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RUSH: Mesa, Arizona, next. Jeremy, great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for letting me on. My question for you has to do with Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy. With a couple things that he said and with articles that have been out there, it seems like he\u2019s gonna be a little weaker on foreign policy and not be the police of the world, as he said, and maybe be more Libertarian. What do you think about that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the problem with trying to make these kinds of assessments is that all we\u2019ve got to go on is what Trump says. And not that you can\u2019t rely on it. It\u2019s just that there is no real-world test in a foreign policy question that Trump\u2019s faced yet. It\u2019s not a disqualification by any stretch. Don\u2019t misunderstand me. My assessment is that Trump\u2019s theme is America\u2019s gonna kick ass again. And I take that to mean, I mean, he\u2019s been very blunt, he\u2019s not gonna let the Mexicans run rings around us. He\u2019s not gonna let the ChiComs run rings around us. The Iranian deal is a bad deal. <\/p>\n

I think, you know, in direct relations with these countries, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything Libertarian about him at all. I think he\u2019s gonna be full-blown American national. When it comes to little hot spots and skirmishes all over the world and whether or not we\u2019re gonna send a little force here and little force there, that\u2019s what I think he means he\u2019s not gonna get involved in. But he\u2019s also said he\u2019s gonna have the best minds he can find to advise him on these kinds of things. <\/p>\n

Look, folks, you know, you are a gonna have to find ways, if you\u2019re a Trump supporter, you\u2019re gonna have to find ways to comfort yourself. Look at what he said to the woman who was the Jeb Bush plant at the No Labels Problem Solvers meeting<\/a> in New Hampshire yesterday. Here\u2019s this Jeb Bush worker, campaign worker, shows up in there and tries to trip Trump up on a question about women. And one of her last points was, “And as a woman, am I going to have the right to do with my body what I want to do with my body? “I\u2019m pro-life. You should know that I\u2019m pro-life.” That\u2019s probably gonna come as a surprise to a lot of Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

The same thing happened during the Perot campaign. I mean, Perot took positions that were at variance with some of his most ardent supporters, and they had to find a way to either rationalize it or subordinate those things that they disagreed with Trump on and say, “Okay, fine and dandy, not the most important thing happening in the country right now” and look the other way. This is something people are gonna have to come to grips with. Trump made the point. Let me give you the headline. This is from TheHill.com<\/a>. “Trump: I will be much less divisive as field narrows. Donald Trump said yesterday at a bipartisan convention –” this is this No Labels thing “– he said he defended his harsh jabs at opponents as mainly defensive and necessary given the crowded field.” He said (paraphrasing), “Look, I\u2019m running against a lot of people. Many are gonna be dropping out, I think very soon. If they\u2019re smart, they\u2019re gonna be dropping out. There are too many people in this thing.” <\/p>\n

“He promised to rein in his punches once the field narrows. He said, ‘When it becomes a different kind of situation out there, we\u2019ll see I\u2019m gonna be much less divisive,\u2019 he told the crowd at No Labels.” Now, right before saying this, he had really torn into Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as puppets. He said, believe me, they\u2019re puppets, talking about the fact that they are subordinate to all the donors that are giving them money. He\u2019s not taking any money at all, and when the donors give you money, they\u2019re demanding results, you\u2019re gonna have to satisfy them. He said, “I\u2019m not gonna have that problem. I\u2019m not taking any of their money.” <\/line><\/p>\n

What do you think of this? What do you think of Trump saying, “I\u2019m gonna be much less divisive?” Is that an admission that he\u2019s being divisive now? Is that what he meant to say? I\u2019m gonna be much less divisive, or did he mean to say I\u2019m gonna be much less combative because there aren\u2019t gonna be as many combatants. He said, “Look, I don\u2019t go after anybody. I don\u2019t say a thing about anybody \u2019til they come after me, and when they come after me, I punch back, that\u2019s what I do, but I don\u2019t get up every day and say who can I attack today, who am I going to attack today. I wait \u2019til I\u2019m attacked.” And he says since there are gonna be fewer people, there will be fewer attacks, and I will be less divisive. <\/p>\n

I think what he meant to say was less combative. If that means he\u2019s gonna mellow out, what portion of his support base likes the up front, nothing hidden, in-your-face, here\u2019s who I am and here\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do. If that gets moderated, are people gonna end up being disappointed? We won\u2019t know this until any of it happens. And your question, “Is he gonna be more Libertarian on foreign policy based on things that he said?” Some of this is gonna require a roll of the dice, like it does with any candidate, by the way.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s the thing, folks, about Trump, and I think this is where most people do come down on Trump, but I think where most people are gonna come down on Trump, and that is this. The thing about Trump is that he is on the right side, I mean, the correct side of the most important issue of our times, and that is illegal alienship. He is right about that, and that is what\u2019s carrying him, that\u2019s what\u2019s sustaining him, that\u2019s what propels him. This is where people like David Brooks, for example, have totally abandoned not only the conservative reservation, but in some sense the American reservation. And it\u2019s crucial. It is the issue of our times. <\/line><\/p>\n

And by comparison, everything else is secondary, by comparison. You can take individual issues, you make a case for them being number one, like pro-life, you could easily say that\u2019s the most important thing of all because without sanctity of life and the accompanying notions of freedom and liberty and all of the rest of it, it\u2019s worthless. You do that with every issue, but in terms of the contemporary political and cultural scene, legal alienship is it, and Trump is on the correct side of that. If we don\u2019t do something about that, we\u2019re not gonna have a country to save. If these borders are not closed, if we do not impose the law once again — this whole idea of immigration, illegal immigration is being conflated with immigration, legal immigration, nobody\u2019s opposed to legal immigration. It\u2019s illegal immigration and the efforts of the people in support of that to try to conflate it and equate it with legal immigration is offensive, because that\u2019s not what we\u2019re talking about here. <\/p>\n

In no other instance in our culture do we have people advocating openly for the wanton violation of law. You don\u2019t have a people that are in favor of murder. You don\u2019t have a group of people that are in favor of theft. You don\u2019t have groups political people — well, theft, welfare — I\u2019m talking about ordinary, everyday human behavior. You do not have political movements in favor of theft, in favor of murder, bank robbery, you name it, but we do have a huge political movement in favor of illegal immigration. And, frankly, it blows the minds of everybody who happens to respect law and order, number one. <\/p>\n

Then you talk about the cultural ramifications and the overrunning of what it is to be America and an American, and that issue trumps everything else. If we don\u2019t do something about that, then there\u2019s no country to save. And this is exactly what the proponents of it realize. The proponents of illegal immigration know exactly what\u2019s gonna happen if they continue to succeed, and they know what their objective is. It is to erase America. As I said last week, the objective is to erase Western civilization. It\u2019s happening all over Europe and they\u2019ve made no bones about it. <\/p>\n

The multicultural crowd, which now controls American public education, has been point-blank honest that Western civilization is the rot that\u2019s causing all this pain and suffering throughout the world and needs to go. Even Obama has joined this chorus of people ripping into Columbus, with all of these phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller bromides against essentially Western Europeans who came and, quote, unquote, discovered this country, they are now the enemy, and Obama joined that rant. Obama says Columbus Day or what it represents ushered in disease, devastation, and violence. Well, the multicultural rant is that Columbus brought with him syphilis, horses, which means horse manure, environmental destruction, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia. That\u2019s what was brought in by western Europeans who came.<\/line><\/p>\n

Western civilization, that\u2019s being blamed for destroying Indians and Mexicans and everything else. Illegal immigration is a way to get it all back. You can\u2019t name — maybe I\u2019m wrong. Is there a political group in favor of murder that has the support of a political party? Any other illegal behavior that has the support of a major American political party, can you think of it? Well, you can\u2019t say abortion, some think abortion is murder, but there is a Supreme Court ruling on that, so you can\u2019t throw that in here. But any other illegal activity, there isn\u2019t a vast and widespread political movement that\u2019s been embraced by an American political party like the breaking of immigration law has been embraced. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with being divisive, by the way. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff. And divisive is only a pejorative in the sense that we have people who think we need to cooperate and be bipartisan and work together and all of that other just pabulum puke that denies the hard-core realities, political realities that we face today. You have to be divisive. You have to be in opposition. You have to be combative. That\u2019s what the Republican Party no longer is, and hasn\u2019t been for a while. <\/line><\/p>\n

But, folks, if this amnesty, this illegal amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, if this stuff isn\u2019t stopped, you realize that people on our side of the aisle will never win another election, just on the numbers alone, the demographics alone? California is Exhibit A. It\u2019s why that issue is far and away numero uno, and that\u2019s the reason and Exhibit A why Donald Trump maintains his position in the polls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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