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RUSH: Here is Shane in Miami. Shane, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I want to respond to about what you were saying about Hillary and the Democrat Party, and I think it speaks to why Trump is resonating with a lot of Millennials right now. With Millennials like myself, our whole lives we\u2019ve been bombarded with “sharing” and “teamwork” and “you can\u2019t always do everything by yourself; you need to have someone there with you,” “don\u2019t have unrealistic expectations.”<\/p>\n

And here comes Trump saying, “I\u2019m really rich.” And when I hear him say that, I\u2019m so glad that someone is able to say, “You know what? I\u2019m proud of how much I\u2019ve achieved, and you can achieve that, too.” That\u2019s inspiring for a lot of Millennials. Our whole lives we\u2019ve been taught, “Not only don\u2019t pursue being wealthy, but why would you want to be? Wealthy people are evil, they\u2019re mean, and you should be ashamed of success, almost.” And that\u2019s really what the Democrat Party represents. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just so glad that we finally have a Republican not running away from their wealth like Romney. You know, like he\u2019s ashamed of it. “Oh, I don\u2019t really have that much money.” Here comes Trump: “I\u2019m really rich!” That is almost the same thing as hip-hop artists, if you look at hip-hop music — and I\u2019m not really a big fan of it, but it\u2019s very popular with Millennials. Essentially what the theme is — the central theme — in hip-hop music is just bragging about success and coming up from nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I mean, MTV… I don\u2019t know if they still do, but they used to have a show where hip-hoppers and athletes would welcome you into their crib so they can brag about how big it was and how much stuff they had in it and how cool it was. But you have hit on something that is right on the money. It\u2019s fascinated me, and I\u2019ve even referenced it on this program a couple times in the past couple years. When I first saw it, there was a story out of San Francisco on how Millennials have no interest in automobiles.<\/line><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to buy a car. They don\u2019t want to own anything. And then I started seeing stories about how they don\u2019t want to own anything, and the “sharing economy” is booming because Millennials don\u2019t like to be tied to ownership. They love sharing, even their digs, even their places they live. They like ride sharing, i.e., Uber. It was presented as, “These people are way ahead of the curve. This is the future of America! Nobody\u2019s gonna own anything. <\/p>\n

“Nobody\u2019s gonna have the money to own anything. Nobody wants that life of owning it. Nobody wants to have to pay the insurance for owning anything. Everybody\u2019s gonna want to have a share.” I always thought that this was a meme, if you will, put forth by a bunch of socialists who trying to preach the virtue of sameness and equal outcomes and nobody having more than anybody else, and everybody sharing what they had.<\/p>\n

But the problem that I saw was that the Millennials, as it was reported, buying into it. And you\u2019re telling me that that\u2019s not the case, that you not crazy about being told to share everything. By the way, one of the reasons that the “sharing economy” has become so prominent — correct me if I\u2019m wrong — is that you\u2019re told the nation\u2019s best economic days are behind us, that there is no great American economic future anymore.<\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s just gonna have to do with less and share and so forth, and I have always gotten the impression that Millennials bought into that, accepted it, and liked it. You\u2019re telling me that when a guy like Trump comes along, brags about his wealth and his achievement, that it is inspiring to other Millennials, that they want a piece of that themselves now? That\u2019s what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. That is true. And I think it\u2019s the same thing as we see with, okay, so people tend to think that America is more liberal than it is because the media is majority liberal. That\u2019s why people think that America is more liberal than it really is. The media doesn\u2019t represent all of America. So I don\u2019t think that young liberal celebrities — and those that are really active on social media that tend to get the most attention — represent the majority of the Millennials.<\/line><\/p>\n

Trump has tapped into the silent majority not just of people in America in general but specifically Millennials, the silent majority of Millennials who really do pay attention to politics because they\u2019re turned off by the Mitt Romneys, the John McCains. It\u2019s just boring for them. Trump has brought excitement and saying things that they can understand, is their language. That\u2019s what you were talking about earlier. He was talking about how he can\u2019t have any 19-point plan; it needs to be flexible. <\/p>\n

Not only that but people don\u2019t want to sit down — especially Millennials, they\u2019re not gonna sit down — and listen to a 19-point economic plan. But if Trump comes out and says, “Jeb Bush is weak on immigration,” we understand that. That\u2019s pretty simplistic. We can understand that. But I think it really just goes back to the fact that we\u2019ve been constantly bombarded with this our whole lives, and we\u2019re stick of it. We\u2019re sick of being told that you have to share everything and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re sick of being told to lower your expectations, I\u2019ll bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. And that, you know, it\u2019s unrealistic for you to think that you could ever be rich, and why would you want to be anyway? Rich people are snobs! You know, they\u2019re —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it used to be — and, Shane, it wasn\u2019t that long ago. Honestly. I wouldn\u2019t lie to you. It used to be thought that becoming wealth was a sign that somebody was doing something right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Well, Ben Shapiro… Actually I\u2019m a big fan of his. He has touched on this before, too, and he says the thing about Millennials — \u2019cause he\u2019s a Millennial also. He says that, you know, it used to be the case that if a father and a son were walking down the street and they saw a guy driving a nice car down the street, the father would turn to his son and he\u2019d say, “You know, there\u2019s a guy who works hard. That guy, he\u2019s driven, and if you work hard enough, son, you can be successful just like him.” Now you see the guy driving a nice car and people think, “Gee, look at that guy driving a nice car! Why does he get to have that? You know what? Let\u2019s follow him home, and then when he goes in his house, we\u2019ll throw a rock at his car! We\u2019ll key the car.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or, worse than that. “Who did he rip off to get that car?” or something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember, you\u2019re right, when I was growing up, when I was in my teenage years and approaching the age of 16, which was back then that\u2019s when you get your driver\u2019s license, my dad the actual started asking, “If you could have any car in the world, what would you want?” It wasn\u2019t, “Lower your expectations, Son. You\u2019re never gonna be able to afford a nice car.” It was, “What would you like, Son?” He wasn\u2019t offering to get me a car. He just wanted to find out what I was thinking.<\/line><\/p>\n

“If you could have whatever you wanted, what would it be?” We talked about it, and with no guilt about it. It was obviously fantasy time. I\u2019m 15 years old. I\u2019m never gonna, back then, be able to get kind of car I want, but it was point. The attitude that accompanied it was one of anticipation. “If you work hard, you might be able to get it.” But it was a possibility is the point. It was a legitimate, genuine possibility. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t something to be ashamed of. It wasn\u2019t something to be critical of. It wasn\u2019t something that said something negative about somebody to have such aspirations. And those are all true today. The greater aspirations you have, the more selfish it is assumed you are and the less you care about others. And I think these stigmatizations have been successfully attached to people in your generation. How have you avoided being caught up with it all?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know what? I think it was just that I\u2019ve always been someone who\u2019s embraced individualism. I always hated working in groups, and constantly throughout school teachers would say, “Get in your groups,” and so a group you would get a grade, and so it didn\u2019t matter if you did a lot of work and no one else did any. I always hated that, and I think that a lot of people are like me; they hated that. But they were just pushed into it. And I really myself have just constantly resisted it.<\/p>\n

I was naturally a more independent person, but I could see that other people felt the same thing way as me. They just weren\u2019t really saying anything about it. And specifically Millennial men. I think Trump has tapped into something with Millennial men as well, and that is with not being politically correct. We\u2019ve been taught as men, as Millennial men, “You can\u2019t offend women! Don\u2019t say anything offensive,” you know? And, “Don\u2019t hold the door open for them! That\u2019s sexist.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, you may be on something here — and if you are, I really hope you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Yep. Yeah, I mean, we\u2019re just tired of this. I mean, you go to college campuses now you almost have to be afraid of women if you\u2019re a guy because, you know, they might accuse you of rape or sexual harassment or you may get sued by somebody just for asking her out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t even have to be there to be accused of rape.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lena Dunham accused somebody wasn\u2019t even there. She wrote a book about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and here comes Trump, and he\u2019s just like, “You know what? I\u2019m not gonna take any of this garbage. If you\u2019re gonna accuse me of sexual harassment in front of millions of people in the debate,” as Megyn Kelly pretty much did. She accused him of sexual harassment, completely taken out of context. But he said, “You know what? I\u2019m not gonna put up with this political correctness,” and he pushed back. I think that is inspiring for Millennial men. They want someone who is able to say, “I\u2019m gonna push back and this is what you need to do. You don\u2019t just have to sit there and take it from Mattress Girl at Columbia or whoever it is. You don\u2019t have to take this crap. You can push back,” you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this might be really, really something. He might really be on to something here, folks, in terms of why. Not just Millennials, but other people. I guarantee you that the establishment of both parties is trying to figure out what it is Trump\u2019s doing that\u2019s working. So that\u2019s why they come up with, “Well, you know, he\u2019s not giving specifics! He\u2019s speaking platitudes. He\u2019s gonna bomb out. He\u2019s a braggadocios rich guy with bad hair.” I think you\u2019ve offered some specifics here. <\/line><\/p>\n

Trump is a living example that anti-PC is cool, anti-PC is successful, anti-PC is fun. And that you don\u2019t have to be shellacked in it and be put in prison with it and so forth. If you\u2019re right, it will counter. Because I guarantee you, Shane: A lot of people believe that Millennials want to be PC. They want to be the way they are, and that they\u2019re leading the movement to be that way. <\/p>\n

What you\u2019re saying is that a lot of \u2019em don\u2019t and are looking for reasons to break out, and Trump offers an example of how you can break out and prosper and be liked, which is what a lot of people want to be. So I appreciate your call. I really thank you for taking the time here to get through. I really do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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