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RUSH: All right, look. It really doesn\u2019t matter whether I think Cruz is cheating or not. Some of you do, and that\u2019s as far as it goes. You don\u2019t… But I\u2019m gonna try to explain this to you because I think it is very important that everybody understand this. Now, I just said closing out the previous hour<\/a> something, apparently, very provocative. My e-mail is blowing up. I\u2019m thinking ahead down the road. I\u2019m asking myself, what happens here if the establishment succeeds in beating Trump? For this discussion, it doesn\u2019t matter whether they do it legitimately or quote\/unquote “cheat.”<\/p>\n

At the end of this, if Trump doesn\u2019t get the nomination after all of this, then what\u2019s next? Now, Pat Buchanan has written <\/a>that he thinks it doesn\u2019t really matter because Trump has ignited a new nationalistic populist movement which will not be denied, and that, if they don\u2019t get there this year, this movement now has found out how powerful it is and how many people are in it; that in certain polling senses they are a majority. A number of people oppose immigration, want a wall, and have trade deal opposition. So Buchanan says that…<\/p>\n

And, by the way, he\u2019s not hoping for this. But if Trump doesn\u2019t get the nomination, he says that that doesn\u2019t matter because this group of people, the Trumpists — the people supporting Trump. Buchanan believes they\u2019re actually supporting more than Trump. They are supporting a set of ideas and principles that will survive Trump. And that a new movement has been born, that the genie\u2019s out of the bottle, that the establishment will not be able to put back in the bottle. <\/line><\/p>\n

Doug Schoen, who is a Democrat pollster and strategist who also appears on the evil and dreaded Fox News Channel where he does analysis — usually sitting next to, I think, Monica Crowley or whoever they put him with, just to balance it out. You know, “fair and balanced,” you decide. Doug has a piece here. (chuckles) Oh, look! It\u2019s at Fox News. And the headline: “Donald Trump Saw What Politicians Ignored. And Then he Disrupted American Politics.”<\/a> And his theme is this. <\/p>\n

“In future elections, we may not have someone as outlandish as Trump. But his legacy will surely have paved the way for leaders who may not know anything about governing, but know a lot about how people are feeling.” I gather from this… Here the headline: “Donald Trump Saw What Politicians Ignored. And Then he Disrupted American Politics.” He quite correctly notes the genuine depth of anger that a majority of Americans feel, and he thinks — I guess along the line with Buchanan — that a new movement has begun here. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t deny that. I mean, I don\u2019t deny that the people who think what they think are gonna stop thinking it, and I don\u2019t doubt that there\u2019s a lot of them. But my only point is this. This is how serious it is. If the establishment succeeds or if Ted Cruz — and those are two different entities, by the way. Ted Cruz is not the establishment right now. So you\u2019ve got two entities working against Trump. You got Cruz from the campaign angle; you\u2019ve got the establishment from their own angle. If either or both succeed in stopping Trump, where does this movement go?<\/p>\n

I have no doubt they might abandon the Republican Party. But my instincts tell me that… What\u2019s the objective here? If you\u2019re a Trumpist, what\u2019s the objective? After winning, besides winning, what\u2019s the objective? It\u2019s to abolish this insider club, right? It\u2019s to abolish the establishment. It\u2019s to get rid of it once and for all, realizing you\u2019re only gonna be able to do that on the Republican side. (chuckling) The Democrats are not gonna let anybody come in and kick them out of it — and I don\u2019t think the Republicans are, either.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s say that that\u2019s the ultimate objective is to just get rid of this club, is to get rid of all of this insider stuff, all the favoritism, all the back scratching, all the cronyism, all the unfairness, you know, all the greasing skids for everybody\u2019s kids so all they have to do is grow up and they\u2019re automatic successes and all this is. Get rid of it, blow it up, and turn it back over to a merit based. I\u2019m here to tell you that if the establishment beats back this effort, nobody\u2019s gonna come along and take it away from \u2019em again. (interruption)<\/line><\/p>\n

Why are you shaking your head in there? (interruption) You doubt my premise? (interruption) Well, my only point here is that the objective is to… If the problem is perceived to be the establishment, which it is, and Trump is the vehicle for victory overwhelming, overcoming the establishment, what happens if Trump doesn\u2019t win? The establishment holds on. If Trump doesn\u2019t win, no matter what. If the Trumpists represent one half of the voters of the Republican Party, and then if every one of them stops voting Republican, that is not gonna end the Republican establishment. <\/p>\n

And, furthermore, the Republican establishment won\u2019t care. That\u2019s the problem. They won\u2019t care. As long as they hold on to their fiefdom, as long as there is a Republican Party, and as long as the people who run it continue to run it, then beating back this latest insurgency, they will consider to be a victory. Not whether they win the White House or not. Their first order of business right now is to beat back the insurgency, the rabble-rousers, the peasants with the pitchforks. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s their first objective right now. And if they have to roll up their sleeves and work with Ted Cruz for a couple of months to do it, they\u2019ll do it. But then Cruz is gonna be their next target. (interruption) Don\u2019t doubt me. (interruption) Don\u2019t shake your heads in there. Don\u2019t doubt me on this. These are people hanging on for dear life. These are people in a car that has gone over the cliff; it\u2019s sinking to the bottom of the lake. They\u2019re struggling to get the windows open and swim out of that car, and they\u2019re gonna do everything they can to live. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna allow Trump to push that car over the cliff with the doors and windows locked, or Cruz, for that matter. So my only point is this: If Trump, as a candidate, ends up being defeated, and if he doesn\u2019t get to 1,237, do you see him winning on a second or third ballot, given what you\u2019ve seen happen this weekend? Well, some people don\u2019t, but even though you\u2019ve gotta realize something. If everybody\u2019s out there buying delegates, don\u2019t forget Trump has Mar-a-Lago. <\/p>\n

I mean, if you\u2019re gonna wine and dine delegates, Trump\u2019s got Trump Force One. I mean, Trump\u2019s… There you go once again: Insulting delegates, thinking they can be bought off with… (interruption) Well, can I give you some names? (chuckling) No, folks, I\u2019m just kidding. Look, the anti-establishment movement is real. It\u2019s a lot of people. But if it doesn\u2019t succeed in making great, great inroads in the establishment this time around, it\u2019s gonna be a long time before it happens again. The establishment\u2019s gonna be well girded, well protected — and this is for keeps. That\u2019s why…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry. All of this is precisely why the focus on Hillary and Obama and the Democrats hasbeen lost, because right now people are in a life-and-death struggle over their identity, their self-worth and any number of other things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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