you don\u2019t need an investigation. You just need a whole bunch of making the allegation. And then you need your sycophantic media amplifying it all. You don\u2019t need two years and a bunch of leaks from a bunch of invisible intel community people to the New York Times claiming Trump colluded with Russia and all that.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need a fake dossier that can\u2019t be verified. You just need a bunch of people saying it. So white supremacy and white nationalism has replaced collusion in the ongoing effort to dislodge and get rid of Trump. In the process, these people have convinced themselves that they\u2019re succeeding. They have convinced themselves that people hate Trump. This is why Trump goes to El Paso and Dayton yesterday. You don\u2019t get factual stories about how much love there was for Trump. Do you want to see it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-El-Paso-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-El-Paso-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-El-Paso-001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>We<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/08\/08\/ive-never-seen-so-many-african-americans-look-so-happy-to-see-a-white-nationalist-ive-never-seen-so-many-women-so-happy-to-see-a-misogynist\/\"> posted a bunch of pictures at RushLimbaugh.com. Right there at the top of the home page<\/a>. You should go there. It\u2019s not for members only. Anybody can go. It\u2019s on the free side. When you go look at these pictures, you\u2019ll be amazed at how many African-Americans are happy and supportive of a white supremacist &#8212; and then you\u2019ll notice how many women are trying to get closer and closer to the president. They are smiling; they are gleeful. And what is he? &#8220;Why, he\u2019s a woman-hating misogynist,&#8221; they tell us.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t get these stories &#8212; you don\u2019t hear anything of the sort &#8212; because they can\u2019t afford to deal with the truth. They have to live in the fantasyland that they\u2019ve created where everybody hates Trump. More and more people hate Trump. People are abandoning Trump, because now people realize he\u2019s a white supremacist and so forth. Yet the polling data: &#8220;Millions of Americans who did not like the president in 2016 now say they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a double whammy. Trump\u2019s base is not abandoning him. Trump\u2019s base is seething over this. Trump\u2019s base is livid over this, and so are a lot of other people. So not only is Trump\u2019s base not abandoning him, a bunch of people who didn\u2019t like him in 2016 now do. So Mr. Cohn here is trying to warn these lunatics who need to be in institutions with men and women in little white coats supervising him. He\u2019s trying to tell them that it ain\u2019t good out there.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s gotta be very careful lest they come and kill him. I think part of the quiet support that Trump has is reflected in all polling, not just the polling that Mr. Cohn here has analyzed. Here\u2019s a pull quote: &#8220;And over the last few months, some of the highest-quality public opinion polls, though not all, showed the president\u2019s job approval rating &#8230; had inched up to essentially match the highest level of his term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-Dayton-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-Dayton-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-080819-Trump-Dayton-002-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>(Gasp!) What? How can that be when the media and the left think they have both finally destroyed Trump? Here\u2019s another pull quote: &#8220;It\u2019s true that the president\u2019s job approval rating has been unusually stable when compared with other presidents.&#8221; Whoa! W-w-wait. What? &#8220;It\u2019s true&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s true that the president\u2019s job approval rating has been unusually stable when compared with other presidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the possibility that he has lifted his ratings, however fleetingly, to match the highest levels of his presidency is a reminder that the ceiling on his support is higher than some may think.&#8221; This guy, he\u2019s already at the edge of the cliff! He\u2019s in a wheelchair and there\u2019s some Democrats about to push him over. He\u2019s gotta really couch this. But he\u2019s telling people, &#8220;It ain\u2019t what you think. You are not making Trump more unpopular, and you\u2019d being realize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he can\u2019t come out and say that, \u2019cause they\u2019ll cancel the subscription to the New York Times, and they\u2019ll hunt this guy down and make a movie about the hunt for Nate Cohn, and that\u2019s the end of him.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s David in Superior, Wisconsin. Great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. The combination of anger that this violent movie will create can only be (unintelligible). <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/08\/08\/hollywood-fantasy-film-depicts-liberals-elites-hunting-and-killing-deplorables\/\">I\u2019ve seen the trailer to the movie, and it is extraordinarily violent<\/a>. I believe I saw the woman who you named as DOTUS has got a dog collar on. And the dichotomy of this is that they get away with this. The left gets away with this, and we can\u2019t say a peep, or we get socially removed with all our Twitter accounts. All our social media has been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been fired from a position in the state because of my political and religious beliefs as a Christian. And so it\u2019s time now&#8230; And I want to emphasize the political part, because this two-word combination, and I believe you have maybe even said this or believe this. It has to be &#8220;political annihilation&#8221; of the current crop of Democrats. I know those are strong words, but they can\u2019t get through this and allow the growth of their ideals to destroy our country. They\u2019ll destroy it!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Electoral annihilation. I made that point just mere moments ago. You\u2019re absolutely right about that. It\u2019s an interesting thing, though. Here we have Mitch McConnell\u2019s Twitter account being suspended because he shows videos of the mob outside his house. These people, their Twitter accounts are not gonna be suspended and they\u2019re doing a movie on shooting us! Anyway, David, I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate that. It\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, if I may, I want to go back here to this New York Times piece, just to close the loop on this. Grab audio sound bite number 19 because it\u2019s gonna go with this. This is the Nate Cohn story at the New York Times in the&#8230; What\u2019s the name of the section? The Upshot section. He\u2019s actually warning Times readers (paraphrased), &#8220;Don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that Trump\u2019s support is abandoning him.&#8221; I do believe they think that they are accomplishing this.<\/p>\n<p>You know, these people live in a fantasy world, anyway, where they believe their own polling data, and they believe their own opinions represent that of the majority of people in the country. I think they are probably every night getting together with each other, patting each other on the back. &#8220;Great job today. Great job. Really! We\u2019re ostracizing Trump. We\u2019re marginalizing Trump. We gotta be sending Trump\u2019s voters away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then the approval numbers come out and they don\u2019t see that. So then they go to find another poll that shows Trump losing in certain swing states and then they convince themselves that they\u2019re succeeding. And this guy\u2019s point is, Unh-uh! &#8220;Millions of Americans who didn\u2019t like Trump in 2016 now say they do.&#8221; Let\u2019s examine that for a second. There can be two things at work here. You can have people who say they like Trump who really don\u2019t; they\u2019re just fed up with all of this. I think there is a certain number of people in that category.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know how many, but I think there\u2019s a certain number of people who may not have liked Trump or may have been ambivalent but wanted no part of Hillary Clinton. So the choice for Trump was not really an affirmative one; it was more a defensive choice, \u2019cause they really had passion against Hillary. And then I think there is a group of people that actively dislike Trump, who actively believed all the media garbage in the coverage of 2015-2016 and the Access Hollywood video.<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a lot of people that did not vote for Trump who really were convinced not to like him, and I think there\u2019s a large number of people in that group who have now seen the other side of the coin, and the results are undeniable. Don\u2019t forget, the people of this country were told, and they believed it, that our best economic days were in the past. They believed that life moving forward was a steady straight line, or maybe even a decline. They believed it because it was Obama who said so, and they trusted and they believed Obama. 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