From Rush...on Trump

So many words used to describe the Trump phenomena, and most are
fitting.  One I can think of is "fascinating", which is rarely used describing
anything in political circles.

What is "fascinating" has been that so many professional political observers
have yet to accept the reality of this election year. It is not like any other,
only they fail to use this fact in the barometer they use to predict what
will occur!

They continue to rely on the same template to describe what is going on,
pay too much attention to Trump, and too little on the people who have
given him the most votes for almost a year.

But, someone does "get it" and surprisingly, with millions of listeners its
apparent the cable talking heads don't tune in.

Rush received numerous calls saying " Trump is not conservative", "Trump is
not a Republican",  "Trump was a Democrat" , "Trump donated to Hillary
Clinton". All may be true, but such concerns miss the point!

The following is something to media should read and absorb.

Excerpt from Rush......

Here comes Trump, who's not ideological.  He's not conservative. He's not liberal. 

But in this campaign, if you had to categorize him that way, he is standing for more things that conservatives identify with than he's not.  His immigration position is strictly conservative.  His view on terrorism is strictly conservative.  But he's not a conservative.  He's not a movement conservative.  As such, he posed a threat because the people that are out there seeking donations, fundraising on the assurance they're the ones that can keep conservatism prominent, say, "Oh, my God!"  But their donors began to start saying to them, "Where is this conservatism you guys have been promising?  Where is it?"

They haven't seen any in seven years in the Republican Party.  The Republican Party doesn't want any part of conservatism. Now, if you talk to Jim DeMint at the Heritage Foundation, he'll say, "In Washington, yeah.  But you look at all the efforts conservatives have made in the states. There's governors -- conservative governors -- left and right out there." There's evidence all over country that conservatism is triumphing at the state level, but none of it in Washington.  But then there's a conservative governor of Georgia, and he just caved on this religious freedom bill.  Nathan Deal.  So, look, the point is that rank-and-file conservative voters began to ask: "Where is all this conservatism that we've been contributing to?" 

Which then caused there to be threat, or panic, whatever, within certain elements of the quote/unquote "conservative movement," and they then began to see Trump as a threat.  That begot an argument of populism versus conservatism, and people began to think, "Wait a minute.  Maybe conservatism isn't dominant.  Maybe populism is."  All kinds of self-doubt related questions started being asked.  Now, I can go back and remind everybody of all of these things that I have said to try to explain what's happening here, starting last June when Trump popped up -- and I know it's a lot to remember. 

I don't mind repeating it now and then, when necessary, in order to be clear.  I'm in the communications business.  It doesn't do me any good if people don't know what I mean when I say things.  So any opportunity I get to clarify or to maybe say something again a better way to actually get my point across, I relish the opportunity.  So when people call here and don't quite remember what I said, I don't mind having to repeat it.  I don't want to get so repetitive that you think that's all you hear on the program.  But at the end of all this, my objective hasn't changed, and that is the Democrat Party -- which is the home of liberalism -- must lose.

At the end all of this, that is my objective. 

I don't feel duty-bound to maintain or protect or promote anything but the country, from what I believe is its greatest threat internationally and domestically, and that is radical, left-wing whatever you want to call it: Socialism, liberalism, you name it.  If populism beats it, I'm gonna be fine and dandy with it.  I'm not gonna feel like it's unfair if conservatism is not what beats it. Because at the end of the day, defeating liberalism is the key and the only thing that is going to work when replacing it is conservatism. 

I am confident conservatism is going to triumph and prosper, whether people know that it is or isn't.  Whether people know they're conservative or not, whether they think they're ideological or not.  It works every time that it is tried, and it... Well, not every time. Obviously there are exceptions here.  But issue by issue -- be it economics, morality, various social issues -- it triumphs. It's rooted in decency, morality, all of the virtues.  

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