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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, I mentioned an email I got from a friend yesterday and I didn\u2019t get to it, but now it may be somewhat timely. He said, “Rush, the backstory about this whistleblower — changed the rules for hearsay, collusion with the House Democrats. The whistleblower complaint doesn\u2019t match the actual transcript. Don\u2019t you think that ultimately this is gonna collapse because there\u2019s nothing in this that\u2019s true? It can\u2019t further their cause.<\/p>\n
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“Now they\u2019ve gone on recess and — despite the efforts of the media — it is going to impede their momentum.” This guy\u2019s an eternal optimist. I should have told you that he\u2019s an eternal optimist, and he doesn\u2019t understand… That\u2019s not the right way to put it. He is frustrated why so many Republicans are turning RINO. He\u2019s frustrated why so many Republicans in the Beltway do not understand the opportunity they have here because the Democrats are operating on lie after lie after lie that can be exposed.<\/p>\n
Now, this guy\u2019s realistic. He says, “Look, you and Fox News can\u2019t do this. The Republican Party\u2019s gonna have to do it. I mean, you help, don\u2019t misunderstand.” He doesn\u2019t want to hurt my feelings. He\u2019s basically asking what everybody on the phones the past two days has been asking — or, I could say, for the past 30 years! “Where are the Republicans in this?” is what he\u2019s asking me. I can\u2019t tell you the heated conversations I\u2019ve had with people that publish conservative magazines, trying to talk \u2019em off the ledge.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re ready to throw in the towel, Rush! I don\u2019t understand it. The right way to look at this is the Democrats have nothing! Whatever happened to confidence? Whatever happened to really realizing who\u2019s got the evidence and who doesn\u2019t?” And then he asked me a question: “Can you understand this defeatism? Rush, it\u2019s so predictable. Before all of this impeachment stuff happened, what was going on? Trump\u2019s polls were rising. His approval numbers were rising. Biden was getting in deep trouble.<\/p>\n
“The world was learning what we\u2019ve always known about Biden and his family and his corruption. So the Democrats run their misdirection play and this impeachment stuff, and the Republicans start cowering in the corners again!” You know, folks, it\u2019s not just Trump. They didn\u2019t come to George W. Bush\u2019s defense much, if you really stop and think about it. But neither did George W. Bush come to his own defense. So I wrote him back, \u2019cause I recognized my friend was in a world of hurt, and I can relate.<\/p>\n
My friend is an optimist here and thinks that as all this is happening that it\u2019s actually an opportunity for the Republicans to nail these people. “They\u2019re lying! They\u2019ve got nothing! They haven\u2019t had a thing on Trump ever, and they don\u2019t have anything on him now,” and he doesn\u2019t understand why all the defeatism. So here\u2019s the what I wrote back. I will share it with you, and it\u2019s nothing I haven\u2019t told you before. “I honestly believe that defeatism is the natural state of conservatives in Washington, the belief that they are second tier permanently.<\/p>\n
“Even after big electoral wins like Trump winning the presidency, they still don\u2019t accept themselves as winners. They don\u2019t know how to win, don\u2019t know how to act as winners, don\u2019t know how to go on offense. So this natural state of defeatism, this natural state of fatalism leads to a desire for acceptance from their betters in the top tier. So even after Trump wins, even after Republicans win the House, the Republicans still think it — and Washington, D.C., conservatives still have a defeated mind-set about it and still try to make the left like them.”<\/p>\n
I said, “That\u2019s the natural state. Now add Trump, somebody the top tier despises, and it intensifies this natural state of defeatism, depressing it further.” So you have this natural state that they are second-class citizens, that they are constantly the minority even when they win — and it\u2019s true, by the way. They\u2019re not wrong about it. They\u2019re wrong to have the attitude and not want to change it, but they\u2019re not wrong about how they\u2019re looked at.<\/p>\n
Remember what I told the Republican freshmen at orientation in 1994. I said, “You guys have just won the House for the first time in 40 years, and the media hates you for it. They are not going to be your friends. They\u2019re not gonna start treating you the way you\u2019ve always seen them treat Democrats. They\u2019re gonna treat you as temporary interlopers,” and when that great speech was over, there were two infobabes came up to me be with, one from the Washington Post, one from New York Times.<\/p>\n
“Do you really believe that?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Hell, yes, I do. I wouldn\u2019t have said it otherwise,” and they tried to make me think that I was nuts, which is what they try to do to every conservative. So when the top tier, when the left or the people that run Washington get even madder — when they become even meaner, when they become even more aggressive after a Republican wins — why, it just intensifies this fatalism that the right in Washington feels. So they have an attitude, “Even when we win we lose,” because they are total prisoners to the media.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re total prisoners to what the media says about them, the way the media talks about them. So the way they look at it, even when they win, they lose, because when they win the media hates them even more! And they come to recognize the peaceful state can be attained by losing. A peaceful life in Washington for the right wing can be had by losing. They\u2019re not a threat to the left, not nearly as big a threat. This was what I told the guy, and I believe it. I\u2019ve seen it!<\/p>\n
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This is not just an off-the-top-of-my-head reaction. It\u2019s the result of careful psychological study over the course of many years. I\u2019ve been perplexed like all of you have. After we win the House first time in 40 years or win the presidency with Trump, why is there no accompanying joy? Why is there no feeling of being on top of the mountain? Why is there no aggressive attitude to move forward now on the agenda the American people chose?<\/p>\n
Now, you throw Trump in the mix and you get all kinds of answers to that question because half the Republican Party doesn\u2019t like him, either. The establishment just doesn\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t matter about parties. But I told him. I said, “The people you\u2019re talking about, they don\u2019t see the world the way you do at all, my friend, and they haven\u2019t since this began. They don\u2019t think the country\u2019s in crisis. They don\u2019t think open-borders immigration is a problem.<\/p>\n
“They don\u2019t think the country\u2019s in crisis because of this massive, all-out attack on Trump and the Republican Party. To them, it\u2019s just politics as usual — and to a certain extent, they can understand it because they can understand why people don\u2019t like Trump. So there\u2019s nothing to counter their natural state of defeatism in this. All there is, is more and more daily evidence that their defeatism is warranted. They win.”<\/p>\n
Trump is having a great presidency! Trump is doing marvelous, magnificent things. This is what really, really, really bugs this guy that sent me this note. He is having a magnificent presidency with success not just on things he promised to look at and try to deal with and fix. He\u2019s having a magnificent presidency in terms of establishing America again as a great nation! This guy asks, “Isn\u2019t that what the American people vote for?<\/p>\n
“Why isn\u2019t there more unit on this? Why isn\u2019t there more acknowledgment of the great work that\u2019s being done?” It\u2019s because conservatives and Republicans literally know that their place in Washington isn\u2019t to win. Now, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. It doesn\u2019t include everybody. I mean, there\u2019s some that are exceptions to that. But where they live, everything\u2019s fine economically. Trump didn\u2019t need to fix anything.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not victimized by illegal immigration. They\u2019re not victimized by any of the cultural rot that\u2019s taking place outside the Beltway. I mean, the unemployment rate there is lower than the national average. Per capita income is way higher. So, I mean, there\u2019s no reason for people that live in that neighbor, per se, to think that anything is really out of whack or in crisis.<\/p>\n
And since they don\u2019t have to live in inland California or they don\u2019t have to live on the southern border, it may as well not be happening there. It doesn\u2019t affect them. So it\u2019s a frustrating thing. What can be done? This is why, you know, it\u2019s all about Trump.<\/p>\n
But again, Trump really is the stand-in for us. It is us who elected him and continue to support him that are the real ultimate targets, because even if Trump wins two terms, he\u2019s eventually gone. But the people that elected Trump are gonna be out there forever as long as they\u2019re alive, and then people will come along and join them and replace them, and that\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 ultimate target here, is to eliminate any and all opposition.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So Erick Erickson has tweeted the following. Now, when I… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Erick saying this. He is repeating what he\u2019s hearing other Republicans saying, okay? So don\u2019t jump in Erick\u2019s chili. Here we go: “Starting to encounter Republicans who wonder if maybe [Trump] should step aside for Pence.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re absolutely in the minority on the [Republican] side, but there does seem to be a fatigue setting in — tired of always fighting and always having to defend.” (chuckling) No excrement, Sherlock! This is exactly what I was trying to tell my friend. Our people see themselves as losers constantly. They are second tier! They are at peace… The most peaceful existence that conservatives in Washington have is when Republicans lose. That\u2019s when they are the least threat to the Democrats and the media.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when the media pressures them the least. That\u2019s when they don\u2019t have to defend anything. When the Republicans lose, what is there to defend? Draining the swamp? (chuckling) It might mean eliminating 90% of the population of that town, which I don\u2019t know is possible, obviously. So Erick Erickson says (summarized), “Yeah, Republicans — eh, some of them, it\u2019s not many, it\u2019s a minority right now — are thinking maybe Trump should step aside because they\u2019re tired of always fighting, always having to defend.”<\/p>\n
Do you ever think about winning? Do you ever think about pushing back and winning? Do you ever think about going on offense, so you don\u2019t have to defend? You\u2019ve got evidence on your side! Trump hasn\u2019t done diddly-squat! They\u2019re making it up! Everything the Democrats are doing is a lie! Did ever think about investigating them? Do you ever bout having hearings on Biden and his kid, for example, to use just the most recent example? Let me tell you what\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to scare anybody here, but, Erick, you need to tell these people that you are talking to you like this one simple fact: If they abandon Donald Trump, they\u2019re finished. If these Republicans that you\u2019re talking to are telling you (sobbing), “We\u2019re tired of being on defense all the time! We\u2019re tired.” You tell them that if they cave, they are never gonna win another national election in a generation, if ever. That it is over. Trump supporters will walk. They will abandon them.<\/p>\n
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The GOP will cease to exist, and the socialists and communists on the left will take over and that will be that — and that\u2019s exactly what the press wants. This is exactly what the Democrats in the media want. They want Republicans giving up and behaving as they normally do, as fatalistic losers! Losers with honor! Don\u2019t forget that. You\u2019ve heard that, have you not, Mr. Snerdley? “We must lose with dignity. We must lose with honor so the American people will see our moral superiority.” (Snort!) Moral superiority.<\/p>\n
I sometimes wonder if some of these Republicans wouldn\u2019t mind exactly that scenario. Just get rid of all these Trump supporters, get rid of all these Trump voters. Just get \u2019em out of the Republican Party, have \u2019em leave, and have the Republican Party represent maybe 20% of the country max and start over. I think it\u2019s what the Never Trumpers on the Republican side would actually love. I think they would love you Trump supporters walking out on the Republican Party, and if they could make that happen by abandoning Trump?<\/p>\n
(interruption) They don\u2019t need to win anything, is my point. You\u2019re not listening! They\u2019re happy when they lose! They\u2019re at peace when they lose! The Democrats are not attacking them when they lose! They don\u2019t have to defend anything when they lose! The Democrats let \u2019em come to the cocktail parties! The Democrats let \u2019em go to a congressional hearing! The Democrats let \u2019em play golf! The Democrats and the media leave them alone! They don\u2019t harass them when they lose!<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want to win anything. When you start looking at people who ask, “Why aren\u2019t the Republicans doing this? Why aren\u2019t the Republicans…? Why don\u2019t the Republicans…?” Well, because it doesn\u2019t look like the actions of people that want to win something. Who does, though? Donald Trump. Donald Trump exudes winners. He exudes winning as an attitude, as a human objective — and they resent the hell out of it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I knew this was gonna happen. “Rush, Rush, you fell for it. Erick Erickson\u2019s talking about his own thoughts. He\u2019s not talking about Republicans. He\u2019s a Never Trumper.” Folks, that\u2019s no concern. It doesn\u2019t matter if Erick\u2019s trying to put his own thoughts in the words of imaginary others or not. The point is that I\u2019ll guarantee you it\u2019s true. I\u2019ll guarantee you, that\u2019s my whole point in the monologue earlier about conservatives in Washington preferring to lose! It\u2019s hard work winning. It\u2019s hard work defending, it\u2019s so beneath us.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re at peace in Washington. You know, sue for peace, wish we had peace with the Soviets. What\u2019s the Democrat version of peace always been? What\u2019s the Soviet, what\u2019s the communist version of peace? How do they define peace? (interruption) No. The absence of opposition! Peace is the absence of opposition! That\u2019s what the Democrats seek! The Republicans want to give it to them! The absence of opposition.<\/p>\n
The Republicans think they\u2019re not gonna be put in jail, they\u2019re not gonna be sent to concentration camps. They\u2019re gonna be allowed to write for their nonexistent little conservative magazines or their guest shot on a supposedly conservative TV network and everything\u2019s fine and they\u2019ll be respected — somewhat — by the top tier.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not how we define peace. Because a mature person realizes there\u2019s always gonna be opposition because there\u2019s insanity and evil everywhere. But leftists, socialists, communists who believe in complete autocratic power believe in the absence of opposition, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against. And why in the world even have a Republican Party if they don\u2019t want to be in opposition?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Little test question. You think if like Erick Erickson\u2019s tweet, if Trump stepped aside and Pence became president, do you think the Democrats would stand down? Sorry, folks. That\u2019s not the way to deal with this. That would not happen. They would be coming for Pence next even bigger! See.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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