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December 27, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	Yep, I'm here filling in for Rush today, and Mark Stein is on the program tomorrow.
	For those of you that have a hard time keeping track of the marks that fill in for Rush, I'm the one with the accent.
	Anyway, uh let's talk about this first.
	Uh Carrie Fisher died.
	And I think a lot of people saw that coming when we heard that she had the massive heart attack of the flight from London to Los Angeles a few days ago, and they said that she was unconscious for some time.
	There was little information that was released about her condition.
	I don't know what it is, but every time I fill in for Rush, somebody important or somebody famous seems to die, and I'm not real good at obituaries or talking about people and what they meant to other people and so on.
	But Carrie Fisher was part of the American culture that I think kind of defied what I was talking about at the first hour of the program in which we don't have a shared culture anymore.
	Sort of everybody knew who she was.
	First of all, the daughter of two of the most famous celebrities ever, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
	The Star Wars movies, the first few where she played Princess Leah.
	I mean, who didn't see those movies?
	Kind of the celebrity culture that she hung in and kind of moved back and forth between London and the United States, few famous boyfriends.
	She was always on the talk shows, obviously a big time lefty, but somebody that I think a lot of people just kind of sort of liked.
	60 years old, lived a very, very interesting life, had a lot of ups and downs and so on.
	But if you're of the generation that I am, one of the things that kind of made Star Wars was that whole notion of Princess Leah and kind of the story that was underneath the story of the glitz and gadgetry and special effects that were going on with Star Wars, and Carrie Fisher is somebody that for people like me, you've literally watched her age at the same pace that you were aging on, yet at the age of sixty years old.
	Okay, let's move back to the news here.
	Over the weekend, President Obama, who's in Hawaii now, is that a surprise?
	I mean, the guy's got what?
	Four weeks left on the job, and he still needs to take another vacation?
	Does he really he can go to Hawaii for the rest of his life, but he has to go there over the Christmas period?
	Does he lose some secret service protection after he leaves that he wants to milk this for all its I'm serious about this?
	Why did he need to go to Hawaii now?
	Who takes a vacation when they've still got three or four weeks left?
	And by the way, he's not done.
	He's coming back.
	Because there's a lot more junk that's going to happen, and I think we've only scratched the surface on the pardons.
	This UN resolution with Israel.
	This is just some of the last blasts that he's going to have.
	Anyway, he's out in Hawaii and he said, you know, if I was able to run, I would have beaten Trump.
	Now, first of all, why even say that?
	What's the point in saying that?
	Did W. Bush say, and oh, hey, you know, if I would have run, I would have beaten Obama.
	I don't even think the guy that I thought was the most narcissistic president of all time, Bill Clinton ever said, I would have beaten W. Bush if I could have run for a third term.
	Maybe he did.
	Anyway, he said, you know, I would have beaten Trump.
	Not surprisingly, President elect Trump has popped right back saying there's no way that Obama would have beaten him.
	The thing about Trump and the use of social media, and it's taken a long time to figure this out, is that he recognizes that what he puts out there in social media, these outrageous statements of the things that you never would have thought that he would have said, the media's gonna grab on those things.
	And they focus a lot of attention on that stuff and away from the things that Trump is actually doing and moving us forward.
	He's very, very crafty at that.
	Anyway, why would Obama have said it?
	I'm gonna explain why he said it.
	You are going to have a very different ex-president in Barack Obama.
	I don't know if you all caught this, but he made a he announced a few weeks ago.
	He's not going back to Chicago after he leaves the White House.
	He and Michelle and the children are going to move into a home in Washington.
	He's staying in DC.
	I can't think of the last time a president stayed in Washington.
	Bow Snerdly suggesting he's too afraid to go to Chicago, by the way, 61 shootings over the Christmas weekend in Chicago.
	Christmas, 61 shootings.
	Chicago is becoming, and I'm not going to condemn the entire city because Chicago has a lot going for it.
	But what's going on in Chicago in terms of the crime, what's going on in low-income neighborhoods, what's going on in neighborhoods in which the population is primarily minority, is hellish.
	No one should have to live that way.
	It is the ultimate condemnation of liberal public policy.
	Anyway, Obama, he what it wasn't like he was going to go and have to live in the hood.
	He didn't want to go back to Chicago.
	I noticed something Chicago magazine said, well, you know, I guess he's kind of outgrown us.
	Yeah, I guess he kind of has.
	But every other president that I can, you've got to go back to maybe like John Adams.
	Every other president that I can think of, after they've left office, came went back to the area that they were from.
	And it wasn't just a lifestyle choice, although for many of them I'm sure it was.
	Once you're no longer the president, there's an expectation that you sort of recede from the scene.
	Obama doesn't intend to do that.
	He's not going anywhere, and I'm going to tell you why.
	I think Obama is going to take on the role of the leader of the opposition.
	Whenever a president comes in, a new president comes in, somebody from the other party becomes the major voice of the opposition.
	Usually it's the leading member of the House or the Senate from that particular party.
	Obama senses a void.
	He knows that nobody pays any attention to Nancy Pelosi.
	What?
	Chuck Schumer?
	He doesn't want to share the spotlight with him.
	Hillary's already been put out to pasture.
	Obama's going to stay there.
	And when Trump does something that Obama doesn't like, he's going to pop off again and again and again.
	I think, you know how when W. Bush was president, whenever he wanted to have any criticism of the cable networks and bring up one of those old Clinton hacks, McGall or one of those guys, or Carville, one of those guys would come on the program and start to talk.
	That's going to be Obama.
	He's going to pop up on MSNBC and CNN all the time.
	He's going to issue statements all the time.
	When we move forward with the repeal of Obamacare, he's going to be there and he's going to criticize.
	And what better place to do it from than right there in Washington?
	He's going to make it clear that if President Trump is going to start repudiating and repealing, really, the policies of Obama, that it's going to be with him there griping about it every step of the way.
	Rush talked on Friday's program about Obama's desire to be the leader of the opposition.
	And I think this decision not to move back to Chicago proves that point.
	This is beyond just sour grapes.
	In America, we have always had, whether one side has liked it or not, this notion that when a president wins, that person is the president.
	People on my side, like me, like Rush, like many of you, deeply resented the Obama presidency and did not like the direction he took our nation.
	But the former president W. Bush wasn't staying there, staying in Washington, bark it at him every step of the way.
	He went back to Texas and pretty much kept his mouth shut.
	Even Bill Clinton, when he left the White House, he went off and did his playboying thing and was traveling around the world doing who knows what on Ron Burkle's jet.
	He wasn't staying there, barking at President George W. Bush.
	W. Bush went to Texas just as his father did.
	Obviously, President Reagan wasn't in the best of health when he left the White House, but he went back to California.
	It's what presidents do because we have one president.
	And that President is the person who speaks for the office.
	It's not like some third world nation where four or five or six people all claim that they're the dictator or the king.
	But Obama, I think, intends, since he doesn't believe in any other American tradition, I think he intends to be the dominant voice of opposition to President Trump because he realizes there is a major vacuum in his own party.
	Bernie Sanders is 19,000 years old.
	It can't be him.
	Hillary Clinton is worn out, tired out.
	She probably doesn't have it in her anymore.
	Bill Clinton, I mean, come on.
	Nancy Pelosi has been a terrible spokesperson for Democrats.
	But Obama believes this.
	Obama believes that he truly would have beaten Trump.
	He believes that Trump is an aberration.
	Obama thinks that he's the most popular Democrat of all time.
	Obama sizes things up this way.
	You know, 2006, what happened?
	The Republicans won everything in the United States.
	Oh, wait, I'm on the ballot, my side won.
	Ten, I'm not on the ballot.
	Republicans won everything in twenty.
	Twelve, Obama back on the ballot.
	We win again.
	Fourteen, major Republican avalanche.
	Obama wasn't on the ballot.
	Sixteen, Obama's not on the ballot.
	Again, major Republican avalanche.
	It's not just Trump.
	The Republicans have the Senate, they have the House, they have 34 governorships, they have the majority of state legislatures, they control almost everything in America right now.
	So Obama's telling, well, clearly, I'm the only savior that the Democratic Party has.
	When I'm on the ballot, we win.
	When one of these other losers is on the ballot, when I'm not there, we lose.
	And there's probably something to this.
	As somebody who's been arguing on my show in Milwaukee for some time, that I think that we are in a major national move away from the Democratic Party.
	If you take a look at over the last ten years, the major elections we've had in this country, they have all been dominated by Republicans, with the exception of the two that Obama was on the ballot.
	And my belief is that Obama has turned out, was able to turn out in these elections, and unusual a high voter turnout of African Americans.
	That the black vote was simply higher in eight and twelve than it is in other elections for reasons that are obvious.
	The legitimate pride that African Americans have in Obama and his popularity in the black community drove those high voter turnouts that simply aren't replicated in any other elections.
	So Obama figures, well, the only way the Democrats can win is with me.
	There are no other Democrats that can carry a message.
	I'm going to stay here and I'm going to keep doing this, and I'm going to be the leader of the opposition to this president.
	It's unseemly.
	It's not the proper role.
	But for an arrogant guy like Obama, you can see him wanting to do it.
	Where it leaves the Democrats in terms of developing any leadership for the future, I don't know.
	I think Michelle might run for president in 2020.
	I really think that.
	But Barack Obama isn't going anywhere, and he is going to use the role of the ex-president in a way that I think it's never been used before.
	And that is to try to obstruct his successor.
	I'm Mark Belling, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
	Mark Belling in for Rush.
	Let me explain the bumper music.
	As you can hear, it's still Christmas bumper music.
	This is at the insistence of me, the host of the program.
	I went through this last year, so I'm not going to repeat the whole long spiel.
	I am of the opinion that the Christmas season should last at least until New Year's.
	I am a traditionalist.
	I believe in the whole concept of the 12 days of Christmas.
	I'm a Christian.
	I believe that the Christmas season ends actually at the epiphany.
	This notion of starting Christmas music on radio stations in the middle of October and starting Christmas sales in September, and then the instant that December 25th passes that it all ends with a thud, I don't buy into that.
	So for the handful of you who are still traditionalists in the way we view the Christmas season, I'm playing the Christmas music while I do that.
	Mark Stein can do whatever he wants.
	Tomorrow.
	Anyway, the phone number here at the Rush Limbaugh program is 1-800-28282 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Craig.
	Craig, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
	Hi.
	I wanted to make a comment on your comment on the election night coverage and how exciting it was to watch.
	My primary channel was Fox, of course.
	And of course, your home state didn't, the alphabet didn't suit media didn't call Wisconsin ever.
	And F Fox did.
	Some of the others didn't, but Fox did.
	By the way, you and I, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, we're the two heroes.
	We were the we are the two surprised states that came through for Trump, and a lot to do with the reason that he became president of the United States.
	Well, when he went to 274, if you noticed Megan and Brett, Britt, um Brett, did not they weren't told before their elections department made that change.
	In other words, the box down in the right hand corner, they both glanced down at, and they had to cut off Carl Road, and then they had to say, Oh, we've just called it for Trump.
	That was after Podesta told everybody to go home, and when Trump was on his way.
	And I went to the Alphabet soup, and this was the best part of the night because I went right down the line and watched them, and I ended on my last one was on Stephen Offelus.
	He was told in his ear, and he said, Oh, uh, here's breaking news.
	I'm being told that Hillary did make the phone call.
	Well, they still had it at 244.
	Well, there, I I mean, I do get why the media was so reluctant to call some of these states that clearly had gone for Trump.
	We did have the problem back in 2000 where they didn't want to come early.
	But you, if you were watching that election night and flipping around as you were doing and I was doing, and it was this gradual every hour that passed, it became more and more inevitable.
	It started with this assumption by the anchors on all of the networks that Hillary was going to win because that's what their exit polls were showing.
	Then state votes started coming in.
	Florida always comes in in big numbers early on, and you could see that it looked like Trump was going to win there, and then it looked like he was going to win in North Carolina.
	He was holding these states that he needed to win, and then you saw the returns come up from other states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
	Here are states where Michigan, Trump was not expected to win, and he was winning them.
	He was ahead in all of them.
	And there was this gradual slow grasp of what was happening.
	The thing that made it just so remarkable.
	You mentioned the Podesta telling the Hillary supporters to go home when he went out there.
	You saw those Hillary supporters standing there for two or three hours at that headquarters, just staring straight ahead, almost in shock, as if they could not process what was happening.
	And then you saw the people standing in the Trump headquarters, where I'm even if you're the most devoted Donald Trump supporter, you had to have at least some doubt as to whether or not he was going to win or not because of what the polls are saying about the exit polls had apparently come out, and there was just this emotional.
	You could watch how America was reacting.
	Democrats in shock and distraught, and Trump supporters and Republicans realizing that we had pulled this off.
	The impact and the importance of this, I just can't overstate.
	I think the reason that the emotional reaction was as strong as it was, is that there are a lot of people, including me, who are not convinced our country could have survived Hillary Clinton.
	That we could have not could not have survived just ignoring any notion of the rule of law.
	We could not have survived just continuing to pretend that we don't have a border.
	We could not have survived foreign policy that continued to see America recede in this whole notion of some sort of vague kind of globalism.
	And we feel as though we restored the country.
	The fact that it was somebody as unlikely as Trump pulling it off, it made it all the more remarkable.
	In fact, I told I have an iPhone.
	I can now say this because I'm at EIB where everybody is required to use Apple products because Russia's in Apple Groupie.
	I'm now an Apple Groupie.
	That happened.
	I came in here.
	I started using the Apple stuff.
	I kind of like the Apple stuff.
	Anyway, I have an iPhone.
	So the coverage is going on on Fox, and I'm flipping around watching the other stuff and watching the meltdowns, watching Van Jones carry on about his white lash.
	I go back to Fox and they put up this graphic on the TV, Donald Trump wins presidency, and you see Trump walking down the uh that big balcony that they were at at his campaign rally, and I pull up my iPhone and I take a picture of this.
	So I've got this freeze-framed.
	Donald Trump wins presidency, and he starts walking down there, and I look at this.
	This is maybe the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
	1-800-282-288-2 is always the rush phone.
	Number time to talk to some callers here.
	Uh, let's try uh Hunting to West Virginia and David.
	David, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
	I'd like to know if any of the left's panic and hysteria is being driven by fear that they can't destroy enough of the evidence fast enough on things like the IRS targeting fast and furious damages by Ronald Clinton's secret emails and the graft and corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
	You know, one of the things that we don't know, and I was talking earlier about some of the things that I'm convinced the president-elect Trump is going to do.
	One of the things we don't know is how much looking back they are going to do.
	It may well be, and I don't know, Trump has given kind of mixed signals on this.
	Will there be investigations of some of the thing, the wrongdoing that occurred over the last eight years?
	Or will Trump be of the opinion that that's looking backward rather than forward?
	But you're right.
	What happened with the IRS was an American scandal.
	You had probably of all the agencies other than maybe the FBI, who you just have to trust that this is going to be impartial.
	For heaven's sakes, they're dealing with our confidential information, how much money people make, deductions that they take.
	If ever there was an agency that you would just expect would be politically neutral, it would be the IRS.
	And instead, under the Obama administration, it was perverted to become an attack dog to go after conservative organizations.
	No one has paid a sufficient price for that, and we have never learned who was calling the shots and why that happened.
	You mentioned the still stalled investigation into the Hillary Clinton emails.
	Now, look at the Hillary staff, Huma Abedin, these the secure information that showed up on Anthony Wiener's laptop, complete misuse of material that was supposed to be held at the highest level of secrecy.
	Will there be a desire on the part of the Trump administration and its Justice Department and other agencies to investigate these things or not?
	You're wondering, are they concerned that you're going to go out and get them all?
	I mean, that's still only limited.
	That's collateral damage to the people who did, you know, direct damage to the people who did that stuff.
	I think mostly from the left, they are mortified that we're not going to have Obamacare and we're not going to have a mentality of creating a health care entitlement.
	I think they're mortified that we're going to have a tax code that tells American businesses that if you make money, you can keep most of it, and therefore you can keep your jobs here.
	I think that they're mortified that we're going to create a nation in which being an American means something, and America's role in the rest of the world is advancing what's in the best interest of America.
	I think that they're just bothered that so much of what they thought that they were in the process of accomplishing under Obama is going to be repealed.
	And the reason, you know what the reason, David, I think they're bothered by it?
	They're right.
	It is going to be repealed.
	The thing that I've been trying to mention is, you know, to push on some of the never Trumpers on my own side, some of the hand-wringers that just can't get excited about all of this is anything that makes the left this miserable has to be a good thing.
	Trump represents, I think, the ability to get certain things done that other Republicans might not have had.
	I went through earlier in the hour, or whenever it was that I went through it, some of the cabinet choices that President elect Trump has nominated.
	If Marco Rubio had won, and he's a guy that I think a lot of mainstream conservatives backed, or Ted Cruz won, somebody that I thought highly of, Or even Jeb Bush, John Kasich, any of the major Republican contenders, Scott Walker that were running for president of the United States.
	All of whom clearly rather conservative, somewhat conservative, very conservative, wherever they were on the spectrum.
	Would any of them have come up with a cabinet this good?
	Maybe.
	But there's no way it could have been better.
	Look at the people in the inner circle.
	Would any of those other Republicans have come up with a team that strong?
	Maybe.
	But it couldn't be any better.
	Plus, what Trump brings, I think, is just a different.
	I'm struggling for the right word here.
	A different approach to the notion of being president.
	I think highly of Marco Rubio.
	I admire him.
	I think highly of Ted Cruz.
	He's got some warts and shortcomings, but I think that he's got a stiff backbone.
	And idea ideologically I'm with him on 99.9% of the stuff.
	But anyone who comes from a background of politics, I think, has this just natural, innate.
	Well, we can't go that far.
	We can only go this far.
	And this is limited Republicans.
	Back when W. Bush was president, there was some notion of trying to reform the entitlements by, if not privatizing, creating private funds as a way of for some people to have the option of investing in Social Security.
	The Republicans folded on that.
	Oh, we can't go that far.
	The media's gonna crucify us for this.
	There is a limit as to how far most Republicans are willing to go.
	Let's imagine Rubio is president, and he comes in with his repeal of Obamacare, the left goes nuts as it will go nuts whenever Trump tries to do what he wants to do.
	The media goes crazy.
	A handful of Republican senators and Republicans in the United States Senate start getting wobbly knees.
	There's just this, okay, we've got to sense the tenor of things.
	I don't think Trump's going to play it that way.
	Trump's gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna get this through.
	And he's gonna play by a different set of rules.
	The very fact that he's not going to do the daily press briefing.
	You know how this just drives the media crazy?
	That daily press briefing is where some poor soul has to get up there and take a bunch of questions from a bunch of reporters who have assigned seats.
	And who has the big seats?
	The major, well, the New York Times gets in row one, the Washington Post is in row one, the AP's in row one, because they're the ones that are important, and they hurl out these questions, and the press secretary's got to sit there and take it and put on the defensive.
	Can you imagine when Trump is president, what they're gonna be going?
	How does President Trump did this?
	How did Trump do that?
	Explain this, explain that.
	And they've just decided we're not gonna do it.
	And if we do do it, we're not going to have this same set of assigned seats.
	Who says the New York Times automatically is in row one?
	Who says the Washington Post is in row one?
	Who says these are the only people that get to ask questions?
	And who says the way that we have to communicate with the American public is to sit up there and have everything filtered through you.
	I believe that Trump, given the background that he has, and let's be honest here, the fact that right now he's gotta be full of himself.
	He pulled this off.
	Trump did things that nobody else ever.
	He's tweeting like crazy.
	He's going into the debate saying things that you wouldn't have thought that you'd be able to say.
	He did a few things that I'm not going to defend.
	He did all this stuff that everyone, oh, he's not gonna win, it's gonna ruin him.
	I remember reading, somebody sent this to me.
	There's this guy who runs Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, he hates Trump.
	He wrote a column that came out in the issue right before the election, in which he explained that not only was Trump going to lose, but he's destroyed his brand by the way that he conducted himself.
	This is what the consensus was that Trump not only wasn't going to win, nobody's gonna stay in his hotels anymore, the golf courses are gonna go to see that his name is ruined, that he's gonna go out as a laughing stock, that everything that he built was instead, he's the president of the United States who's got a Republican Congress, he's hiring a spectacle, he's gotta be sitting back there thinking, wow, I got this figured out.
	In any walk of life, when you approach something with confidence, you do better than if you think you're going to fail.
	Those of you who golf.
	When you're on a roll, you're having a good round, the good round tends to continue.
	If you're sinking your putts, you got a 14-footer, you're not mortified by it, you kind of think you're gonna knock it in.
	On the other hand, if your putts aren't going, it doesn't matter how much you focus and concentrate, you're going to miss.
	Baseball.
	Hitters get hot, they get they get cold.
	I'm a big fan of the NBA.
	Shooters.
	Somebody hits a three, you know what?
	They usually hit the next three.
	You get that sense of things.
	In my own doing of this program, if I think I'm communicating well, if I think I'm making good points, you feel more confident about the next point that you're going to make.
	I think Trump has to feel extremely confident in his ability to communicate and get things done.
	And I think he recognized that not coming from this traditional political background that he thinks he knows how to get things done better than these politicians do.
	So yeah, I think the foot's going to be on the gas pedal.
	And I think he's figured out that you can do things differently than the way that they've always been done.
	Remember when during the campaign when he's running in the Republican nomination, he talked about Republicans who choked.
	Well, this one choked, that one choked.
	They had the opportunity to do this, but they couldn't get it done.
	They cave, they do that.
	Some of that stuff was nonspecific and it was vague.
	But I think in his own mind, he was saying what he believes.
	He thinks Republicans have had a tendency to fall.
	When the going gets tough, and when the media start crucifying them, he thinks they tend to start wimping out and they don't stick to their guns.
	And I think he intends to try it differently.
	Now maybe he won't be successful.
	This is going to be, I think, a very different presidency than any of us have ever seen.
	Maybe a couple of setbacks.
	Trump will change course.
	Who knows?
	I don't think that's what's going to happen.
	I don't know.
	I do think this.
	I think Donald Trump believes that he has a way of achieving the things that he wants to achieve, and that that MO, the style that he's going to use, is going to allow him to get it done.
	Why wouldn't he think that?
	He just got himself elected president of the United States running the most unusual campaign our nation has ever had.
	So of course he's going to think he's going to be successful as president.
	And I don't think he's going to fold under the kind of pressure that have made other Republicans prior to this back down.
	My name is Mark Belling, and I'm filling in for Rush.
	Mark Belling filling in for Rush.
	Time to go to the phones to Sanger, California and Obi, you're on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
	Yeah, I Mark.
	And California used to be a somewhat moderate state, and uh now it's as you know, it's uh the government, the schools, the courts are controlled by the liberals, and uh we've got massive welfare roles, and um uh demographically, we used to be maybe around eight percent Hispanic, and uh now we're over fifty percent, uh millions of whom are uh illegal alien Mexicans.
	And I think building the wall is gonna help us, but what can we do or what can Trump do to try to save this state to uh you know we're now the political correctness capital of the nation, and God is just horrible.
	Thank you for the call.
	I his call, I think fits in with one of the themes that I was advancing here in guest hosting the show today about how we have become two separate countries who don't have many shared values.
	That red and blue map that they did of the United States, you know, the red ear, the red we all know the red states, Republican, blue states, Democrat, when they did it by county, you could see that even in the blue states, the Democrat states, it was mostly just the big cities in those states.
	If you take a look at the red and blue map of the United States, it's basically the coasts, and then a handful of blue pockets in big cities in the rest of the country.
	Otherwise, the whole country is red.
	California is now overwhelmingly Democratic.
	He asks, as a California Republican, what could we do about it?
	I don't know.
	I think it's a lost cause.
	I think that if ever a Republican was going to do well in California, it would have been someone like Trump, who wasn't a traditional Republican.
	Yet Trump got slaughtered in California.
	Every Republican gets slaughtered in California.
	The Democrats have run some of the most terrible candidates for governor in the United States Senate that you could imagine.
	And the Republicans can't beat them.
	Meg Whitman ran out in California.
	Rather moderate, successful business first.
	She got beat.
	Kylie Fiorita tried it.
	She got beat.
	The only Republican to win a statewide election of note was Schwarzenegger, and that was after Gray Davis almost destroyed the state, and Schwarzenegger wasn't exactly a conservative Republican.
	I don't know what you do about California.
	I don't know what you do about the state of New York.
	I don't know what you do about any of these pockets that are overwhelmingly democratic.
	Same problem, America's big cities.
	I mentioned Chicago in what was the number here, 61 or whatever the number of shootings over the Christmas weekend.
	The public schools in these big cities are with some exceptions and individual schools, but as a group terrible.
	The social structure, terrible.
	Yet these cities are run entirely by liberals.
	There's almost no way for a Republican to get elected to anything in any of those communities.
	When Trump was running for president, his line to black voters.
	Well, what do you have to lose?
	Try voting for a Republican.
	Can't get any worse, can it?
	I think that that message might have prevented some African Americans from turning out for Hillary Clinton, but it didn't turn them en masse into Republicans.
	I think, and I just think that we're going to continue in this trend, that you've got the vast majority geographically of the country.
	Think and view things one way, and then the people in the big cities and along the coasts who view things differently.
	Trump has the potential to be transformative in the same way that Reagan was.
	Trump, if we achieve success over the next four years, has the potential to come out and win by an even larger margin in 2020.
	That's what happened with Reagan.
	Reagan won big in 1980 and then carried 49 states and almost swept the whole thing, came real close in Minnesota in 1984.
	Trump has shown the ability to turn some Democratic voters into Republican voters in the same way that Reagan did.
	But as for a state like California, I mean the caller mentioned the demographics, it's also just we're a country anymore that where you live almost for certain determines what your ideology is going to be.
	And maybe Russia's a good better answer as to what we can do to fix California.
	He spent time there.
	I really don't know.
	Mark Belling filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
	Mark Belling filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
	Does this happen to Rush that you've got all this stuff that you're so excited to share with the audience and then you can't get to like half of it?
	That's why he calls his stack of stuff of stack of stuff because he doesn't get to any of it.
	We've got a lot of things that I want to keep talking about today, and I'm enjoying doing the program.
	It's kind of fill-in time for just about everybody in America the week between Christmas and New Year's.
	The some of the topics that I've mentioned so far in America, I'm trying to preach to a group of people that I was once part of, conservatives who were wary of or adamantly opposed to Trump, to open their eyes and their minds that something that you would not have envisioned happening is happening.
	You don't choose a cabinet with the ideologies of the people that Trump is choosing unless that's how you intend to govern.
	The reaction of the left is a major indicator of what's about to happen in our country.
	In this instance, the lefties have it right.
	Those liberals that are mortified and terrified, bawling.
	They have it right.
	They fear that Trump is going to try to repeal everything.
	I think they're right about that.

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