RUSH: Here\u2019s Linda again in Daytona Beach, Florida. It\u2019s great that you waited, and I appreciate the patience. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Of course I would wait for you, Rush, and I plan on listening to you for another 20-plus years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I get the importance of that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Wow. I\u2019m getting to the point where I wouldn\u2019t blame the president for saying “the heck with it.” He and his family have been going through hell for a largely ungrateful country, and the Democrats continue to say the president isn\u2019t above the law, but it seems like the Democrats can commit crimes with impunity and get away with it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, the Democrats do seem to be above the law.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Nobody\u2019s trying to stop them. The Republicans are like feckless. I\u2019m devastated for our country and for our president. What can we do to fix it besides vote for him again? I\u2019m like on the verge of tears for my country.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, I am too. You know, you said something here about the president and his family, they don\u2019t need this. And almost an hour ago, 45 minutes ago I got a call that normally would have been an Open Line Friday kind of call, but the guy asked me — stick with me here, Linda. Don\u2019t go away. The call\u2019s not over. The guy said, “You know, Rush –” and he\u2019s talking about my cancer diagnosis, maybe some other things.<\/p>\n
He said, “You\u2019ve been doing this for over 30 years. You don\u2019t need to do this. Why are you still in this fight? You don\u2019t have to be. There\u2019s all kinds of things you could be doing. And why are you still doing it, you know, when you don\u2019t have to?” And you said the same thing about Trump. And it is, I think, one of the most important points that can be made. He didn\u2019t need any of this, ever. He had a great life. Any of us would have loved to have been Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re patriots.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Prior to 2016. I mean, here\u2019s the guy that was on top of his world, and he had his family involved in his business, and he was a well-known and popular television personality with the TV show The Apprentice, and he runs for president because he really thinks the country\u2019s on the way to being destroyed. He\u2019s got his slogan Make America Great Again. And you\u2019re right, there hasn\u2019t been, outside of his base, there hasn\u2019t been one significant show of appreciation for what he has put up with in any of the last four years.<\/p>\n
If there\u2019s anybody who is the epitome of “he didn\u2019t need to do this,” it\u2019s Donald Trump. This is not making him wealthier. It has not made him more popular. I mean, he has been subjected to things that most human beings cannot even imagine. The media anal exam is never ending with Donald Trump. They are personally, literally trying to destroy him and his family and his children, his kids. And yet he continues to plug away. He continues to get up every day and do it.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been anybody else — I don\u2019t know enough to know this for sure. I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s any other Republican who could put up with what Trump gets for even a week. I think you\u2019d have people begging to give up, sue for peace, stop it, stop it, I\u2019ll agree with you, whatever. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody who could be doing it. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s enough appreciation for Trump as it is, even among people who are supporting him.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: There isn\u2019t. It\u2019s sad. And you\u2019re a patriot and Donald Trump\u2019s a patriot, and that\u2019s what makes me so sad is that there are people who truly love this country, including myself and my family, and it\u2019s devastating.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is. And he\u2019s going it alone. He doesn\u2019t even have a sizable percentage of the Republican Party behind him for whatever crazy reasons. You got these Never Trump Republicans out there. Folks, do you realize some of these Never Trump Republicans, who you probably have donated to in the past, you\u2019ve donated to their magazines before they went bust, these Never Trump guys that did the cruises after every election to tell you how they were going to maintain conservatism as the prominence of the Republican Party. These guys, these Never Trumpers are now purposely trying to secure the defeat of all Republicans in the Senate.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want just Trump to lose. These people are now hoping that the Republicans lose everything in November, the White House and the Senate and the House. They believe that the only way to reconstitute the Republican Party as a relevant, meaningful political organization is to have it wiped out as it currently exists and start from scratch, obviously with them at the helm.<\/p>\n
Now, you tell me what kind of sense it makes that these clowns think that they are the rightful heirs to a Republican Party they now seek to destroy? It\u2019s Looney Tunes. But that\u2019s what they\u2019re advocating. That the Republicans lose everything, that the Republican Party basically get wiped out, starting with Trump and then the Senate. Thank you very much, Linda.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: On the business of Trump and the Republicans, I need to make a distinction here, folks. Trump might not have a whole bunch of elected Republicans behind him, which, believe me, it\u2019s been something that\u2019s frustrated me since Inauguration Day 2017. But his support from rank-and-file Republican voters is still higher than any president on record.<\/p>\n
Trump has the full-fledged support of over 90% of registered Republican voters. He doesn\u2019t have, likewise, similar support from elected Republicans, say, in the House or in the Senate. The only president that had higher percentage of support was George W. Bush for a few weeks after 9\/11. But that leveled off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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