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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill, great to have you on the program today. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor, Rushbo. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, sometimes, you know, this Colorado thing, sometimes we, the American people, need to be protected from ourselves. You know, we have the most uninformed electorate, and they are — I can\u2019t believe it, but it\u2019s almost the same as if my 12-year-old child wanted to pilot a jet airliner that we were getting on, I would stop him. And I think that\u2019s what we need here, is some people stepping up, trying to stop somebody who I believe is not ready for the presidency.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a dangerously elitist view, to suggest that disenfranchisement of voters makes sense because the voters may be a bunch of Nimrods. That\u2019s a dangerous beginning. Where does that stop? I mean, I could make the case that everybody that votes for a Democrat\u2019s an idiot and ought not be allowed to because they\u2019re placing everything in great peril.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, you just said it Rush. (laughing).<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) You\u2019d go for that, huh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the thing is that we need someone who can run this country at this time, not on emotion, but with a real knowledge of the Constitution and to get us out of this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Wait, wait, wait. Hold it just a second now. You\u2019re obviously speaking against Trump, but can I ask you who, in either party, in recent years do you think has done a good job of running the country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m gonna have to go back to the old default, Reagan, because other than that, I see we\u2019ve really strayed —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, this is the way Trump supporters are looking at it. No matter who the establishment throws up it\u2019s just gonna be more of the same. It\u2019s gonna be more out-of-control spending. It\u2019s gonna be more empowerment of the federal government. It\u2019s gonna be bigger and bigger government. It\u2019s gonna be less and less freedom and liberty and less money to be made by people in the private sector. They\u2019re tired of accepting promises. They\u2019re tired of holding their nose and voting for the lesser of two evils. They think they\u2019ve got nothing to lose by going with somebody that you describe as a know-nothing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we have a lot to lose. I am a Cruz supporter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the thing is is that we don\u2019t just sink the ship just because we have an axe to grind against —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just it; they don\u2019t think they\u2019re sinking the ship. Why do you think, honestly — don\u2019t detect any combativeness in my voice. I\u2019m just impassioned here. There\u2019s no contentiousness or argument here. Why do you think Trump supporters are supporting him? Can you give me two or three reasons? Is there a number one overriding reason that you think they\u2019re supporting him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think this is a backlash as far as in your face. It\u2019s just a way to get back. It\u2019s a reaction more than it is an actual thought process.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I have read the learned theories of the learned members of the commentariat in both conservative and liberal enclaves, and there seems to be some agreement with that sentiment, which is boiled down to, you basically have a bunch of people, Trump supporters who are fed up and totally ticked off with the fact that they keep losing, and they think it\u2019s cause the government\u2019s picking winners. And so they\u2019re mad, and they want to take it out on somebody, and they\u2019re gonna vote for Trump because they think that\u2019s the best way to show how mad they are. That is a pretty commonly held view of the average Trump voter. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m here to tell you, there are a whole lot of Trump voters that I know who are not angry in that way. They don\u2019t blame anybody. In fact, many of the Trump voters I know are pretty successful. They\u2019re not running around bent out of shape about that. Most of the people that I know supporting Trump do so for two reasons — and I\u2019ll tell you what they are when I get back — and not one of them has anything to do with conservatism or liberalism or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. The two reasons, primary two reasons I have detected people I know who are supporting Trump. And, again, there\u2019s a conventional wisdom out there. And it comes from many in conservative media. It comes from establishment types, that the Trump voter is an idiot, white, middle class, lower middle class, almost in poverty, fed up, has made rotten life choices and wants to blame everybody else and is running around enraged, filled with rage, and just wants people to know how mad they are, and that\u2019s what Trump is. <\/p>\n

And, I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s your average Democrat voter. Your average Democrat voter is exactly described that way: somebody filled with rage, somebody that wants to get even with somebody. They\u2019re fed up with not having their lives have any meaning, not mattering, and they\u2019re fit to be tied about it. And they believe the Democrat Party is gonna punish people for \u2019em by raising their taxes or whatever else. And they\u2019re made happy by other people suffering. That is not your Trump voter. There may be some people like that, but that\u2019s not who they are, the vast majority of them. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just tell you, the ones I know who are for Trump, some of them are reluctantly for Trump. Some of them are adamantly for Trump. But the two reasons are — and one of them is gonna shock you. The first reason — and not in any priority here — but they just have had it with the Republican Party, call it the establishment or whatever. They just lost total confidence. The last seven years there has been no opposition to the things the Democrat Party has done that have wrought, tremendous, real, measurable, demonstrable damage and change, for the worse, to this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

The cultural depravity that\u2019s going on and being normalized is one thing. The economic destruction. There\u2019s no economic growth. There can\u2019t be. The government is taking all of the growth and absorbing it. It\u2019s getting bigger. The private sector cannot create enough growth to keep up because it\u2019s getting smaller and smaller, and 94 million Americans in it are not even working. So there is no GDP gain of any substance, and that is maddening. It is frustratrating. These people all have kids and grandkids. And government is not where fortunes are made. Well, see, if you\u2019re Solyndra, if you\u2019re GE, if you\u2019re a corporation engaging in corporate cronyism with government, you can make a fortune, and even some individuals can do it. <\/p>\n

But for the most part the way it\u2019s always been done is the tried-and-true way defined as the American dream. That\u2019s getting more and more limited as time goes on because the economy is shrinking because the government\u2019s taking. This worries people tremendously. And it\u2019s not, by the way, folks, it\u2019s not that they think Trump — I want to be very clear about this — it\u2019s not that they think Trump is eminently qualified. <\/p>\n

They just have had it with these so-called experts trying to run everything and screwing everything up, from the economic system to the health care system to targeting private sector industries as the enemies of America, they\u2019ve had it, they\u2019re fed up with it. Not to mention immigration and what\u2019s happening to the demographic makeup of the country. It\u2019d be one thing if this were happening with controlled assimilation and the definitive American culture that there\u2019s always been was being maintained and sponsored and grown. But it\u2019s not. It\u2019s being eroded, on purpose and by design. And the Republican Party\u2019s not lifting a finger to stop it and, in fact, in many ways wants to join in it when it comes to immigration. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re fed up. They\u2019ve been told one too many times to hold their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. And that leads into the second reason, and the second reason is — and I think this is the one that\u2019s gonna shock you — they think Trump\u2019s the only guy that can beat Hillary Clinton. They think Donald Trump, matter what the polls say, no matter what all the learned commentary says, they don\u2019t care about all these polls that show disapproval and high negative numbers. They think Donald Trump is the only guy who can beat Hillary Clinton, or Bernie Sanders, whoever it\u2019s gonna be. But it\u2019s likely gonna be Hillary, and that\u2019s another thing. They don\u2019t want any part of Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

Which leads to another thing. When they hear elected Republicans say they would probably vote for Hillary instead of either Cruz or Trump, that\u2019s another reason why they don\u2019t want any part of the establishment. They don\u2019t want to support people who are actually out saying that kind of thing. The problem is, the election of Democrats does not hurt Republicans living in Washington. The election of Democrats does not harm the Republican establishment, except maybe they don\u2019t hold onto Senate committee chairmanships, and maybe they don\u2019t run the House, but outside of that, these teeming hordes of illegal immigrants are not living where they work. <\/p>\n

The social and political and business cultures of Washington, DC, and the parts of New York City where they hang around doesn\u2019t change whether Democrats or Republicans are elected. But you get outside Washington, you go to any state in this country, and it matters to people. When a Democrat gets elected to the presidency, it\u2019s not good for most people, particularly most Republicans. It isn\u2019t good. And the last seven years are prima facie evidence of it. <\/p>\n

So they look at the establishment and they say, for crying out loud, these guys, the light goes off in their head. It doesn\u2019t matter to them when the Democrats win. It doesn\u2019t really negatively affect their lives any. Life still goes on for them. But when Democrats are elected and run the <\/line>\"original\"White House and run the House and Senate, start getting hold of all these regulatory agencies and bureaucracies, start passing laws left and right, all that happens is that government grows and grows, freedom and liberty are becoming more and more limited, economic opportunity gets stifled. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve had it. Seven years of not even fighting back against it. Seven years of not even opposing any of it. It doesn\u2019t take much for somebody to come along and say he\u2019s gonna fight back or whatever, even pass himself off as a combative, street fighter kind of guy. You could throw conservatism, liberalism out, in terms of some of these people that I\u2019ve known that are supporting Trump. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, they\u2019ve got their concerns about him. They worry he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. They worry doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. They worry he\u2019s not in-depth, a policy guy, but in many cases that\u2019s even a plus for him, \u2019cause they so detest. They\u2019re just fed up. <\/p>\n

Remember, these are people in their sixties, folks, kids and grandkids. They\u2019re fed up. They\u2019ve had a lifetime full of, and particularly the last seven years, of the most radical Democrat Party expansion that we have seen in our lives not be opposed, not be stopped, not even campaigned against in a serious way. So the levels of frustration are reaching a maximum point. So it\u2019s not just one reason. Two reasons are primary, but I can just illustrate here how they are related to so many other things. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m surprised by some of it like you are. I\u2019m surprised when Trump illustrates he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about on a policy or some in-depth matter that most people are familiar with. It amazes me that it doesn\u2019t matter. But I have to keep reminding myself, that\u2019s not why he\u2019s supported. In fact, that kind of in-depth understanding and ability to discuss policy like it\u2019s discussed in Washington is itself a negative. <\/p>\n

It just sends the signal that it\u2019s gonna be more of the same. A lot of people are serious that Washington needs to be rebuilt. Not the country needs to be transformed; it\u2019s Washington that needs to be transformed. There\u2019s nothing wrong with the country other than what the Democrat Party primarily is doing to it, but the Republicans are culpable because they\u2019re not stopping it. It\u2019s a big, big deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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