{"id":272746,"date":"2018-05-02T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=272746"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:43:54","slug":"attaboys-federalist-taking-never-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/02\/attaboys-federalist-taking-never-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attaboys to The Federalist for Taking It to the Never Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: One of the sore spots that we\u2019ve all had since the campaign of 2016 began is been the Never Trumpers and people like them who disagree with the premise that the country is in crisis, right? You have a bunch of Never Trumpers, you have conservative intellectuals who don\u2019t think there is anything particularly odd about what\u2019s going on in the country. We\u2019re certainly not in a crisis. They don\u2019t see immigration as a crisis. They don\u2019t see losing the culture as a crisis. They think we\u2019re nuts for looking at things this way!<\/p>\n

The only thing that\u2019s changed here is that we had a Republican win that they don\u2019t like. But really there\u2019s no big problem. In other words, the Never Trumpers and the conservative intellectuals to this day are sitting in blind faith. They are unable to see the danger posed to this country by the American left, by the Democrat Party. They believe the country is more threatened by Donald Trump and his lack of sophistication than by anything the left is doing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And it\u2019s causing us to be very, very frustrated. Well, there\u2019s a column that\u2019s shown up at The Federalist. Actually, it was published yesterday. “It\u2019s Time For the Right to Realize the Left Is a Much Greater Threat than Trumpism.<\/a>” I\u2019m glad to see this piece! I\u2019m glad to be joined in this take, that the problem we\u2019re facing is that too many people on our side do not see the real threat or enemy or whatever — in the political context — in the country today, and instead they see Trump!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s a piece at The Federalist by John Ericsson, “It\u2019s Time For the Right to Realize the Left Is a Much Greater Threat Than Trumpism.” Yeah. You and I have been on this page since Trump first announced his candidacy. The Never Trumpers and even some conservative intellectuals who are not Never Trumpers. They\u2019re not particularly anti-Trump. They voted for him or voted against Hillary or whatever.<\/p>\n

The point is there\u2019s a bunch of people that do not realize the real threat that our country faces — and it\u2019s not Trump, and it\u2019s not Trumpism, and it\u2019s not nationalism or populism. It\u2019s liberalism. It\u2019s the left. What amazes me about these Never Trumpers is these people — particularly the conservative intellectuals — why do they exist? They exist to be in opposition to liberalism! Starting with Mr. Buckley and National Review and God and Man at Yale, the whole point here was to illustrate the follies, the fallacies, and the dangers of the left.<\/p>\n

And somehow a bunch of conservative intellectuals have forgotten the liberal component of what they do — i.e., opposing it — and have somehow centered on Trump. And we all know why. I\u2019ve explained psychologically why. I\u2019m just happy that they\u2019re somewhere other than this program that says it. The Federalist is a good site, and I\u2019m glad they\u2019re publishing this. It harps on Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg primarily, and one of the points Mr. Ericsson makes is to compare…<\/p>\n

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Jonah believes, for example, that the power of ideas will win. Our ideas are superior; we just have to be expressing ideas, enunciating our ideas, the power of our ideas will prevail. And of course the ideas do prevail in a vacuum, but in the real-world setting that we\u2019re in now, who knows what the ideas are? They\u2019ve been so distorted, they have been impugned and literally lied about for so many years by the media and the left that nobody knows what the ideas are. They think it\u2019s racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.<\/p>\n

But the highlight of it is that the conservative intellectuals don\u2019t want to fight back. Ergo, Trump. People that voted for Trump realize the threat posed to the country by the left. They don\u2019t think Trump is. Trump\u2019s the solution simply because he\u2019s the one person will be to push back against it, fight back against it, roll it back, and in many ways he has succeeded. There\u2019s an interesting analogy that\u2019s used here.<\/p>\n

Look at Eliot Ness. How did Eliot Ness first try to stop Capone? Well, a little raid here, and a little raid there on Capone\u2019s massive illegal booze movement and operation and Prohibition. Ness didn\u2019t do a damn thing to stop Capone or any of the other mobsters. It required something much larger and much bigger rather than just these little hit-and-miss raids that express their ideals and maintain their principles. “We\u2019re opposed to booze; booze is illegal.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna make sure you can\u2019t traffic in it.” So they hit them there, hit them there, but didn\u2019t stop them. But they were being true to their ideals. They were being true to their principles. But being true to ideas and principles wasn\u2019t stopping anything. It wasn\u2019t resulting in victory. Ness and people that came later had to resort to different strategies. Anyway, I\u2019m just glad to see it, and I wanted to point it out and give a couple of attaboys to The Federalist.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Charles in Murdock, Kansas. Charles, you\u2019re next. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. I\u2019d like to say, I think that a blue wave is really unlikely. We\u2019re more likely to have a purple wave where we have the RINOs replacing conservative members like we have in Kansas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like who?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we had Tim Huelskamp, which was one of more conservative members of Congress and he was primaried out in the last election. And then we had Mike Pompeo who is a conservative, and he was replaced and his replacement is voting mainly fairly RINO-ish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So you think that — you think conserve — let me try this again. You think that the blue wave is gonna be purple, made up of RINO types Republicans winning instead of conservative Republicans winning?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Yeah. I think you can\u2019t hide the Democrats. They\u2019ve just gone so far to the left that even Kanye is against them. But I think the RINOs can work their way in because they basically oppose Trump and they can hide behind their R.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh! Okay! Since you said — now I get what you\u2019re thinking. Here\u2019s what he\u2019s thinking. He\u2019s thinking the left has lost it so much that reasonable thinking people want nothing to do with \u2019em. People like that are so reasonable, they also hate Trump. Which creates an opening for RINO Republicans, who aren\u2019t the left and who also hate Trump, to come in and sweep the midterms. That\u2019s his theory. Right? Okay. What do you think of that?<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s so out there that nobody that\u2019s reasonable, nobody that\u2019s mainstream, nobody that\u2019s not already one of these extremist radicals will sign on to \u2019em, so they\u2019re a finite group. And over here you have the people that supported Trump. And Trump is not liked, either. And so the great middle is now the Republican-in-name-only group. They are Republicans, but they hate Trump. They hate Trump more than they hate the Democrats, but they still know that their voters hate the Democrats. And he\u2019s using what\u2019s happened in Kansas as evidence for this.<\/p>\n

Well, you know, as I say, I\u2019m fascinated by the way people think. I might make a note of this to make sure I don\u2019t forget it just to see if there is indeed some kind of purple wave somewhere. People have endless theories to explain what\u2019s gonna happen. I\u2019m still telling you, folks, the issues that are gonna determine the midterm elections, for the most part, haven\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that people that go to vote in November go to vote on things that happened last week or last month \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna remember specifically. They might have generic memories, but there are gonna be specific events that happen much closer to the election that are gonna be the determining factors. You wait. You\u2019ll see. It\u2019s always the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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