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RUSH: “CNN Ponders Trump 2020: ‘What Is the Magic That He Doles Out?\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, this dovetails with the frustration that they\u2019re feeling. They know that they\u2019re a bunch of Wile E. Coyotes now, that everything has been essentially a bomb that\u2019s blown up in their faces. And they\u2019re finally starting to ask something they should have asked before the election in 2016. How\u2019d this guy get the nomination? What the hell did we miss here?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But their arrogance was such that they couldn\u2019t go there. They could not treat Trump seriously. Therefore, they couldn\u2019t seriously analyze what he had just achieved. He\u2019d become the Republican nominee. That\u2019s not an easy thing to do, particularly somebody who\u2019s not a professional politician who is up against a candidate — Jeb Bush had a hundred million dollars starting the primary season.<\/p>\n

Trump had zip. He had his own organization and his own money. And not once did any of the professional political consults or operatives in either party take even a day to try to figure it out. All they did was continue to insult Trump and his supporters. And they continued to operate on the belief that he had no prayer. There was no way he was gonna win. Hillary can\u2019t be beat. We got Google doing things for us. We got Facebook doing things for us. We got the Clintons doing things; we got Obama. She can\u2019t lose! And then they add Trump to the equation, especially to the orange guy, she can\u2019t lose!<\/p>\n

Because in their minds this guy\u2019s the biggest buffoon that has ever come out of New York City. Well, he wins. And not until this week — and we\u2019re coming up on the three-year anniversary of the election in November — not until this week are they actually starting to ask why and how. Their entire existence from election night forward has been devoted to trying to pretend that what happened didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been trying to run Trump out of office. They\u2019ve been trying to redo the election results. They have been trying to disqualify the election results, everything they can think of, rather than trying to figure out how he did it.<\/p>\n

Now, you would think this is the height of irresponsibility. These are people in the business to do what? Get votes and raise money. That\u2019s the primary job of political operatives. They are to get their candidates\u2019 name in the victory column. They think they know how to do it, they all know how to do it. The Republicans and Democrats are all in the same club. There\u2019s the same blue book, the same textbook, it all involves fundraising, it all involves finding the get-out-the-vote schemes, whatever it is.<\/p>\n

Trump comes along totally outside the box, outside the blueprint, outside the textbook, outside whatever models there are, and they can\u2019t figure it out, and they don\u2019t even try to. Such is their arrogance and conceit. They stay cemented to the notion that it was not possible. They do not take one step toward reality. And that\u2019s why all of this stuff has blown up on them, folks. And it\u2019s been hilarious to watch.<\/p>\n

They really thought Andrew Weissmann, by now, would have sent Trump to jail after a scorching interrogation in an impeachment trial in the Senate. And now nobody can find Weissmann. Now Mueller doesn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in his own report. Nadler and his crowd in the House have totally, totally botched this whole attempt at impeachment. Pelosi\u2019s thanking the gods somewhere that they didn\u2019t go forward with it officially.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Trump is running rings around them. And all they\u2019ve got, all they\u2019ve got to give them solace is the polls that they make up that shows Trump\u2019s approval numbers are 42, 44, disapproval, 50, 55. And yet he keeps outsmarting them. So we get to the CNN story yesterday. “What\u2019s the magic?” What is it that he doles out? How does he do it?<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone magazine published an article recently called: \u201cTrump 2020: Be Very Afraid.<\/a>\u201d It carries the following subtitle: \u201cAmerica is the first country to ever elect a Mad King, and the way things are going, we may be dumb enough to do it twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Mad King is a reference to some lunatic former king in Game of Thrones. Basically killed all of his subjects, his daughter came along and burned the whole town down in the series finale. The Mad King. Some clown named Targaryen. That\u2019s who Trump is being compared to here. And if the American people don\u2019t wise up, they may reelect him.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s a Mad King. He\u2019s insane. He kills his enemies. That\u2019s how he does it. The author of this Rolling Stone piece, a guy named Matt Taibbi. He is the son of a guy in New York named Mike Taibbi, who was a street reporter for WCBS-TV Eyeball News 2 in New York. I\u2019m just telling you who the guy is.<\/p>\n

He sat down on CNN Tuesday morning, and among other things, said, “The enthusiasm at Trump\u2019s campaign events this year is even greater than it was in 2016, and reporters who cover Trump are not explaining it.\u201d So Matt Taibbi is basically saying you people are not even yet trying to figure this out guy. His rallies are bigger, they\u2019re more exciting, they\u2019re more fun-filled, thrill-packed, there are more people outside than inside, and you\u2019re still not talking about it. He\u2019s very, very frustrated.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s Alisyn Camerota, the infobabe hosting Taibbi in the interview said, \u201cWhat is the magic that Trump doles out?\u201d And Matt Taibbi said, \u201cWell, it\u2019s a lot of things. Trump is appealing on a lot of levels that we don\u2019t write about. I mean, race is obviously part of it, but class is another thing that\u2019s a huge thing. I mean, Trump doesn\u2019t get credit in a lot of ways for being a very canny politician.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would dispute even this. He\u2019s canny. He is smart as a whip. He is clever, and he\u2019s way ahead of people, but he\u2019s not a politician, and that\u2019s why these people don\u2019t get him. And they can\u2019t accept the idea that a nonpolitician could ever come in and upend their business the way he has. In their world, only one of them should be able to do this.<\/p>\n

Now, it may be a fine line when I say he\u2019s not a politician, because a CEO can be a politician. A talk show host can be a politician in terms of the way you deal with interoffice affairs or whatever. But what Taibbi means, he\u2019s not a professional, gets elected as his job politician. He doesn\u2019t raise money for his job as a politician. He does it as a businessman. It\u2019s an entirely different prospect.<\/p>\n

In Trump\u2019s world you can succeed being hated. In their world you can\u2019t. That\u2019s what they don\u2019t understand. How could a guy so universally hated and reviled — and they\u2019re wrong about how universally reviled he is. But this is what they ask themselves. How can somebody so universally disgusting and reviled get elected? That\u2019s not the question.<\/p>\n

The question\u2019s the wrong question, and it betrays all of their bias and their ignorance and their lack of understanding of who Trump is. I don\u2019t think they have the humility to ever be able to answer the question, “What is the magic that he doles out?” What is the magic, by the way? Is it even magic, or is it just a word that they would never associate with Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

Humility.<\/p>\n

You tell them that the secret to Donald Trump\u2019s success is humility and they\u2019re gonna think you are nuts. They\u2019re gonna think I am nuts. That is the last thing in the world they could possibly associate with Donald Trump. He\u2019s an ogre. He\u2019s a braggadocious buffoon. He\u2019s a narcissist. He doesn\u2019t care about other people. He\u2019s a white supremacist. These are all the things they think Trump is and that they think everybody else thinks that way of Trump, but obviously the people that vote for him don\u2019t.<\/p>\n