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Jan. 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Yeah, so here it is another Monday holiday that nobody told me anything about, but it wouldn't have mattered if they had because I'd have been here anyway.
I'm not going to take a Monday holiday during this period of time when it's Mark Luther King Day, and Obama said it's a day of public service, and that's what we do here every day anyway.
We serve humanity, so don't sweat it.
You know, the staff didn't even ask me if I wanted to take this day off because they knew there was no way that was going to happen.
Happy to have you here, folks.
It is the excellence in broadcasting that we're going to rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-288 to the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I want to paraphrase an email that I received.
It's like a number of emails that I've received.
As I say, I'm paraphrasing it because it represents quite a few people who are emailing and they're confused and they don't know what to do.
These are Republicans slash conservative primary voters.
And they are.
Well, let's just they're confused.
Mr. Limbaugh, I have no idea anymore where I belong in the Republican Party.
I don't know what the Republican Party stands for, and I don't know if conservatism has a home in it any longer or not.
My problem is compounded by the fact that I do not like either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
And yet it looks like I've got no choice but then to support one of them.
I might tell you people something here, and we're going to sort all through this today.
We're going to sort all of this out today.
We're going to get a good start on it or try anyway.
But a sort of a shock surprise poll comes out of South Carolina.
And admittedly, it's an outlier, obscure poll.
It's from the Augusta Chronicle.
That's a local newspaper.
And the shocker in the poll is that Jeb has pulled ahead of Marco Rubio in South Carolina.
The numbers are Trump 32, Cruz 18, Rubio 11.
Wait, Jeb is at 13.
So it actually goes Trump 32, Cruz 18, Jeb 13, Rubio 11.
Carson's at 9, and everybody else is at 43 or 2.
Now, in this same poll back on December 20th, Trump was at 38, so he's down six in this poll.
Cruz was at 23, he's down five since December 20th.
Rubio was at 12, he statistically even lost a point.
Jeb was at 7% back in December.
Now he's at 13, nearly doubled his support.
Again, the Augusta Cron.
The point I meant making here is the establishment is going to glom onto this.
This is like life support.
This is like they're, you know, very, very badly injured in an accident, and they've been brought to the ER in the ambulance, and all is thought that the patient pretty much is in a hopeless situation.
All of a sudden they detect a pulse that's getting stronger, and they immediately go into action to try to improve the survivability of the person they thought had pretty much cashed it in.
Now what's fascinating here, it's it's really been interesting to watch and read about the Republican establishment in the drive-by media, because if I didn't know any better, I would be confused.
Members of the establishment, and I mean elected Republicans and the Republican leadership and the so-called Republican media, the RNC people inside the beltway, have savaged me for not single handedly taking out Donald Trump.
Would you agree with that assessment, Mr. Snertle?
I have been savaged profoundly by these people, either uh by virtue of the written word or in various tweets or maybe even comments on cable news shows.
That I am faux conservative, that I'm not real, that I'm letting my audience down because Trump's never been a conservative and a limb knew it and wouldn't take him out.
And then over the weekend I read that that very same establishment has decided to throw in with Trump because they so despise Cruz.
So here I have been in recent months savaged and criticized.
And by the way, you don't see me crying about it.
No, no, no, no, I'm not saying anybody else is.
I'm just saying it's it's it's the game, if you will.
It's the league everybody plays in here.
So it's like Trump and his criticism of Cruz.
This has got so many conservatives just bent out of whack they can't see straight, because there's always been this assumption that Cruz and Trump were a couple.
They were a united pair.
They they both had a common opponent, and that was the Republican establishment.
And that arrangement, such as it was perceived to exist, was fine and dandy with Trump so long as he was in first place.
But then we saw the poll numbers switch, and Cruz jumped out to a lead in Iowa.
And, you know, bye-bye bromance or couple or whatever it is, and Trump sets his sights on whoever he wants to tear down, and that in this case is Cruz.
And I'll tell you, I folks, let me dispel something else too.
I I don't know what the perception is.
I have spoken to Donald Trump one time in this entire campaign.
And it was way back when the McCain thing happened, whenever he is shortly after, I guess he made his announcement.
And he made the comments about John McCain's that I prefer generals that don't get captured.
I don't have a lot of respect for McCain.
I talked to Trump then, and he called here.
And I have not talked to him since.
Now I have trouble talking to people on the phone.
I had a conversation, I mentioned this last week with a uh a ranking member of the Republican establishment.
They know I can't hear, and they call anyway.
I heard half of what he said.
I had I got tired of saying, wait, would you say that again?
It's just a very, very difficult thing for me to do.
To actually have a substantive, I have to spend so much time concentrating on what I'm trying to comprehend, especially if it's a cell call, that I miss half of it and have to go back through it.
It it limits my ability to be an open and free participant in here because my so much of my energy is focused on just trying to understand what the hell I'm being told, but it doesn't matter.
Even though they know I can't hear, they call and they go through what they're thinking of doing and planning and so forth or want me to know, which I appreciate, don't misunderstand.
By the way, speaking of that, little offshoot, remind me about this.
Wi-Fi calling.
It may be the saving grace, me being able to use the phone again.
That and FaceTime audio.
I'll explain that later.
Anyway, I have not spoken to Trump.
I've not, I've I don't call him to give him advice.
He doesn't call here asking for it.
I don't know who else, if anybody else he calls, but I don't think he's taking advice from anybody, maybe from his inner circle and so forth.
But when it comes to this cruise business, look, he's doing two things that are not unique.
A, he's going after Cruz's likability.
Well, folks, you don't need me to tell you that this is an often heard criticism of Cruz from all over the place, long before Trump even started criticizing Cruz.
I mean, I go out and I tell people I like Cruz, and I get back, man, I don't know.
Just seems like he's not a real guy.
He seems like the televangelist is stealing all the money.
I'm going to hear it all.
So it's not unique that Trump would go after Cruz on the fact that he's a nasty guy.
I don't even think Trump means it.
I think it's this is politics.
And Cruz is ready for this and is prepared for it.
And in fact, is dealing with it masterfully on Trump's.
Trump knows, and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here, but I know he's a smart.
He knows that this business of Cruz running around and using the phrase New York values New York.
It was not an insult to anybody about 9-11.
Trump knows it.
It's just it provided him an opportunity to shore up his credentials with people in New York.
It provided him an opportunity to go after his primary number one opponent, but guess what?
Cruz has flipped that and turned that around masterfully.
And it has resulted in the unearthing of a Donald Trump appearance on Meet the Depress with Tim Russert way back, in which Trump admits to all of his liberalism in the past.
So I sit back and I watch all this play out.
We're watching a couple of really qualified professionals in the communications game go at it.
And there is, as is in the past, I do not even consider inserting myself in the middle of it, other than to tell you things I'm telling you here on the air.
And I will tell you that, like I've said before, I think Trump is making a strategic error in the way he criticizes Cruz.
But folks, it's unrealistic to expect that they're not going to go after each other.
They're number one and two.
Iowa and New Hampshire are at stake.
This is politics.
There's only one winner.
The two of them can't win this together in some sort of a bromance and come out as a united couple after either one of these primaries or after the whole process.
It's not how it works.
They're both going to try to take each other out, and they're both going to have their own strategies for doing so.
Now, Trump, I think, is you know, Trump knows his coalition.
He knows who his base is.
His base is made of many people, more than just conservatives.
However, there are a boatload of conservatives in Trump's, I'm gonna say audience here, but what I mean his support base, the people who intend to vote for him.
There's a lot of conservatives disaffected, angry with the Republican Party.
And there are a lot of conservatives that support Trump who don't like Ted Cruz.
I can't explain it, but I hear it all over the place.
I hear all kinds of love, respect, admiration for Cruz, and I hear people at the same time who don't like him for whatever reason they conjure up.
I remember when Scott Walker was the front runner.
People down here, my neighbors and friends.
I don't like Scott Walker to have a prayer.
Why?
His eyes are too close together.
I said, What?
Yeah, his eyes are too close together.
He looks shifty.
He just looked trustworthy.
I don't know.
And this bunch was supporting Kasich.
You know, so who can explain any of this?
I certainly am well, there's nobody better than me to explain it.
Uh, but justify it, you know, that's the I I think Trump going after Cruz is quite normal.
It's understandable, but I think he's making a tactical error the way he's doing it.
Whatever you want to say, Cruz is not a nasty guy.
You when you when you get into criticism, it better be believable.
But Trump is looking at, and I'm sure is hearing about the negatives that Cruz has, and I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to you that they don't exist.
Heck, folks, even in my own circle of friends, there are people that don't like Cruz or Bush or Rubio.
It runs the gamut, and it all perplexes me.
I could have told you about the dinner party head of my house with my own guests that they hated Sarah Palin.
Walked out of my own dinner party when I started hearing why and so forth.
I did.
I had to go to a golf tournament, so I just left six hours early.
I did.
I left, I went out the front door, got in the car, it was already packed, hit the airport, and bam, I'm out of there.
And Catherine's left her heads in there, oh my God, what just happened.
Poor Catherine.
Well, she was a champ.
She hung in there and she saved the night.
Kids sit at table, but I started yelling and screaming.
I was confronted with so much what I thought was stupidity.
These guys basically saying the media's destroyed Palin.
It's stupid to try to prop her up and save her.
We're never going to win if the media doesn't like our candidate.
Well, I said, really, you guys, it's that easy?
You're going to let the media choose our candidate.
Well, media's destroyed her rush.
It's just that simple.
There's nothing we can do.
I said, Well, I can't handle this.
This is this is not, these guys are not fighters, battlers, or what have you.
Plus, they've got this belief that media doesn't like our candidate.
We don't have a prayer.
So I was out there.
I think Trump, free to criticize Cruz all he wants, as far as I'm concerned, but going after him is a nasty guy on this berther business.
He's got to worry that it's going to create more negatives within his own support base rather than turn people off to Cruz.
And he's got to consider the opportunity that it's providing Cruz and responding.
Like Cruz is come up now twice with he's doubling down.
He's taking Trump's lesson on this whole insulting New Yorkers thing.
Trump has uh has made it possible for Cruz to double down on his apology.
He's apologized twice now.
And what he's apologizing to the people in New York for the people that are leading them.
I feel bad for you.
I'm sorry as hell that you have a governor as bad as Cuomo, and I'm sorry as heck you have a mayor as bad as de Blasio.
And I'm sorry, and I apologize.
I wish there was something I could do about it, but you voted for him, not me.
So Trump has given Cruz the opportunity to make his point over and over again and to show that he's not cowering in fear in the corner and running away from it.
And in the midst of all this, Cruz, in responding to this, is not even mentioning Trump's name, which is which is that's lesson number one.
You don't mention the opponent, it's like they don't even exist.
You just go about your business.
Cruz is doing all of that.
Trump is not number one in Iowa.
Well, in some polls he is, but Cruz has been in the lead there for a while.
I just think like I've always won when he first went after Cruz using liberal criticism, mentioned it here, did not call him, haven't talked to him.
Don't get calls from him.
I don't know, nobody's.
I'm not an advisor to anybody.
I just tell you, you people in this audience, you are my focus.
Every day I do this program for you.
The show is the thing, and the audience is why there is a show.
And so my focus here is being honest with you about what I think.
Not carrying somebody else's water.
Or in some cases, even a movement's water.
At some point's up to them.
Let me take a break here.
It's as good a time as any.
We'll come back and continue in mere moments.
After this, do not go away.
So as I was saying last week, we had the establishment who's been upset at me for not taking on Trump.
All of a sudden now, deciding to sidle up with Trump.
That's the stories.
Or that's the news, stories left and right about how the establishment's decided that it's going to be Trump.
And they want it to be Trump.
They don't want it to be Cruz because Cruz is conservative.
That's that's why they don't like him.
They also don't like Cruz because he's better than they are.
They don't like Cruz because he's smarter than they are.
They don't like Cruz because he's committed to it.
When they say, and this is what there's an establishment, say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can we can make deals with Trump.
We can, we can, we can coexist with Trump.
What they mean by that is that they think they can peacefully coexist with Trump because they can moderate Trump or make deals with him that are not ideological in nature, but they know they are fairly certain that Cruz is not gonna compromise what he believes in order to strike deals or have a peaceful relation with them, relationship.
That scares them.
They know he's smarter, they know he's more committed, they know his supporters are going to be the same.
They know there's no way that they can soften him and have workable deals with Democrats, as the establishment must do inside the beltway.
But they think Trump can be Bent, shaped, flaked formed, what have you, in ways that will make cooperation with the Democrats, who are also legitimate members of the establishment and ruling class.
Make all of that cooperation possible.
So it's an it's an opposition of conservatism at the establishment level.
It's a personal dislike of Cruz and resentment.
He's smarter.
He's more consistent.
He's unbending on the core beliefs and things that matter.
And then I think it was the Daily Caller last week.
There was a story about how the establishment was deciding to step up and get in bed and then do business with Cruz.
I mean, it was I saw both stories last week.
The predominant one seems to be that the establishment has decided Trump would be the lesser of two evils for them.
And not all may be out the window with Bush in South Carolina.
Hi, welcome back, Rushlin Baugh executing his signed host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Terrific to have you here.
Kick off a brand new week of broadcast excess.
Trump was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had an appearance over the weekend.
Got booed.
First time the drive-byers can remember Trump getting booed.
And the booze got louder and louder and louder as Trump became more and more critical of Cruz.
It did not deter Trump.
He started chiding the audience.
Well, hey, and then said whatever he said.
Hey, guys going out, getting loans and not telling you about it.
Say whatever you want to say.
A guy maybe maybe Prime Minister of Canada, but he's not legally just didn't drop the riff, kept going.
The booze got louder and louder.
However, when it was over, he got a standing O. Both things happened.
The boo birds did not walk out.
Here's NBC's report.
Among conservatives, Donald Trump can typically do no wrong until he attacks Ted Cruz.
That is wrong.
The drive-by media is assuming, and they don't have to.
You can find this out.
The research is in to the extent that it exists.
Donald Trump has lots of conservatives who do not like him.
I hear from them all the time.
There are a lot of conservatives who prefer Rubio or who prefer Ted Cruz.
Some even prefer, I don't know, Chris Christie, but there are a lot of conservatives.
You've heard them call here that do not like Trump because they don't think he is one.
There are a lot of conservatives who think that he's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
That he's a traditional, lifetime New Yorker, and that means something.
There are all kinds of conservatives with suspicions of Donald Trump.
Yet, NBC, among conservatives, Donald Trump can typically do no wrong.
That's wrong right off the gate.
Now there are some conservatives in the crowd in Myrtle Beach.
They're conservatives in Trump's coalition, of course.
And they are conservatives and supporting Trump for specific reasons.
Among them, Trump is fighting back against what they perceive to be a common enemy, and that's Washington, the establishment.
The people who are working and looking out for themselves and not the rest of the country.
There are a lot of Hispanics, there are a lot of African Americans, there are a lot of women, people that are traditionally not thought of in the Republican coalition.
So Trump's cross-section of people is pretty diverse, but it's not uniformly conservative.
So when you see NBC reporting on Trump being booed, they think it's big news inside conservatism, but it's not.
It's to those of us who are conservative and know the movement and know people in it, we've long been aware that there are conservatives that do not like Trump, and some stridently do not like Trump.
Then NBC says on Saturday, Trump drew booze From a grassroots conservative crowd during remarks at the South Carolina Tea Party coalition convention for his attack on Cruz's previously undisclosed loans.
He said, You give a campaign contribution to Ted Cruz, you get whatever the hell you want.
Then the booze erupted, and they got louder.
And Trump tried to shout out and shout down the loot, the booers.
He just the boo birds.
He got louder and louder and became defiant.
And he said, say whatever you want, it's okay.
But Cruz didn't report his bank loans.
He's got bank loans in Goldman Sachs, bank loans from Citibank folks, and then he acts like Robin Hood.
So everybody's wondering is Trump hurting himself here or not?
Is this bad?
I mean, Trump's the drive-by's a lot of other people too.
Okay, so Trump's perceived audience is conservative now is going after one of the most popular conservatives in the in the race.
People start booing.
Oh, it's just folks, it could be exactly as I forewarned.
People understand in a primary, and particularly conservatives who are very much attuned to the way things happen.
They full well understand these guys are going after each other.
If there's a Carly Fiorina 2, everybody's going to go after each other.
It's a primary.
It's the way Trump is doing it that is unsettling and unnerving to people.
Whether or not it's going to manifest in Trump losing support or energetic support of some conservatives, only time will tell.
But it doesn't seem that Trump is concerned about that, because he's ratcheting it up.
Now Cruz is a nasty guy, believe me, it's a nasty guy.
He's a mean guy.
And everybody knows it.
Look around.
Everybody's met Ted Cruz hates the guy.
Mitch McConnell hates the guy.
Harry Reid hates the guy.
Hey, oh, hate the guy.
Everybody, I mean, he's a nasty guy.
He's a nasty guy.
That's nothing that hasn't been said by others.
But these two have been considered to be unified the top two in the race, both with the common enemy.
There was all this time an expression of mutual respect.
They criticized everybody but each other.
But then that all changed when Cruz takes the lead in Iowa.
And Trump doesn't want to lose Iowa.
And this is the way Trump goes after everybody.
There shouldn't be a surprise here.
You can say all day long you think it's a mistake.
And I do.
Not criticizing Cruz.
I mean these are things that have to happen.
It's whenever a Republican or conservative attacks a fellow Republican or conservative using the same language or the same approach that Democrats and liberals will get a huge red flag.
always has been.
And whether or not it's going to hurt Trump, it isn't going to help.
Thank you.
Or wait, could it?
Could it, actually?
You might have to consider something that's unthinkable.
Do not discount.
I mean, it's do not discount the possibility that all that you've heard about how unliked Cruz is.
I mean, it is real.
It baffles me.
I have to, it baffles me.
I've met Cruz a couple three times.
The criticism I hear most often about Cruz is that he doesn't seem natural.
He seems like he's he's just constantly, what's the word?
Uh earnest all the time.
Just it never seems relaxed, doesn't seem casual ever.
Uh and it it unnerves people.
I think what that is is Cruz is just so smart.
And he knows exactly who he is and what he thinks and is proud of it.
And he Knows the kind of attacks that conservatives get and have always received.
And he knows that moderating his behavior to please critics does not mollify critics.
You can't change who you are and the way you act and have people who criticize you all of a sudden like you, particularly if they're liberals or Democrats or members of the Republican establishment.
He's just decided he's going to be who he is.
And I just think it unnerves people.
Like it unnerves people whenever you encounter somebody that's so damn sure of themselves.
That's just not possible.
Nobody can be that sort of everything.
It's not natural to be that sure of yourself.
It's not natural to think you've got all the answers.
And they can end up getting offended.
Um feeling some other insecurity or what have you.
But smart people have the tendency sometimes to come off as calculating.
And certainly not casual or relaxed.
And it it has it just unnerves some people and it makes them go from feeling unnerved and and bothered to maybe.
I don't like it.
I just don't like it.
So it's it's like, like I said, the the nasty guy that Trump is saying.
I don't think, and I'm wild guessing here.
I don't think he really believes that.
I don't think he thinks Cruz is a nasty guy.
It's just the way Trump campaigns.
It's the way Trump deals.
I mean, look at what he did to the guy that runs Macy's.
It's entirely in character.
And it's uh it isn't personal.
I mean, Trump was at Liberty University today.
Liberty University is Jerry Falwell's university.
And Trump.
Trump did something I've not heard him do before.
He praised Christianity.
And he said Christianity's under attack, and we've got a band together, we gotta come together.
This country is Christian.
He's I'm proud of my Christianity.
I'm proud of being Christian.
I'm Presbyterian, I'm uh I'm a Protestant, but I'm I'm proud of it.
But we're all Christians that 75, 80% of the people in this country are Christians, and we got a band together, and that was it.
There's applause and so forth.
Then later, he started talking about the Bible.
He said, The Bible's okay, yeah.
I mean, look, let's be honest.
The Bible nails it, right?
But the second biggest book is the art of the deal.
So he acknowledges that the Bible is number one, but that the real book to talk about is the art of the deal, his book.
Now I watched the faces of people on the other side of the glass here.
Is that what they were all started laughing?
Everybody just started laughing.
Nobody got mad at it.
I mean, here Trump basically, a lot of people say he just slammed a Bible.
You don't say the Bible nails it, you don't say the Bible kills it, you don't say the the Bible, whatever actual term he used.
People he didn't show respect to the Bible.
I didn't compare his book to the Bible.
But that's not the reaction, because they know this is all part of the connection I keep trying to tell people about that Trump has with his supporters or with the people interested in him.
Anyway, I gotta take a break again.
We'll come back, and we've got a lot of audio sound bites to weave into this to kind of make the points I've been making here, plus get your feedback, which uh should be fascinating in its own right.
So sit tight and be patient.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
Okay, let's go see what's on the phones.
Get to the audio sun bites in due course.
Uh we are starting with Mike in Norfolk, Virginia.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, uh Rush.
Great to uh thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir, you bet.
Uh I wanted to uh talk with you just a second about why I like Donald Trump.
And I think uh a lot of this political, you know, the talk of all the political uh imaginations that are going on are really missing the point.
Let me ask you a question first.
Just so people you gotta uh uh have a baseline comparison.
You conservative, uh moderate, republican, independent, what are you?
I would say that as I grow older, um for a while I thought I was conservative.
Uh, but I'm moving more and more towards libertarian now.
I find myself thinking more like a libertarian.
Why anything else?
No wrong answer, just curious.
Why?
Why are you uh relaxing your conservatism and moving to uh libertarianism?
Well, I wouldn't call it relaxing.
I'm just somebody who wants to uh a true believer in liberty and you know life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Okay.
You know, the heart of uh liber libertarianism.
Okay, that that's fine.
That's what I just wanted to get some some some baseline from where your comments are coming, so we can put them in.
Right.
I'm a strict constitutionalist.
All right.
You know, so uh but that would be called constructionist, but I know what you mean.
Okay.
Um but uh and this is my first time ever calling some.
That's all right.
But you like Trump.
You've got to tell us why you like Trump, yeah.
I think well, what I'm looking for is somebody who can get things done.
I'm looking for results.
Um, and Trump is the only candidate that has illustrated that he can get results.
The guy went to Scotland or Ireland, I can't remember which one it was, and saw this beautiful plot of land, said, hey, this will make a great place for a golf course, except he had to spend years uh trying to convince environmentalists that he could build a golf course there without destroying the environment.
He did it.
He he he beat liberalism and built a money-making golf course in Scotland.
He did the same thing in New York years ago with the Wolman rink.
He got tired of looking from his penthouse down at the Wolman rink that was taking it was going on six years of work, looked like complete trash down there.
He wrote Ed Koch and said, Hey, I'll fix the link.
In six months, I think it was, he said he would do for X amount of dollars and Kots because he just didn't like the guy, said nope.
Sorry, not gonna do not gonna deal with you.
And so the papers got a hold of it, and uh then made Kotts reverse his uh reverse decision.
And Trump finished finished that rink in less than six months and under budget.
I got I got all that.
No, so he built a golf course or two, and he got the woman's skating rink built when the bureaucracy of New York had it languishing as an eyesore.
Yes.
And that this is why he's convinced me that he can get things done if he goes to Washington.
The guy figures out how to make things work.
I mean, he's he's fought liberalism, you know.
I wouldn't say he personally is on the on a crusade to fight liberalism, but I don't know that that's what he's doing.
I look at I'm not trying to I don't know that he's fighting liberalism in what he's doing is fighting people standing in his way.
Whoever they are, don't misunderstand.
Uh but it is it i if they are liberals standing in his way, he doesn't care.
He'll still mow them.
But if the libertarians get in his way about something, you can expect him to come at you.
That's who he is.
Whatever he wants, now he's gonna get it done.
One of the you know what one of the fears that I'm seeing and the drive-by is everybody's getting panicked now.
Because I'm telling you up to now, what uh the major parties and the established all thought that this was gonna be over by now.
At some point, they all trusted that everybody else would see Trump the way they do.
A phony, a liar, unserious, self-promoting circus act that's only interested in his own aggrandizement.
That hasn't happened.
Now they're getting panicked.
And the way they're going after Trump now, I've seen just a few examples of it.
And maybe you have too.
Now they're worried that Trump is actually he's not conservative.
He's not liberal.
He's nothing except this.
He's an authoritarian.
He will do whatever he wants and however he wants it if he wants it done.
Eminent domain, if he wants your house to build a shopping center, then by golly, by gosh, he's gonna take it.
And the establishment's expressing concern here that Trump's supporters may in fact be aware of this and may in fact be endorsing authoritarianism, which they say is in direct conflict with conservatism, which believes in small government less intrusive.
And they're speculative.
I wonder if these Trump voters actually know that they're actually thinking about supporting somebody who could end up being a dictator.
That's how.
You've heard that too.
That's starting to bubble up out there, folks.
This is fun.
Keep an eye on it here.
Yeah, no, I haven't mentioned a Democrat debate because boring, predictable, screeching, Hillary voice.
But we've got some stuff on it.
We'll get to it here, folks.
That's not what the action is.
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