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CALLER: What we\u2019re looking at right now —<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Alexandria, Virginia. Will, it\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. Glad you waited. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Happy Monday, Rush. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, thank you for all you do. So I\u2019m gonna go on the record and I\u2019m gonna make a prediction, and I would love to get your reaction to this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hmm! All right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: All right. I predict that in the 2020 presidential election, what\u2019s gonna happen is President Trump is going to win. He\u2019s going to win by an Electoral College landslide, and he\u2019s also gonna win the popular vote. The reason I say this is, presidential elections are not nuanced. They are a very basic, binary choice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: What we\u2019re looking at right now —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Big word. For those of you in Rio Linda, “binary” means two options, two things, two choices, two circuits, two numbers, two whatever. Okay. So you think the election is about one of two things, two big issues?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think it\u2019s about, yes, two issues. It\u2019s either about socialism or capitalism. Pure and simple. The Democrat Party represents socialism or maybe even communism, and if Joe Biden is the best version of what they have to put forward and he\u2019s considered moderate, this is already over.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Nobody wants to mess with this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, don\u2019t get… Folks… Now, hang on here. Don\u2019t hang up, Will —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — and don\u2019t anybody get mad at him. Joe Biden is not a communist.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If Joe Biden is the nominee, they\u2019re gonna have to teach him how to be a communist and socialist. He\u2019s a moderate leftist. He is a liberal. There\u2019s no question he\u2019s a liberal. But he\u2019s not a Cortez, and he\u2019s not anything like these young Millennial socialists or college professor socialists and communists that you find. So he would have to be told how to do it, which is what his campaign has been up to now. (impression) “Joe, you — you — you gotta come out against the Hyde Amendment!” “Well, I\u2019ve been for it for 40 years.” “I don\u2019t care, Joe. As the nominee, you gotta be against the Hyde Amendment.”<\/p>\n
So Joe comes out against the Hyde Amendment, but he can\u2019t tell anybody why. Joe copies people — he\u2019s a plagiarist — because he doesn\u2019t have the ability to originate things on his own. Look, I don\u2019t think Biden\u2019s gonna be the nominee, gang. I think I… Did I say this last week? Did I go public? I don\u2019t think Biden\u2019s gonna be the nominee, but that\u2019s neither here nor there. Your main point is that elections are not complicated.<\/p>\n
The political consultants trying to make them all about nuance and this and that, what the Rust Belt wants versus the southern states versus the elites on both coasts. But really what it comes down to is something simple: Santa Claus or pay for it. Capitalism or socialism. Wall or no wall. Things like that. So you think that Trump\u2019s gonna win in both a public vote landslide and Electoral College landslide. So you must be saying that you think that there aren\u2019t nearly enough voters who are actually socialist or pro-socialist to elect a Democrat in 2020?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: That\u2019s what I would surmise, yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Can you tell me why? Because everything we see involving reporting on the left, their own commentary, everything would tend to believe that particularly young people are a rising tide of socialist-preferring people, who may not even know what it is, but it doesn\u2019t matter. They see the word and they like it. They think it\u2019s equality. They think it\u2019s fairness. They think it\u2019s sameness. They think it\u2019s “no hurt feelings.” They think “no losers.” That\u2019s what they think socialism is, and they\u2019re all for it — and Democrats are banking on the fact that it\u2019s a winner. That\u2019s where they\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Well, when I look at it, I can only view from my limited perspective, my limited view of things. Certainly, there\u2019s a swath of people — and maybe they\u2019re young; maybe they\u2019re older — who take that socialistic view. But from my perspective, things are becoming more and more polar and you have to make a choice. And maybe that young segment will pick that. But I suspect most of the country, apart from the yellow dog Democrat voters, are going to ask the question, “Do I really want to go the way that this stuff is going?”<\/p>\n
You look at where the Democrat Party is; it is greatest gift to the Republican Party right now, because all it is is spewing darkness, vileness, hatred, and anger toward one person. And all of those who voted for Trump, they\u2019re saying to you, “You\u2019re a horrible person, too. You are just as dark, because you would vote for a criminal.” Most of those people are probably quietly sitting and waiting for their opportunity to say, “I\u2019m not a criminal, I\u2019m a patriot, and I\u2019m gonna vote for the guy who\u2019s a patriot for this country.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there —<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll have to concede that there is logic in your approach here, and you can find nonscientific… (sigh) Well, I don\u2019t know if it is nonscientific. It\u2019s not just anecdotal. I mean, MSNBC and CNN are hemorrhaging audience. Now, what do you make of that? Does that mean less enthusiasm for Democrat issues, or does it mean that those two networks really screwed up by promising their audience Trump was going to jail, and now Trump\u2019s not only not going to jail, he\u2019s still running? Now that Mueller didn\u2019t find any collusion, the Democrats… Pelosi doesn\u2019t want to impeach, and so those people got nothing to listen to anymore. There\u2019s nothing to watch.<\/p>\n
I mean, they tuned in simply to be reassured that Trump was gonna be executed politically, sent off to Siberia or wherever. We were gonna be rid of him and Hillary was gonna be put in the Oval Office. When it became obvious that wasn\u2019t gonna happen, they said, “I don\u2019t need these networks anymore.” But does it mean that they don\u2019t want to vote for Crazy Bernie or Biden or any of the others? I think my gut perception of things now… The last time I was on Fox, I got a question similar to yours. It was about cultural attitudes.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t remember the specific instance, but it was about decay and rot in our culture, and I answered, “There are so many more people that are repulsed by this and they can\u2019t wait to vote against it and so forth,” and the person on Fox said, “Wait a minute. Haven\u2019t we already lost this? Haven\u2019t we already lost the culture war? Isn\u2019t that what this…?” I said, “No way!” I said exactly what you just said. “There are invisible people out there left and right who are repulsed by what\u2019s going on, and they\u2019re never talked to. They\u2019re never reached.<\/p>\n
“The media\u2019s not interested in who they are — and if they are ever found, if they do ever speak up, they\u2019re mocked and ridiculed and made fun of as a bunch of Victorian prisses, and so they just remain silent and so forth.” So you\u2019re essentially saying that there are a lot of people out there that are just fit to be tied over the way Trump is being treated here, and they\u2019ve got no outlet for it other than an election. Your point about elections being binary is a good one too. They\u2019re not as nuanced as we would like to think. I\u2019ll never forget the 2002 midterms. The elections in 2002, the midterms, they upended everything.<\/p>\n
They stood every bit of conventional wisdom on its head. That\u2019s why I never forget it. The first thing that happened in those elections, those are the first elections after George W. Bush was elected in 2000. And you know the drill now. The party that holds the White House traditionally loses lots of seats in the House of Representatives in the first midterm election after a presidential election.<\/p>\n
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Nobody knows exactly why. The conventional wisdom is that voters realized the mistake they made voting for the president and they take it out against his party. I\u2019ve always thought that was caca. But absent anything else, we\u2019ll go with it. In that election, the 2002 election, the Republicans gained seats, and it came after the Wellstone memorial, which was a condensed version of what the Democrat Party has been since election night 2016.<\/p>\n
The Wellstone memorial was an absolute disaster for the Democrat Party. It was ostensibly a memorial service quasi-funeral for Paul Wellstone that they turned into one of the most mean-spirited, caustic, anti-American political rallies. Republican senators, friends of Wellstone were booed out of the place, some violently threatened, and they had to leave.<\/p>\n
The second thing about those elections that stunned me, the number one issue in exit polls was values. Values is a nationwide issue. These are congressional races. The midterms are always House of Representatives, election Senate, you know, one-third of the Senate is up. But the number one issue that got people out was values.<\/p>\n
Nobody was really talking about values. It was in the after 9\/11 period when this happened, and I should mention the Democrats were highlighted in exit polls as being very weak on traditional values. And I\u2019ll never forget for two weeks the Democrats are running around promising everybody they\u2019re gonna look at this, we\u2019re gonna get this right.<\/p>\n
Everybody was stunned that values — you remember this? — that values was the number one issue in the exit polls that got people out to vote and determined their vote. And nobody could remember values being part of the campaign. So elections contain shock, surprises often. That one stands itself upside down in how it violated conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n
And there are microcosms in that year that the Democrats have been portraying and fulfilling for two and a half years now. I mean, if you look at things in the normal confines of decency and normalcy where we all think we have manners and that we all are relatively polite and we\u2019re respectful, and we try to do the right thing.<\/p>\n
Look, I know there are exceptions to all this, nobody\u2019s perfect, but there is nothing, folks, there isn\u2019t a single thing about the Democrat media-industrial complex behavior since election night 2016 that is in any way normal. It is rooted in hatred daily, compounded hatred. It looks like hysteria. It looks like arrogance. There\u2019s nothing redeeming about it. It\u2019s not the kind of behavior that is magnetic and attracts people to it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing about the way the media and the Democrats, just in the daily treatment of Donald Trump and the people that work for him. And it is rooted in a personal hatred for Trump because he had the audacity to win and because he is such an abnormal outsider that they still can\u2019t accept it, they still can\u2019t come to grips with it, and it\u2019s causing them to behave in ways — like George Will said the other day that if your kid behaved like Donald Trump you\u2019d send him to bed without supper, proving that George Will knows how to starve children.<\/p>\n
But in truth, who is actually behaving badly here? The Democrats, the media are out of control to people who watch. Now, you have to understand that a certain significant percentage of America is eating it up. They\u2019re loving it, they behave the same way. You see \u2019em on Twitter. You see \u2019em out there in other social media.<\/p>\n
Question is, how big is that number? Are we approaching 50-50 status, half the country is this mean, this irrational, this jaundiced? We don\u2019t know. We assume not. But we don\u2019t know. That\u2019s why we have elections. Sometimes elections don\u2019t answer these questions specifically. They answer other questions. But I appreciate the call. It was good.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve been thinking about this caller that we had 20 minutes ago who wanted to know the “binary” suggestion, that the 2020 campaign will be a binary election. It will be socialism versus capitalism, capitalism versus communism-socialism, what have you. Our caller believes that if that indeed is the question, that Trump wins in a landslide. “He wins, in a landslide, the popular vote; he wins in a landslide in the Electoral College,” and he wanted my opinion on that. I hem-hawed around, circled around the question.<\/p>\n
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By the time time ran out, I had never gotten there. So this is the benefit of having the next hour. I can circle back to it, and I can get my two cents on this. I think the caller\u2019s on to something. There\u2019s part of me… I\u2019ll be honest with you, folks — and I probably shouldn\u2019t say is this. (chuckles) But that binary choice scares me because I\u2019m not sure. I would hate to lose an election where it is obvious that what\u2019s on the ballot is socialism\/communism versus capitalism. Whew! (interruption) Well, because we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
We can do our best. We can use common sense to try to analyze where the country is and where it\u2019s going and who wants it to go in directions other than those it\u2019s going. Culturally, there\u2019s no question. Culturally and socially, there\u2019s no question that we\u2019re trending away from what we would all call decency and normalcy. But has that reach majority status or not? Economically, when you start talking capitalism and socialism, we\u2019re all prisoners to what we see in media, and we — “we,” people like us — have to constantly remind ourselves that we\u2019re watching fake news.<\/p>\n
I mean, every story, you have to remind yourself that we\u2019re watching fake news. ‘Cause I\u2019m telling you, folks, in the Drive-By Media, capitalism is pass. Capitalism is mean, capitalism is defunct, capitalism\u2019s been proven to be unfair. It\u2019s causing climate change, all this horrible, rotten stuff! The only people you see on Drive-By Media are people who think like that. That\u2019s easy to convey, which is one of the media\u2019s tricks is trying to convey that they represent the majority — “reflect,” I should better say, the majority — of the thinking in the country.<\/p>\n
But I don\u2019t think so, and I actually think that this argument, capitalism versus socialism… Despite my fears about it, I think it\u2019s the campaign we needed to have. I think it needs to happen. I really do. We all do, because why? We have the quintessential capitalist in office. We don\u2019t have to elect the quintessential capitalist. We\u2019ve already, fortunately, done that. There isn\u2019t anybody better out there we could have as the quintessential capitalist. Now, I realize a lot of people are gonna hear me say this…<\/p>\n
“Rush, this guy is doing more damage to whatever it is he believes in than you can possibly imagine.” I reject that. I think it\u2019s media caca. I think it\u2019s Democrat Party caca. I reject that totally. Now, the quintessential socialist. Who would be the quintessential socialist? Who\u2019s the best representative of pure, undiluted socialism? Right now, it\u2019s Crazy Bernie, who is plummeting in the polls. It would have been Bernie in 2016 if Hillary hadn\u2019t rigged the deck against him using foreign meddling. (interruption) Well, Elizabeth Warren\u2019s a close second. Elizabeth Warren… (interruption) I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s gonna survive.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Warren would be a good stand-in for Bernie as the quintessential socialist, because what\u2019s her nom de plume? “You didn\u2019t build that! You didn\u2019t make that happen. You don\u2019t own that. You didn\u2019t do diddly-squat. You fed off all of us. If we hadn\u2019t built the roads and the sewers, you wouldn\u2019t have built the factory. So screw you!” So there you have a great socialist in Fauxcahontas, which is a fake Indian, which Trump will have fun with. But the point, the argument has to happen. We\u2019re building to it.<\/p>\n
It has to happen. It has to happen. There have to vote on this. Now, one vote\u2019s not gonna end it. I mean, if the 2020 election is, without question, socialism versus capitalism and socialism loses, they\u2019re not just gonna pack up and go home and say, “Okay. Well, I guess we have to become capitalists, then.” They\u2019re gonna become even more enraged than they are now, more destructive, more destructive than they are now. But I think it\u2019s the argument that\u2019s going on in the country right now anyway.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just not called that, but that\u2019s what the argument in the country is. What kind of country we want is the argument taking place now. So we may as well just say what it is and look at it as there are two visions for this country. I thought it would have made a great theme for Trump\u2019s State of the Union show back in January. It turned out, he did a great one anyway. But I think that it\u2019s made to order for this, and the quintessential capitalist has evidence out the wazoo.<\/p>\n
Socialists have promised from the beginning of time. Oh, and on the Democrat campaign stage will be none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez making the case and defending Venezuela and defending Cuba and trashing Walmart. Uh, Amazon. Six of one, half dozen of the other. But because I think that it\u2019s the argument taking place right now… It may be buried briefly or just slightly underneath the surface, but it is the argument that\u2019s taking place, especially on matters economic.<\/p>\n The primary reason why I think I could shed my fears over this and just go pedal-to-the-metal with it is we couldn\u2019t have a better champion for capitalism running this election than Trump, who we\u2019ve got now. I mean… (laughing) I mean, you want to put Romney in there as the capitalist champ? He could do it, but would he stand up for it? John Kasich? (interruption) No, don\u2019t think so. (interruption) Do I think what? (interruption) That what? (interruption) Socialism…? (interruption) Oh, the question I\u2019m being asked is, “Does socialism have an appeal beyond the urban populated centers of the great cities — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles?” Feces capitals. Are Millennials outside of…? (interruption) Yeah.<\/p>\n Socialism is appealing greatly to Millennials who don\u2019t know what it is! They think it\u2019s fairness and equality. They put the word “democratic” in front of it to water it down. The people selling socialism to Millennials don\u2019t call it that. They call it democratic socialism. \u201cOoh, democratic meaning we vote for it, yeah, it\u2019s fair and it\u2019s equal and there\u2019s no losers and nobody laughs at anybody and there\u2019s no punishment. And, yeah, cool, man,\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what percentage of Millennials are trending toward socialism. I suspect it\u2019s not any greater than young generations in the past always trending toward this faux fairness, faux no pain politics, no suffering, no embarrassment, nobody gets laughed at, nobody loses, everybody wins. Young generations are filled with people who think like that. (interruption) Okay. Well, there\u2019s always been student debt. You\u2019re claiming it\u2019s never been as high as it is now. Okay.<\/p>\n Well, Elizabeth Warren\u2019s got a solution to that. Forgive it. And that will be attractive. \u201cYou mean I just have to vote for the fake Indian and my student loans are gone?\u201d You got it, dude. That\u2019s it. Vote fake Indian, and your student loans are wiped out. \u201cHey, man, like sign me up.\u201d<\/p>\n But then you say, \u201cBut if you vote for the fake Indian, you don\u2019t even need to go to school because you\u2019re gonna get a free job. You don\u2019t need an education, and you don\u2019t need a job because you\u2019re gonna get a guaranteed annual wage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow much, man?\u201d Six grand a year to start. I mean, she\u2019s gonna make it easy to campaign against socialism. Because they\u2019re gonna make the mistake, they\u2019re gonna assume that everybody already is there. I don\u2019t think those people are actually gonna try to sell it much, as though their attitude is gonna just be to confirm that we\u2019re already there and get on board. And they\u2019re making a mistake. Because it does need to be sold. There\u2019s more people in this country than you can shake a stick at that want no part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I think it needs to happen. I really do. We all do, because why? We have the quintessential capitalist in office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":312552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-American-Greatness-TEARAWAY-061719-Davis-Hanson.jpg\")
<\/a>Read the Victor Davis Hanson column that I skimmed for you today<\/a> or just chalk up what you already know about the United States, in less than three years, becoming an exporter of natural gas and oil. Solving our manager problems, no longer dependent, while bringing down the price to the consumer at the same time. Look at capitalist policies and what they do for minority employment, minority standards of living versus 50 years of socialist promises versus…? Fifty years. They\u2019re from-the-beginning-of-time promises!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-061719-Soviet-Russia-America-FLAGS-061719-Trump-Warren-Sanders-Bernie.jpg\")
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