RUSH: Here is Ann in Minnesota. Great to have you on the program. Hi. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush! Mega dittos. It\u2019s a great honor to talk to you today.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: My question had to do with the prediction you had a couple weeks ago about Trump having to cancel his rallies due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Over the weekend, as I\u2019m sure you know, Jackie Speier said just as much, that he doesn\u2019t care about his supporters if he continues to hold his rallies.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep!<\/p>\n
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CALLER: My question is, do they really think that everybody is that stupid? Because they haven\u2019t suggested canceling their primaries or their debates or their early voting where all the voting machines, I\u2019m sure, are germ infested. Now, granted, not as many people show up to their rallies so the risk might not be as high. But I\u2019m just wondering what your thoughts are on that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I think your instincts on that are especially right. Jackie Speier is… I thought I had the Jackie Speier sound bite. When you were on hold here, I was looking for it and I didn\u2019t find it. Is she with ABC?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. She\u2019s in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s right. She\u2019s a member of Congress.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m confusing her with Jackie something or other, a former ABC —<\/p>\n
CALLER: She was being interviewed by somebody, and I don\u2019t remember which media outlet it was.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Six of one, half dozen of the other. Doesn\u2019t matter. The network person could just as easily be the member of Congress.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Exactly. Yeah, they\u2019re the same thing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Well, obviously this is why they\u2019re hyping this is to get Trump to stop the rallies. But let me tell why it is. Let me tell you why it is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They have… Brad Parscale, who is the Trump campaign manager… They record, they categorize everybody at a Trump rally that will participate, and in just like the last five or six Trump rallies, you know how many have been Democrats? It\u2019s 18,000.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I can tell you from the rally I went to in Minnesota that that was the case. It was actually 30% at the one I was at.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Were Democrats?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Democrats out the wazoo are showing up at Trump rallies. This is why they want these rallies stopped. This is why. It\u2019s not because of public safety, not because of public health. Because — as you point out — they\u2019re not making an effort to shut down every other opportunity for people to congregate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. So it makes no sense.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I just think the majority of people… I mean, granted their base won\u2019t, but the majority of people can see through that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. No, but it makes perfect sense from their standpoint. If you can\u2019t beat Trump and if you want to stop the appearance of excitement about the Trump campaign, then stop the rallies — and if you\u2019re really worried about that so many people attending rallies are actually Democrats, then you\u2019ve really gotta shut \u2019em down.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling) Yep. Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here. I\u2019ve got a couple of sound bites here — and thank you, Ann, for the phone call. Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite number seven here. This is Rahm Emanuel, who I\u2019ve already shared with you is the latest Democrat to discuss the cornonavirus as an opportunity for the Democrats. So Rahm was on with his buddy George Stephanopoulos. Both of these guys are from the Clinton war room operation. I mean, Rahm Emanuel was Obama\u2019s chief of staff.<\/p>\n
Before that, he was a Clinton fundraiser. These people are just incestuous. They\u2019re back and forth. Stephanopoulos ran the war room to go after all the women that were coming forward claiming Clinton had mistreated them, and here they are. They\u2019re talking about the coronavirus and the panic, and Stephanopoulos says, “Rahm, sometimes when people hear, ‘Don\u2019t panic\u2019 from a government leader, they do just that. They go out and panic.”<\/p>\n
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EMANUEL: Here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be devastating for Donald Trump. He is not gonna be able to have his rallies. And it is gonna psychologically — the office is isolating enough. And his inability to get the admiration, the adulation from that crowd is gonna psychologically torment him. And his isolation is gonna get more intense, and his tweets are gonna get more vicious.<\/p>\n
STEPHANOPOULOS: He hasn\u2019t been willing to give up on the rallies yet.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They don\u2019t get this at all. You know, folks, I sit here literally — I have now for four years — in stunned amazement over the inability of the Democrats to understand these rallies. And this comment from Rahm Emanuel informs me of just how ignorant about this they are, and it\u2019s worse than I thought.<\/p>\n
These guys actually think these rallies are done for the psychological health of Donald Trump? That\u2019s what they think? And that if these relies ceased, that somehow Donald Trump\u2019s psychological health would plummet because Donald Trump cannot survive without a daily display of thousands of people showing him how much they love and adore him?<\/p>\n
These are political professionals whose job it is to try to figure out why their opponents are beating them and to figure out ways to stop that and to beat their opponents, and these people — folks, it\u2019s stunning how far off the mark they remain when it comes to understanding Donald Trump and you, his supporters. They still can\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n
And you know what the root of it is? In their world, they simply cannot accept or understand that thousands of people independently are deciding to attend these rallies because they want to. They do not seem to grasp or understand the value that people attending the rallies get out of them.<\/p>\n
As far as they are concerned, these people show up because Donald Trump needs the encouragement, that Donald Trump needs the psychological reinforcement, and that the people in the audience are just a bunch of props, and they\u2019ve been rounded up and they\u2019ve been told to go to the arena at the appropriate time and make sure you tell Trump how much you love him \u2019cause Trump can\u2019t survive without you doing that.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m literally becoming out of words to describe. This is beyond stupidity. And it is beyond ignorance. This is beyond arrogance. I don\u2019t know how to describe this. Here, listen to this again. This is the most — I think I got these people figured out. I think there\u2019s nobody but nobody who understands liberals and the left better than I. I understand them better than they understand themselves. And this is at an entirely new level that I\u2019m now gonna have to deeply analyze and explain. Listen again.<\/p>\n
EMANUEL: Here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be devastating for Donald Trump. He is not gonna be able to have his rallies. And it is gonna psychologically — the office is isolating enough. And his inability to get the admiration, the adulation from that crowd is gonna psychologically torment him. And his isolation is gonna get more intense, and his tweets are gonna get more vicious.<\/p>\n
STEPHANOPOULOS: He hasn\u2019t been willing to give up on the rallies yet.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Folks, I honestly, the — let\u2019s just take this. “Here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be devastating for Donald Trump. He\u2019s not gonna be able to have his rallies.” Yes, he is. He\u2019s not gonna stop them. Who says he can\u2019t do the rallies? They think it\u2019s gonna be automatic he can\u2019t do the rallies \u2019cause of the coronavirus. Another way they\u2019re attempting to politicize this.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s gonna psychologically — see, the office is isolating enough. His inability to get the admiration, the adulation from that crowd is gonna psychologically torment him.” You guys, Donald Trump loves himself. He adores himself. He admires himself, independently of anybody else. Oh, yeah, he\u2019s like anybody else, he loves people loving him and all that. But you think the guy\u2019s gonna be lost if he can\u2019t do his rallies?<\/p>\n
Do you not understand why people are going to these rallies? Do you understand the mind-set of the people? Do you think these are just a bunch of mind numb robots being funneled in there to keep Trump\u2019s psychology healthy and that if those rallies stopped Trump\u2019s psychology is gonna collapse?<\/p>\n
I have never seen a professional organization — in this case the Democrat Party — be so divorced from the reality of their own circumstances and existence as to listen to these two blowhards attempt to psychoanalyze Trump and his audience with not even the faintest glimpse or glimmer of understanding of the people who are attending these rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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