{"id":354302,"date":"2020-06-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=354302"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:31:21","slug":"trumps-path-to-reelection-defend-the-american-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/29\/trumps-path-to-reelection-defend-the-american-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Path to Reelection: Defend the American Way of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson has a piece. I gotta share this with you, at least some elements of it, some pull quotes, because it dovetails with a point that I made on Friday that is really, really, really well done here. The headline… His piece appears, by the way — it ran yesterday — at American Greatness, the website American Greatness. The headline: “Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage.”<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The subheadline is: “The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers and lose the country.” So the essence of my point on Friday (repeated here by Mr. Hanson) is, “The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump [is gonna] crush the lawlessness,” push back against it, be seen as not tolerant of it, and thus “win swing voters to his side…”<\/p>\n

You want to know how to do it? The swing vote, what is it, about 6%? The swing vote, 6%\u2019s what I see that it is. Swing vote, the independents, the great middle. These are generally said to be 20% of the electorate. You\u2019ve got 20% undecided, 40% Republican, 40% Democrat. So it\u2019s the undecided, the 20% everybody campaigns for, theoretically. Well, that number\u2019s down to 6% now. Trump\u2019s gotta get most of it.<\/p>\n

Who are they? He\u2019s got to get the undecideds, he\u2019s got to get the swing voters, and the way Mr. Hanson thinks he\u2019s gotta do it is to push back against this. But as I pointed out on Friday, he\u2019s got a real dilemma, because the people that he would be pushing back for do not want the help. Democrat governors. Blue state governors and mayors in Washington and Oregon, in Illinois, in New York City, in Minnesota, they don\u2019t want the help.<\/p>\n

They want the unrest. They couldn\u2019t care less about the economic circumstances for the people that live in their states right now, because they think, if they could just hold on in November, if they can just keep the shutdowns due to the coronavirus in place — New Jersey, too, keep \u2019em shut down all the way through October-November — then they could finally get Trump. They could finally get him out of there.<\/p>\n

Trump knows this. In addition to that, how many of these Pentagon generals have come out and essentially said that Trump\u2019s not fit? (summarized) “Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. Trump used me for that fellowship in the church and I resented it and I shouldn\u2019t have done it.” So the people who would benefit from the pushback Trump needs to engage in to win the swing voters are people that don\u2019t want him anywhere in the state, blue state governors and mayors.<\/p>\n

That puts us in uncharted waters, when blue state officials do not mind all of this violence all around them, when they don\u2019t care about it — or at least they\u2019ve run the cost-benefit analysis, and they\u2019ve figured out that it serves their interests to keep this chaos and violence going through November, that that is preferable to a restoration of law and order.<\/p>\n

\"\"Trump must be seen as law and order. He has got to be seen as restoring it. But the places it\u2019s still happening are Democrat strongholds that do not want Trump to succeed. So what\u2019s he to do? You know, one moment, middle class white kids get in the face of police — black police — screaming obscenities, taunting them. Have you seen the video of this? It\u2019s the most childish, ungodly thing.<\/p>\n

Pony tailed, white, college-educated, college-age women just getting in the face of these black cops, and they look like they\u2019re baying as wolves. They\u2019re shouting and they\u2019re calling them names, racist names, everything you can think of. They\u2019re shrieking like stuck pigs at them. The police begin to march forward and push \u2019em back — and, by the way, the police have had success.<\/p>\n

You know what works? You know what\u2019s working? Throwing fireworks into the mob. Throwing the fireworks into the mob is like spraying Raid underneath your sink in the kitchen. The cockroaches just scatter. You ever done that? Have you ever sprayed Raid under there, and you\u2019ve been depressed to see how many cockroaches you\u2019ve got? They set off fireworks, and these protesters just scatter like a bunch of roaches and vermin.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Hanson writes, “Just when you thought these anarchists were real revolutionaries who would retire to the Rockies and Sierras … to continue their war on the corporate state, they seem terrified of being arrested, and charged with resume-staining racketeering or felonious assault. [T]hey prove petite bourgeois careerists, not Bolsheviks on the barricades.<\/p>\n

“Hollywood central casting could not have dreamed up more audio-visually off-putting characters. The distance between them and the unjustified death of George Floyd is now a vast abyss.” What he\u2019s saying is these are a bunch of phonies. They\u2019re a bunch of pretenders. They\u2019re out there making themselves feel relevant and good. They\u2019ve got nothing to do with George Floyd.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They have no idea who he was, how he lived. They know nothing about him. “The distance between them and the unjustified death of George Floyd is now a vast abyss,” and Dinesh D\u2019Souza is out today with a tweet<\/a> or maybe… I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a tweet or if it\u2019s a Facebook post or whatever, but it\u2019s a picture of a bunch of these anarchists, and he makes the point…<\/p>\n

Here it is. What is this? It\u2019s a twit. I\u2019m sorry, Twitter. He says, “When I look at #Antifa mug shots I\u2019m struck by how ugly these people are. I wondered, why are they so full of rage? Then it hit me. They are protesting their own ugliness,” and then there\u2019s nine of them here, and they are pretty ugly. But, my friends, again, you know, I was the first to arrive at this observation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Undeniable Truth of Life number 24: “Feminism was established in part so as to allow unattractive women easy access to the mainstream of society.” My point was that the early feminists were simply ticked off that their physical appearance, they thought, held \u2019em back. They weren\u2019t attractive in the mainstream sense — and therefore, they weren\u2019t oogled and ogled and all that, and they resented it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That\u2019s what Dinesh is saying about these Antifa people: “They\u2019re protesting their own ugliness.” I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true in the case of the Antifa people, but I believe it was with the early, early feminazis. But whatever it is, obviously these people feel — what\u2019s the term? — distanced from the mainstream. Just like the multiculturalists who took over the curriculum in American schools.<\/p>\n

The main thing was they were ticked off that, in their own minds, they didn\u2019t fit in for whatever reason. It was time to take it out on America, time to take it out and get revenge for whatever it was that made them outcasts. And Dinesh\u2019s theory on the Antifa mob is the same thing, essentially. Whatever it is, whatever made them mad, they have been led to it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been indoctrinated into it, and they\u2019ve all fallen for it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hanson really believes… He says, “Are Americans supposed to take seriously the corporate leftist media, when one moment the mindless anchors are reading the same scripted … talking points about systematic NASCAR racism, the suffering of Bubba Wallace, and hyping a garage door pull-rope as if they were discussing the Dred Scott case?” For crying out loud!<\/p>\n

“And in the next Jussie Smollett moment, after the narrative is discredited, they of course move on to a … farce, along the lines of what really did not happen, most surely could have happened, and thus in a sense did happen? So each day, ill-defined groups of Americans silently drift into the ‘I can\u2019t take this insanity anymore\u2019 camp.<\/p>\n

“The polls assure us that it is not so. The media praises the basement strategy of an addled Biden. The op-ed writers gleefully preen that Trump is [finished] — and perhaps he could be if he stays portrayed as ineffectively dealing with the recession, the virus, and the violence.” He\u2019s gotta deal with these things.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doug in Denver. It\u2019s great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, I\u2019m doing well! Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, listen, my wife and I pray for you every night. I\u2019m a cancer survivor, but I got three things I want to say, and then I\u2019m gonna hang up because you\u2019re smart; you got a lot of smart people on listening to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Here\u2019s what I think. Number one: Washington, D.C. People who voted for Trump in 2016 want to see President Trump say, “There will be no statues comin\u2019 down in Washington, D.C. This is our nation\u2019s capital. It will not happen here.” Number two. We want our president to say to the people of Minneapolis, to Seattle, to Atlanta, to New York:<\/p>\n

\"\"“Your governor may not take care of you. He may not care about your rights, but I do — and if necessary, I will nationalize National Guard troops and bring them into your capital cities to restore law and order because your governor will not.” And then, number three. Get rid of any general immediately. Any insubordination must not be tolerated by President Trump. It is all part of the deep state. I\u2019m a former naval officer. I went to school with Ollie North. I know these guys. They are politicians. They may wear stars, but they are politicians —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some of them are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and insubordination will not be tolerated by our military.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some of them really are. We have warrior generals, we have warrior admirals, and we got political generals and admirals. You\u2019re absolutely right. What I hear Doug saying here, if I could synthesize all three of his points — and I\u2019m not trying to delineate them, combine them. What he\u2019s saying here is that Trump voters expect the president to maintain the American way of life.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s under assault here. That is what we are all facing, is an assault and attack on the American way of life, which is one of the finest ways of life humanity has ever devised for itself. Hands down. No contest. It\u2019s better than socialism. It\u2019s better than communism. It\u2019s better than Marxism and Leninism. It\u2019s better than anything! It\u2019s better than a monarchy. It\u2019s better than anything that\u2019s ever been tried, the American way of life.<\/p>\n

\"\"The proof is that people from every corner of this planet still to this day are trying to get in. It\u2019s all the proof that you need. So this is Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s piece today essentially, Doug, what you were saying. The president has got to convey that he understands what the country faces and that he is the last line of defense, and that he cannot tolerate dissension in his own ranks. But I\u2019ll tell you, Doug, he does have…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a problem that I do not envy him having.<\/p>\n

He goes into these states where you\u2019re gonna send the National Guard, and those governors don\u2019t want it, and they may refuse it. And then, you know, Trump\u2019s gonna be very cognizant, “How\u2019s that gonna look?” How\u2019s it gonna look if these generals that you mention actually say they\u2019re quitting — or, worse, run an actual coup against him? So he\u2019s gotta be mindful of all this while maintaining his base and that enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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