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RUSH: Today is Thursday. Last weekend was four days ago. Depending on which day of the weekend you go back to, it could be five days ago. And if you have wishful thinking about weekends it could be six days ago, all the way back to last Friday. What happened last weekend? Donald Trump supposedly took himself out of the presidential race with one sentence about John McCain<\/a>. I mean, that\u2019s what the conventional wisdom told us. <\/p>\n

From the moment it was reported that Trump said he wasn\u2019t impressed with McCain because he\u2019s not impressed with people that get captured, the immediate media response, the immediate response, the knee-jerk response from the Washington establishment, both parties, was, “That\u2019s it. It\u2019s over. We\u2019ve finally put a bag of excrement out there in front of Donald Trump, and he\u2019s stepped in it. This is it. This is the moment we\u2019ve all been waiting for,” they said. <\/p>\n

This is the moment they said they knew was going to happen, if they would just wait. Trump was going to say something beyond the pale that would offend and outrage everyone and force him out of the race, to which they then said will be great so that we can now get down to the serious business of the Republican nomination. <\/p>\n

Well, here it is Thursday, and it hasn\u2019t happened. Trump\u2019s still there. Trump\u2019s bigger than ever. Trump\u2019s numbers continue to skyrocket. He\u2019s on CNN last night telling Anderson Cooper why people don\u2019t watch him. He\u2019s on CNN last night trying to tell Anderson Cooper why people don\u2019t trust him, why they don\u2019t watch CNN, why they don\u2019t trust CNN. <\/line><\/p>\n

Donald Trump was supposed to be gone<\/a>. This is the teachable moment to which I referred on Monday, which was misinterpreted by many as support for Trump, but it wasn\u2019t. I was just being an objective observer pointing out that we have a circumstance here which we haven\u2019t seen in a while. Trump made himself a target with his supposed reported comments about McCain, and that was supposed to be the end. And I said something\u2019s happening here that we don\u2019t normally see. <\/p>\n

The target of this attempt is actually fighting back. The target not only is not apologizing, he\u2019s not even getting close to apologizing so much so that he\u2019s even doubled down on the original comment and tripled down on it to the point that an apology would not even look real. This is an interesting thing, folks, because we now see — and I think this is a lesson that every conservative and every Republican needs to learn. Of course it depends on the specifics of every instance here, but this is pretty traditional. Trump was supposed to not be able to survive this. All the experts told us, all of the wizards of smart, all the experts, all the consultants, all the know-it-alls smiled and rubbed their hands in glee and said, “That\u2019s it.” <\/p>\n

But Trump didn\u2019t play by their rules. He didn\u2019t apologize. He didn\u2019t grovel. He didn\u2019t ask for forgiveness. He didn\u2019t ask for a chance to restate it. He didn\u2019t ask for understanding. He said (imitating Trump), “Screw you. Not only did I mean it, try this.” And he\u2019s still there. What\u2019s the lesson? The lesson is — and I promise you this is gonna be maybe the third to fourth last time I\u2019m gonna mention this, because I think it\u2019s important. The lesson is that when outrage pops up over something supposedly controversial said by a conservative or a Republican, it does not mean that that outrage is shared by the American people or a majority thereof. <\/p>\n

When the outrage machine gets going, as in outrage over what Trump said about McCain, the implied assumption is that the American people, the majority of the American people also are angry and demanding of an apology and want the perp gone. It\u2019s not the case. So every conservative, every Republican, elected official, public figure, doesn\u2019t matter, next time — and there will be a next time, and it\u2019ll not be that long. Next time this happens, there\u2019s a new rule that can be followed, there\u2019s a new example that\u2019s been set. <\/p>\n

<\/a>You do not have to slink away with your tail between your legs. You do not have to apologize. You do not have to assume that a majority of the American people agree with whatever the critics in the media are saying. These kinds of things, depending on a lot of factors, I mean, it\u2019s not universal, but a lot of these factors can be survived, a lot of these instances can be survived. It\u2019s not necessary to immediately capitulate, apologize, and split the scene. Seminal moment, folks. Seminal moment. I doubt that anybody else is making such big deal about this, but I\u2019ve been through this is why this matters to me. <\/p>\n

You know, things happen to you. You have personal experiences in things that happen to others. You have a bond of relatability, an ability to understand it a little bit more than people to whom it\u2019s never happened. I\u2019ve been through this I can\u2019t tell you how many times, and I\u2019m still here, triumphing as always. It can be done. It\u2019s always irked me how quickly Republican targets slink away, give up, raise the white flag of surrender, thinking that they are being appreciated, thinking that they are lessening whatever anger there is at them. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s totally unnecessary. And depending, again, the circumstances are unique to each and each issue. I mean, there are certain things that someone could say that they couldn\u2019t survive. I understand that. It\u2019s not universal. But it\u2019s also not universal on the other end, that everything controversial — and by the way, who gets to define what\u2019s controversial? They do. The critics, the media, the left, the Democrats, they get to define what\u2019s controversial. <\/p>\n

So Trump was supposed to be gone, Trump was supposed to be finished. But have you noticed something? The more Donald Trump talks, the higher he goes in the polls. The more Donald Trump speaks, the more places he goes, the more places he appears, the greater his support, which is the exact opposite of Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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