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RUSH: Here is Tim in Washington, DC. Welcome, sir. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, great honor.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: So I\u2019ve been… You know, I\u2019m very politically vocal, and when I used to debate or engage with a liberal, I would always point out how their points of view were very similar to socialism. And before they would deny it, you know, they would fight. “Oh, no, no, no, no! I\u2019m not a socialist.” Well, now it seems like they embrace it. I mean, they have a candidate running who\u2019s openly socialist, and I\u2019m just talking a period of, you know, 15 years. So I guess my question to you is: Have things really changed that much in that short of a time period?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If they have, where is it going?<\/p>\n

RUSH: On their side, yeah. No question it has. They are all-in now. It used to be that calling them a liberal enraged them. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I remember.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m talking at the present or 15 years ago, they would fight, “Oh, no, that\u2019s not socialism!”<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Ten years ago, 15, you\u2019d call \u2019em liberal and they would get upset. If you call \u2019em socialist, they would become enraged. Today they\u2019re happy to be socialists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If it\u2019s changed that much in that little time, then where is it going?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s been that long. Where was all this during the eight years of Bush? I think this change has been more overnight than just the last 10, 15 years. Now, it may be that these people have always been there near the surface. Well, they have been. They\u2019ve always been who they are. We\u2019re talking about comfort with labels. I think the election of Obama has inspired and encouraged a bunch of \u2019em just be honest about who they are. Not, interestingly, elected Democrats.<\/p>\n

Elected Democrats will never permit you to call \u2019em socialists. But the rank-and-file, they actually do. The transformation is remarkable, as you point out. They believe that it is a positive moniker because of what they think people believe it means, and I think it ties in to how successfully they have co-opted the public education system for years and years and years. Now, I don\u2019t think these people are anywhere near a majority of the country. That\u2019s the great irony here. They are not a majority of the country. I\u2019m convinced of that. <\/line><\/p>\n

We have not reached tipping point. Now, we\u2019re probably closer than we would like to admit, but they do not have guaranteed victory every election. It\u2019s not reached the point where we are outnumbered now. That\u2019s why I have such a visceral reaction to Republicans who think and who say that they can\u2019t win anymore with just Republican votes. Well, that may be; I don\u2019t know. But the answer to that is not to go out and change who you are to attract people who you\u2019re talking about, who are avowed socialists. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not gonna get Hispanics who predominantly vote Democrat just because we may be open to amnesty. It just doesn\u2019t work that way. The problems that we have with people run far deeper than just where they perceive us to be on one issue or two issues. But I think all of that\u2019s part of the political battle. Those people are not to be joined; they\u2019re to be defeated. That\u2019s why there\u2019s such anger in the Republican base whenever any Republican talks about the ability to work with these people. <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to work with them.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to work with us. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no cooperation. That\u2019s always a one-way street. We\u2019re talking politics here. We want to defeat them. And the Republican base is fed up that that doesn\u2019t seem to be part of the Republican agenda is defeating the opposition. It seems to be try to mollify it or appease it or get along with it. And that\u2019s why you have outsiders who are leading the Republican presidential primary race right now, Trump and Ben Carson. Now, where is it going? What happens if the Democrats lose the presidency?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say… Take your pick. Well, I don\u2019t… I think they would react, they\u2019re gonna react violently if a Republican wins the White House. It isn\u2019t gonna be pretty. And how they, you know, behave after that? Who knows? I can\u2019t predict that. That\u2019s actually one of the fun aspects of having a job like this, is you don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen day to day. I mean, I can predict what liberals are gonna say and I can tell you what they believe, and I can tell you what they think. But how they\u2019re going to react, I can also predict that. <\/p>\n

But how is it gonna manifest itself in terms of how they label themselves going forward? The one thing they\u2019ve mastered is even when they lose, they do not act like it. And because they have the media, they continue to act like they still won or they are still running the show or still leading the show. And the winners, the Republicans, are still treated as the outsiders, or as the aliens or what have you. And so it\u2019s kind of hard to say, but I\u2019m like you. This seemingly overnight change — not just in them but in the whole culture of the country — has been something I have been extremely curious about. <\/p>\n

Tim, thanks for the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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