{"id":3467,"date":"2016-05-06T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:27:22","slug":"why_it_s_so_hard_for_the_washington_establishment_to_line_up_behind_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/06\/why_it_s_so_hard_for_the_washington_establishment_to_line_up_behind_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It\u2019s So Hard for the Washington Establishment to Line Up Behind Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Jackson, New Jersey. Lucy, you\u2019re first. Thank you for calling. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my question. Firstly, I think it will be fair to say that Hillary Clinton will be dangerous for all of us, Republicans and Democrats alike, if she were to become president. I think that\u2019s really a given. But let me get to my question. Maybe it\u2019s a very simplistic question. I just don\u2019t understand why the Republican Party… Why don\u2019t they just face reality? Instead of panicking, scaring everyone away from voting Republican, why don\u2019t they just rally behind Trump and behind the scenes quietly and effectively be the brains behind him?<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Well, um… (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I think that Trump has good intentions. I think that they would be able to work with him, as long as they just have a constant ego massager on board.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s my frustration here, Lucy. I can answer your question. I\u2019ve answered this question. Do not… I\u2019m not reacting negatively to you. Please don\u2019t misunderstand me here. I\u2019m not mad and I\u2019m not frustrated with you at all. I have answered this question over and over again time and time and time again. I\u2019m not could you give you of not listening. I\u2019m just prefacing this. I\u2019ve answered it all last fall starting in August after the first debate, right through February-March. Your question: Why do these various groups on the right — this conservative or that conservative, conservative movement here or the Republican Party, individual Republicans.<\/p>\n

Why do they not just line up behind Trump and focus on Hillary as the as the enemy and be done with it? And let me see if there\u2019s a brief way of rehashing what I have explained over and over again. I think what we\u2019re witnessing: actually things I predicted last fall. Because this degree of panic<\/a>, fright, fear, anger is so deep, it almost seems like the effect on these people is personal. And the reason they\u2019re not lining up behind Trump is because Trump is blowing up the existing order. His victory — well, his assumed victory as the nominee — is blowing up the existing order.<\/p>\n

And if he became president, it would blow it up even more, in these people\u2019s minds. One example. I\u2019ve mentioned it a couple of times, if not more. In the establishment, it\u2019s basically a network. It\u2019s a closed club. Think of it as a country club. Is there…? Where you live, is there a club that won\u2019t let you in? Whether it\u2019s a garden club, a country club, whatever, knitting club, I don\u2019t care whatever club it is. Is there a club that won\u2019t let you? And are the people in that club thinking they\u2019re better than everybody else, and do the people in that club only hang around with each other?<\/p>\n

And do the people of that club take care of each other, their kids, their families, and so forth? That\u2019s what you\u2019re dealing with here on a much, much bigger, bigger scale. It\u2019s an entire political party and every apparatus involved in it from the lobbyists to the think tanks, some of them, to the actual elected officials, to the people that run the party at the RNC. Some of them. It is a very closed-knit circle, and its strength and power depends on the Republican Party in the hands of one of them.<\/p>\n


\nThe membership in the club is the insulation against the daily grind that a lot of other people face. It\u2019s insulation, protection against perhaps economic downturns or a kid getting fired and needing to find a job real quick or just take any example you can where connections, as opposed to merit, determine your standard of living — the way you party, the way you spend your leisure time. Somebody comes along and upsets that and makes membership in that club not nearly as meaningful, \u2019cause he\u2019s not in it?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not nearly as powerful. If the most powerful Republican in the country doesn\u2019t want to be in that club, well, he\u2019s gonna have his own. And so there are lot of people personally threatened here. When you get to the “conservative movement,” so-called… I said the other day on this program, I\u2019m not even sure there is one. But for the purposes of discussion here just to make myself understood — and I said all this before, too, and I really can\u2019t believe I didn\u2019t get any blowback on it. Maybe I did and I just didn\u2019t run across it. You\u2019ve had people, some of them very fine people…<\/p>\n

But you\u2019ve had people fundraising for longer than I\u2019ve been around. They have been raising money, asking for donations, because they are laying the groundwork for conservatism in Washington. They have contacts with policymakers on Capitol Hill. And they are how conservatism will stay relevant and maybe even dominant in the Republican Party. But it all hinges on donors sending money to them. And their pitch has always been they are the personal guardians of conservatism. They are the ones you can trust to constantly protect it, defend it, and grow it.<\/p>\n


\nWell, a guy like Trump coming along kind of threatens the whole deal, makes people start wondering, “Wait a minute. Why did I send you all that money?” I\u2019m talking about people that didn\u2019t vote for Trump, I\u2019m talking about people who don\u2019t like Trump. They\u2019ve donated to these causes under the premise that what they believed in was being guarded, protected, advanced, multiplied, grown. And then in a couple of months, somebody a lot of people consider to be a gauche, coarse reprobate can come along and sweep everybody out of the way? It\u2019s a threat, and so signing up with this guy, lining up with this guy…<\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re all out there saying (many of them), “He\u2019s not a conservative! He\u2019s not a conservative! He\u2019s not a conservative! You can\u2019t… You can\u2019t go with Trump! He\u2019s not a conservative.” Conservatism is the magnet, the sales pitch, whatever. Conservatism is the reason for existence. If it\u2019s this fragile… I mean, if somebody like Trump can come along and swamp it and swarm it, well, a lot of people are afraid. “Oh, my gosh, some of our donors are gonna figure it out.”<\/p>\n

Look, there are many offshoots of this, too, and in uttering this, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. I\u2019m not launching into any criticism of how anybody makes a living or anything. She asked me, “Why don\u2019t people line up behind Trump?” and I\u2019m telling you what I think, and there\u2019s a whole thing more reasons than what I\u2019ve given you be. But many of them are related. The more the vitriol, the more personal it seems to me to be. I could be wrong about that, too. But enough of that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, there\u2019s one more answer to the question, “Why don\u2019t people line up behind Trump?” And it\u2019s this. There are some people who are true-blue, red, white, and blue, top-to-bottom, front-to-back, wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor conservatives. It\u2019s the essence of their existence, and they are appalled by Trump. They don\u2019t think he is. They are scared. They have devoted their lives to conservatism and promoting it, and they are in utter panic that somebody like Trump can come along and simply… Well, however they perceive whatever\u2019s happened to happen.<\/p>\n

Wipe it out, dominate it, trounce it, what have you. I mean, my point is that there\u2019s some true believers in there, too, that really feel hurt and scared because they\u2019ve poured everything they\u2019ve got into it, and they\u2019re scared to death. And it\u2019s apparently so fragile that, in their minds, a carnival barker can come around and talk people out of what they have believed for ten years, 15, 20 years, whatever. And so it frightens them for the future of the movement that they so love, and it frightens them for the future of the country. I mean, you\u2019ve got countless number of reasons to explain why people on the Republican side will not line up with Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: James in Richmond. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing? Trump may have rearranged the party recently, but it all started with Eric Cantor. I live in his district, and when we threw him out and elected [David] Brat, that was a major change that started this whole thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, “started what whole thing”?<\/p>\n

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\nCALLER: I believe the way we feel, that we\u2019re fed up with the Republicans in Washington, that we sent them there and they did nothing. They\u2019ve done nothing. They haven\u2019t gone up against the press; they haven\u2019t gone up against Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, I get that. But what did it start? Are you saying that was the first block to fall that led to Trump? Are you saying that…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I think it was the first incident that started, you know, what ended up with Trump, that the guy who was next in line for speaker was defeated in a primary, but somebody who had never been elected, beat him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the thing. That… I\u2019ll tell you, you\u2019re right about that. That was momentous from the establishment perspective. They couldn\u2019t believe it. Eric Cantor had raised, what? My memory says $6 million or something for his race, and he was. He was next in line to be speaker, and the establishment thought that Cantor\u2019s district voters were impressed by that, that that was the kind of thing that voters voted on. That mattered that their guy — that their representative, their member of Congress — he was gonna be speaker someday. And he was dispatched! I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve yet gotten over that, to tell you the truth.<\/p>\n

That began a, shall we say, attitudinal bitterness at the establishment level. Now, I don\u2019t know to what degree that has any impact here on Trump. It might. It\u2019s hard to take a single incident when there have been a whole lot of things happen cumulatively, that had a cumulative effect, impact on things. But clearly that was a shocker. And when that happened, the establishment, you know, they said, “Oh, yeah? All right! Then you think…?” They refused to get that message. They fought back against the message. I mean, their attitude of his defeat was, “Oh, yeah? You think that, you voters? Well, we\u2019ll show you!” I mean, it was no way that the establishment was gonna, quote, “learn any lesson from that,” unquote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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