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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Robert in Roanoke, Virginia. Welcome. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good afternoon, sir. Prayers to you and Kathryn, and this is an honor that was second only to shaking Trump\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I really appreciate that. I really do. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Now, to my point. I — I told Snerdley what my question was. May I add a roll-on question after that one? I don\u2019t want to break the rules.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Sure, go ahead. There\u2019s no rules. Whatever you want.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Well, now that the GOP\u2019s turned their back on, well, Trump and the rest of us — for the most part, not all of them, but for the most part — and we see how elections can be manipulated and done with at will, is there any reason to vote for the GOP again? And, furthermore, even if a third party comes out of this, is it just as fruitless?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, this is a… (sigh) It\u2019s a tough thing. I think it\u2019s a personal decision for about everybody that\u2019s gonna be involved in this. There needs to be an organized opposition to the Democrats. There needs to be a place where the fruits and labors of the organized opposition can vote. There has to be some mechanism for the opposition to have a chance.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve got a couple of stories here that I can share with you that I think will maybe give you some clarity on this on what other people are thinking about it. I got a story here from Joel Pollak at Breitbart and John Nolte at Breitbart, and they\u2019ve got a couple theories or answering your question. I also got a note from a friend who basically is voicing the same question that you\u2019re asking, only in an opinion.<\/p>\n
The email that he sent me says, “They turned their backs on it when it matters. But today, they\u2019re sending out press releases and being interviewed in local media complaining about what Biden is doing with the Keystone XL, Paris climate accords, immigration.” Now, what this means is that Biden gave his inaugural address, and the Republicans in Washington did what they know how to do.<\/p>\n
They went out and created some fundraising letters to send to their massive mailing lists, and they begged a bunch of people to give them money. They expressed shock and outrage that the Democrats would ever try to go back in the Paris climate accords, or that they would shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, or that they would get rid of the wall — and this is what irritates people.<\/p>\n
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“Where were you? We had a guy to stop this! We had somebody that was perfectly capable of stopping all of this. His name was Donald Trump, and all you had to do was support him. But you couldn\u2019t because it\u2019s an establishment thing, and you didn\u2019t think he belonged (and you do). So you enable the forces in opposition to Trump to win, and now you\u2019re sending us fundraising emails asking us to help you stop Biden and the Democrats?<\/p>\n
“If you want to stop Biden now, why didn\u2019t you want to stop him in October? Why didn\u2019t you want to stop him in September?” I don\u2019t know that these people understand the level of sophistication of the average Republican voter today. What I just voiced is by no means educational for you. You feel it yourself. You don\u2019t need me to tell you what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n
These are the very same people who are sending you fundraising letters asking you to help them stop Biden and the Keystone pipeline and the Paris accords. You\u2019re scratching your heads (or worse) and saying, “We had a guy in office that had stopped all of this! We weren\u2019t in the Paris accords. The Keystone pipeline was running. It was up and running.<\/p>\n
“Immigration was in the process of being fixed. We had the guy. You helped get rid of him! Why in the world…?” It just doesn\u2019t compute. So your question: “Should we be supporting the Republican Party?” It would be… Man, I… Why would you? But it\u2019s up to you. You know, maybe they should have done something about election fraud.<\/p>\n
Maybe they should have been concerned about all this so that Biden wouldn\u2019t win. But when you get right down to it, they wanted Biden to win; they wanted Trump gone, because they are establishment types themselves. I just… I find this mind-boggling. After Biden\u2019s inauguration speech, here come the emails. Have you seen these fundraising emails, Mr. Snerdley?<\/p>\n
“Unlike his predecessors, [Trump] never broke the law (Clinton), or the rules of the Constitution (Obama), but he tested the limits of democracy by trusting his ‘movement\u2019 to impose its will. [Trump\u2019s] boldness made him an extraordinarily successful president — until [the] disastrous January 6 challenge, which has left the Republican Party divided and dispirited.”<\/p>\n If that… Aw, that should never have happened. None of that on January 6 should ever had happened. Another pull quote: “To a large extent, Biden\u2019s sweeping promises will be defeated more by reality than by Republicans. ‘For a left-wing party in power, its most serious antagonist is always its own past propaganda,\u2019 George Orwell observed.”<\/p>\n Exactly. What he means is, they\u2019re gonna raise their expectations so high that they\u2019re not gonna be able to fulfill them for anybody, and they\u2019re gonna overstep in the process. They\u2019re going to, in essence, essentially sabotage themselves more than the Republicans will. See, if you\u2019re asking me, “Well, Rush… Rush, what do we do?” I would actually give it a lot of thought, because what if Orwell is right?<\/p>\n What if, at the end of the day, the Democrats are gonna end up sabotaging themselves? Then you don\u2019t have to give any money to Republicans to make that happen, \u2019cause it will. Don\u2019t doubt me. Another pull quote: “Rebuilding without Donald Trump must include his policies,” it must include “the MAGA agenda.” Well, do you think that the Republican hierarchy in the House and the Senate right now are in any away desirous of incorporating the MAGA agenda?<\/p>\n They want no part of it. They are looking forward to the Mitt Romneys of the world reconstituting the Republican Party as it was in the early 2000s and the mid-2000s, before Trump came along and corrupted the whole thing. They don\u2019t want any part of MAGA. Now, why wouldn\u2019t they? Why wouldn\u2019t they? What in the world is so off putting about Make America Great Again?<\/p>\n Mr. Pollack says, “The GOP should also retain Trump\u2019s approach to free trade, which was astonishingly successful, and insist on reciprocity with our trading partners. … Republicans can also challenge Democrats\u2019 claim to be the party of ‘science.\u2019 The pandemic has proved that boast [to be the party of ‘science\u2019] to be a farce, as Democrats imposed unnecessarily harsh lockdowns, and the teachers\u2019 unions in big Democrat-run cities and states forced children to stay at home when they were at minimal risk of transmitting the coronavirus or suffering” from it.<\/p>\n So those are a couple things from Joel Pollak. John Nolte: “[W]hen I say the ‘Republican Party,\u2019<\/a> I\u2019m not talking about Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. I\u2019m talking about us, we the people, those who call themselves Republicans, but only because that was the party Trump chose to run with.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-BREITBART-TEARAWAY-012121-002.jpg\")
<\/a>I mean, it\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s so unnecessary. We had the guy in place who had stopped it all. He had stopped them in the Paris accords and the Keystone pipeline. He had shut them down. Oh, man, you talk about frustrating. Now, here\u2019s Joel Pollak in Breitbart: “Where Trump Supporters Go from Here.”<\/a> I\u2019ll just share with you some pull quotes here to give an idea of what his piece is about.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>So ask yourself, are you a Republican because of Ted Cruz, of Rubio, of McConnell, Paul Ryan, or are you a Republican because of Trump? Because there are different kinds of Republicans. “In just five years…” This is profound, here, folks. I\u2019ve made this point myself countless times. “In just five years,” starting in 2015, “the Republican Party had become the party of the working class,” the party that [backed] private unions members…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Trump.jpg\")
So then more often than not after they were elected that agenda vanished. It just didn\u2019t happen. There was always some excuse. There was always some reason after they were elected that they discovered that was gonna make it really, really hard like Mitch McConnell say, “Well, we need 60 votes here in the Senate. We don\u2019t have \u2019em.”<\/p>\n