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<\/p>\nRUSH: John, Peoria, Illinois. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. I\u2019m so excited to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you made it through.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019m a longtime listener since the early to mid-nineties, I think. I know you have other people waiting. I want to get to my question real quick. We\u2019re all aware of Trump\u2019s accomplishments with the low unemployment, getting the border under control, household income is up. I love what he\u2019s doing with the military. I\u2019m an ex-Navy man myself. The list goes on and on. Personally, I think Trump will win in a landslide in 2020. I don\u2019t think the Dems have anybody that can compete with him at this point. That\u2019s not the part I\u2019m worried about. But things are going so well, I want to see it continue. I feel we\u2019re going in the right direction, finally, and my concern is 2024. Who do you see that can carry this on at that point?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s see, 2024?<\/p>\n
CALLER: What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Maybe Ivanka Trump by 2024. I\u2019m looking at the faces of the staff. Don\u2019t laugh. Do not reject that. Here\u2019s the thing. No, that far out, it\u2019s really impossible. But let\u2019s use some history. Let\u2019s go back to the eight years of Reagan. The eight years of Reagan as far as the Republican Party were just awesome, but they couldn\u2019t wait to get rid of Reagan. Mainstream Washington Republicans couldn\u2019t wait. They wanted to bask in the light and the glow of the popularity of Reagan.<\/p>\n
But they couldn\u2019t wait \u2019til he was gone because they wanted to banish the Reagan influence, conservatism and so forth. I suspect that if there still is a traditional mainstream Republican Party in 2024 — if Trump has not remade the Republican Party so it\u2019s basically reflected in his image\/agenda — then the same thing is gonna happen. The Republican Party establishment, whoever it is, is going to relish the opportunity to get rid of all of the vestiges of Trumpism. It\u2019s something that happened after Reagan\u2019s two terms. Now, I\u2019ve gotta take a break because of time. I\u2019m gonna expand on this \u2019cause it\u2019s actually a very good question.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, on the question of what goes beyond Trump 2024? Make some assumptions here that Trump\u2019s gonna win in 2020, and then, you know, most presidents\u2019 second terms do not… They\u2019re immediate lame ducks. Second-term presidents are immediate lame ducks. From the moment a president wins reelection, the news shifts to the news shifts to the next presidential election \u2019cause the guy in the Oval Office is a lame duck. He can\u2019t run again. So both parties start positioning for who\u2019s gonna be the next president.<\/p>\n
Sitting presidents doing their second terms have to struggle to stay at the front of the daily news agenda every day. Trump will have no trouble doing this, by the way. I think Trump is going to be unlike many, if not all, second-term presidents. There is a pattern. Second-term presidents… Especially once the first year of the second term is complete, then lame duck status really sets in. Scandal usually befalls second-term presidents. The staff begins to quit in the second term, because everybody knows it\u2019s ending and it\u2019s time to capitalize on all the hard work that the staff has put in.<\/p>\n
So they want to cash in and make big bucks in the private sector. If there are any remaining scandals, it\u2019s when the media finds them and people in the administration begin to leak. Second-term presidencies have always been this way. It was Iran-Contra for Reagan. For Obama, it was a combination of the Obamacare; the trashy, bad economy; Hillary Clinton being the heir. Nobody was excited about that. But Trump, I think, has a chance to redefine the standard operating behavior of second-term presidencies simply based on his ability to take up all the oxygen in the room.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t think… As long as Trump\u2019s president, he\u2019s going to remain the focus of the media each and every day. I don\u2019t think they have the ability to look beyond him. They\u2019ll try. So we assume that Trump\u2019s second term is a build on his first term, that the progress continues. The economy continues to roar. The immigration problem gets fixed. Opposition to Trump will continue. So let\u2019s assume here that after Trump\u2019s two terms, he\u2019s still relatively popular and in these two terms has redefined the Republican Party so that it\u2019s now his.<\/p>\n
If that doesn\u2019t happen, we\u2019re gonna have a repeat of what happened when Reagan finished his second term, and that is the mainstream Republican Party is gonna wave good-bye to Trump and everything that was Trump, and they\u2019re gonna start reasserting. They\u2019ll nominate some mainstream, Never Trumper guy to be president claiming to get their party back, claiming the Trump years were an aberration. And then it will be up to Trump how he wants to build on the end of his second term.<\/p>\n
Some presidents at the end of the second term, say, “This is it. Whatever you people want to do next, fine with me. I\u2019m outta here. I\u2019m leaving.” Other presidents, like, Obama had a plan. Hillary was gonna be his third term and his fourth term. Whatever Hillary did was gonna be seen as building on Obama and his grand plan. She blew it all by losing. So while it\u2019s way in the future, impossible to predict, there are some known things about Trump that we can safely say are vastly different from the norm.<\/p>\n
And that he has an opportunity here to actually construct an agenda that survives long after he does. Which, if I were ever a president, that would be my objective, by the way. I would want to do things in such a way that the left couldn\u2019t tear it down, at least not easily. I mean, they\u2019re gonna win sometimes, and they will have some success. But I think Trump will be that kind of second-term president. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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