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Dear Rush,<\/p>\nDear Rush,<\/p>\n
I’ve been listening to your program for probably 16 years now.\u00a0 I believe I’ve\u00a0agreed with most everything you say.\u00a0 But this election cycle, I’m just not connecting with you.\u00a0 And I’m not the only one.\u00a0 And you know it.\u00a0 You lament two or three times a day about how often you’ve explained Trumpism and anti-Trumpism.\u00a0 You’re tired of\u00a0explaining it\u00a0over and over ’til you’re blue in the face.\u00a0\u00a0Here’s an example of your frustration from Friday:<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 See, I think I have gotten hoarse explaining anti-Trumpism.\u00a0 Who have I not explained why they’re anti-Trump sufficiently to you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well Rush, “Who” is me.\u00a0 I don’t believe that you’ve explained it all, at least not very well.\u00a0\u00a0I’m not being contentious; rather I’m agreeing with you.\u00a0 You’ve said\u00a0you blame yourself when your audience doesn’t understand you.\u00a0 That’s why people keep calling asking you to explain these things.\u00a0 I myself have listened to you and read and read, and everytime you say you’re going to explain this all to everybody, you lose me.\u00a0 I keep waiting for that explanation and it just never seems to come.\u00a0 So the caller says this:<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 …when it comes to the people that don’t want to vote for Trump — and I don’t mean the establishment. I don’t mean the elites that are afraid of losing their jobs, everything you explained. I mean, the common man… The common man. Not the elites, not the party establishments, the common-man people that do not want to vote for Trump even though they do not want Hillary Clinton, either…\u00a0 Non-famous, everyday people you meet in the grocery store or work or whatever you do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And it’s hard to put your finger on this, but I think this caller hits the nail on the head.\u00a0 What he’s identified is that you\u00a0fail to distinguish the common man in your explanations.\u00a0 Let me attempt to explain.\u00a0 In another place in the program, another caller\u00a0asks a similar question.\u00a0 We see your frustration again in the beginning of your answer.\u00a0 But please go through this with me as I explain.<\/p>\n
RUSH: …I have answered this question over and over again time and time and time again.\u00a0 I’m not could you give you of not listening. I’m just prefacing this.\u00a0 I’ve answered it all last fall starting in August after the first debate, right through February-March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
See, in your mind, you’ve done a great job explaining Trumpism and anti-Trumpism.\u00a0 You just can’t believe that you’ve got to keep explaining this.\u00a0 Now you’re going to define the question that you believe you are answering:<\/p>\n
RUSH …Your question: Why do these various groups on the right — this conservative or that conservative, conservative movement here or the Republican Party, individual Republicans.\u00a0 Why do they not just line up behind Trump and focus on Hillary as the as the enemy and be done with it?\u00a0 And let me see if there’s a brief way of rehashing what I have explained over and over again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Do you see how you identify the subject as “this conservative”,\u00a0\u00a0“that conservative”,\u00a0 “conservative movement”, and “individual Republicans”?\u00a0 Okay,\u00a0most of us Rush fans have learned about conservatism from YOU<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0We’ve all been attending the Limbaugh Institute for Conservative Studies.\u00a0 Some may have graduated.\u00a0 So when you say “this conservative, that conservative, conservative movement”, to us (the common man) that has been listening and learning for so long, have identified ourselves as such.\u00a0\u00a0WE<\/strong> are this conservative and that conservative.\u00a0\u00a0We ARE<\/strong> the conservative movement!\u00a0 We are the subject that you’ve\u00a0identified.\u00a0 The subject is YOUR<\/strong> audience.\u00a0 So then you go on to try to answer the question:<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 …\u00a0I think what we’re witnessing: actually things I predicted last fall.\u00a0 Because this degree of panic, fright, fear, anger is so deep, it almost seems like the effect on these people is personal.\u00a0 And the reason they’re not lining up behind Trump is because Trump is blowing up the existing order. His victory — well, his assumed victory as the nominee — is blowing up the existing order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Okay, so the mind of the common man<\/em> hears this and says,\u00a0 “Panic, fright, fear? \u00a0I’m not panicked, frightful, or fearful.\u00a0 I’m really not sure who he’s talking about now.\u00a0 Anger? Well okay.\u00a0 Yes, everybody is angry at the establishment. I’m\u00a0listening…\u00a0 Blowing up the existing order?\u00a0 Huh?”\u00a0 I’m this conservative.\u00a0 I’m that conservative.\u00a0 I’m the conservative movement.\u00a0 Rush, this is where you really start to\u00a0lose me.\u00a0 I want the existing order blown up.\u00a0 Conservatives want the existing order blown up.\u00a0 I want the power hold that the elites have on the government broken.\u00a0 I want these career politicians taken out.\u00a0 I’m a conservative.\u00a0 Why would blowing up the existing order<\/em>\u00a0give your audience a degree of panic, or fright and fear?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0I’m a long-time listener; a believer.\u00a0 I love my country.\u00a0 I love the constitution.\u00a0 I love liberty.\u00a0 I learned it from you, Rush.\u00a0\u00a0 Why would you think that blowing up the existing order would make me angry?\u00a0 Your question is why do they<\/strong><\/em> not just line up behind Trump;\u00a0 “they” being “this conservative or that conservative, conservative movement here<\/em>“?\u00a0 Now look where you go:<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 And if he became president, it would blow it up even more, in these people’s minds.\u00a0 One example.\u00a0 I’ve mentioned it a couple of times, if not more.\u00a0 In the establishment, it’s basically a network. It’s a closed club.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And there it is!\u00a0 In these people’s minds?\u00a0 So far, Rush, according to what you’ve said, I’m “these people” and I thought you were too.\u00a0 This conservative or that conservative, conservative movement here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And you\u00a0keep doing this over and over and over these past six months.\u00a0 Listen to what you’re saying. “One example…. In the establishment…”\u00a0 How\u00a0on God’s green earth do you say that an example of this conservative or that conservative, conservative movement here\u00a0<\/em>IS the establishment?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You keep doing this.\u00a0 I don’t know if you’re doing it intentionally or unintentionally, but you keep doing it.\u00a0 I am not the establishment.\u00a0 In fact, I’m not sure much of any of the electorate (common man) is the establishment.\u00a0 You are inadvertently grouping Cruz supporters,\u00a0conservatives, YOUR\u00a0audience\u00a0with the establishment elites.\u00a0 And you’ve been doing this throughout the campaign.\u00a0 As soon as you hit the subject of anti-Trump, you make a B-line to the establishment.\u00a0 I understand that the establishment is anti-Trump like they’re anti-Cruz.\u00a0 But the electorate, the common man that is anti-Trump, is NOT<\/strong> the establishment.\u00a0 Is it that you just can’t admit that the conservative electorate and the establishment elite actually have a common enemy?\u00a0 Who’s the purist?\u00a0 That’s why people keep calling you, asking\u00a0the same question and you keep hitting a brick wall.\u00a0 And if that’s not enough, sometimes you’ll also do the same thing with the Black Lives Matter and the Code Pink crowd.\u00a0 It’s like we don’t exist in your head.<\/p>\n
For the life of me, I can’t\u00a0understand why you do this.\u00a0 The example I just gave has been repeated over and over and over on your program for months.\u00a0 Almost everyday I listen to you, you group the common man conservative with the establishment in your “anti-Trump” comments.\u00a0 Quite frankly, I find it hard to believe that you don’t know you’re doing this.\u00a0 I understand you have to stay above the fray, and stay in a position where you can do whatever it is you do.\u00a0 But my God, this is not El Salvador and San Salvador.\u00a0 This is Israel and Iran.\u00a0 Would you be so nonchalant about Trump if he was running as a Democrat like he said he was years ago?\u00a0 Just because he’s got the ‘R’ now, he’s off limits?\u00a0 I just really don’t understand.\u00a0 If you knew a year ago that these two clowns were the\u00a0choices we’d be left with in the end, would you do things the same?<\/p>\n
Rush Limbaugh, the champion of conservatism, everyday of the year, year after year,\u00a0BUT<\/strong> the unbiased, fair and balanced, journalist during the nomination process.\u00a0 Since when was this a news show?\u00a0 And I don’t know Rush, maybe your answer to the common man caller explains why you keep doing this. This is how you answered:<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I have limited contact with people in the grocery store,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Maybe you need to go to the grocery store.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0just saying\u00a0maybe, you’re getting a little out of touch.\u00a0\u00a0I love your program.\u00a0 I’m not someone from the\u00a0outside that just tuned in.\u00a0 I’m not the enemy trying to give you a scathing review.\u00a0 I’ve been listening to it for 16 years.\u00a0 I remember when my firstborn went from crawling to dancing to the EIB Music.\u00a0 Pump Pump Pununump Tadump Tadump Tadudanump!\u00a0 I’ve bought your tea.\u00a0 I’ve bought your books.\u00a0 So this might be difficult to hear this, but here’s the rest of your answer to the common man caller.\u00a0 And I’m going to list them::<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 …but I could tell certain things that…<\/p>\n
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- His “coarseness.”<\/li>\n
- He tweeted out that picture of Ted Cruz’ wife.\u00a0 But it was… That bothered them.<\/li>\n
- His comment about Megyn Kelly and blood coming out of her…<\/li>\n
- They don’t think he knows anything,<\/li>\n
- He’s faking it<\/li>\n
- He’s too off the wall<\/li>\n
- Too unpredictable<\/li>\n
- Dangerous<\/li>\n
- He may not be really qualified to have that much power in his hands as president of the United States.<\/li>\n
- Some just don’t like his personality.<\/li>\n
Some are jealous of him.<\/del> (Common man is not jealous)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nI mean, it runs the gamut.\u00a0 It’d be hard to say that there’s a dominate reason why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
First of all, I want to compare this to something you said in another segment of your show:\u00a0 When you read this, ask yourself this question, who are you talking about?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 By the way, there’s one more answer to the question, “Why don’t people line up behind Trump?”\u00a0 And it’s this.\u00a0 There are some people who are true-blue, red, white, and blue, top-to-bottom, front-to-back, wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor conservatives.\u00a0 It’s the essence of their existence, and they are appalled by Trump.\u00a0 They don’t think he is. They are scared. They have devoted their lives to conservatism and promoting it, and they are in utter panic that somebody like Trump can come along and simply… Well, however they perceive whatever’s happened to happen.<\/p>\n
Wipe it out, dominate it, trounce it, what have you.\u00a0 I mean, my point is that there’s some true believers in there, too, that really feel hurt and scared because they’ve poured everything they’ve got into it, and they’re scared to death. And it’s apparently so fragile that, in their minds, a carnival barker can come around and talk people out of what they have believed for ten years, 15, 20 years, whatever.\u00a0 And so it frightens them for the future of the movement that they so love, and it frightens them for the future of the country.\u00a0 I mean, you’ve got countless number of reasons to explain why people on the Republican side will not line up with Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Look, I don’t know who you’re talking about.\u00a0 But if you’re talking about the common man, you’ve got a lot wrong.\u00a0 It’s not some<\/strong><\/em> people. It’s a lot of people.\u00a0 And they’re not scared.\u00a0 They are disgusted and repulsed by the vile character of Trump and the manner in which he’s (almost) won this nomination.\u00a0 Character matters and morality matters.\u00a0 We’re not in a panic.\u00a0 We’re in anger.\u00a0 Conservatism is not fragile in our minds, but the nation is and our freedoms are.\u00a0 And it’s not fright for our future, but it’s of the desire to fight for our future that we oppose this man.<\/p>\n
And if not the common man, then who?\u00a0 Your brother?\u00a0 Mark Levin?\u00a0 Thomas Sowell?\u00a0 Ted Cruz?\u00a0 Are they the only ones who are true-blue, red, white, and blue, top-to-bottom, front-to-back, wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor conservatives?\u00a0 Can not the common man be that?\u00a0 Look at your list for the common man, Rush!\u00a0 You didn’t mention one thing about true-blue conservatism.\u00a0 You didn’t mention one thing about principles and the love of country, our constitution, our liberties.\u00a0 Oh no!\u00a0 The common man I guess is too shallow.\u00a0 He’s jealous of Trump!\u00a0 Do you see how you inadvertently belittle the 58% of the Republican electorate that does not want this man as our President?\u00a0 No doubt you’d say you don’t, but nevertheless, you do.<\/p>\n
Secondly, your answer to the common man is crystal clear.\u00a0 Let me sum\u00a0up what you’re really saying to your audience:\u00a0 “I really don’t know.”\u00a0 Yet you tell us over and over and over that you do know.\u00a0 And you tell us over and over that you’re explaining it when you’re not.\u00a0 “Anti-Trumpers are scared and insecure.\u00a0 They have problems dealing with people’s personalities, so shallow that insults affect them so much.\u00a0 They won’t vote for Trump because he’s rude.”\u00a0 Oh, but\u00a0the pro-Trump movement, you call it a PHENOMENON<\/strong>!\u00a0 You say that\u00a0Trump’s campaign is\u00a0BRILLIANT<\/strong>!\u00a0 You even said one time “TRUMP IS ME<\/strong>!”\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 You need to go to H.E.B.\u00a0 Or better yet, take a stroll at the Piggly Wiggly.\u00a0 These are\u00a0YOUR<\/strong> explanations; and quite frankly, much of your audience does not agree.\u00a0 That is reality.\u00a0 And I think the mayor of Realityville is having a problem understanding this.<\/p>\n
Lastly, what worries me the most are the implications of what I’ve described.\u00a0 I can understand you doing this unknowingly or inadvertently.\u00a0 Hey, we all make mistakes.\u00a0 But what is yet to be determined is if this is intentional.\u00a0 It seems to me like you’re going down and promoting the path of the Savage Nation.\u00a0 In his book, Government Zero<\/em>, in the chapter Saving a Nation with Nationalism<\/em>, he states the following:<\/p>\n
It’s time to abandon conservatism as the defining principle of our movement.\u00a0 It has become meaningless.\u00a0 Conservative<\/em> has come to mean anything anyone who joins the Republican party says it means…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have no choice but to believe that IF<\/strong> you are purposely doing what I’ve previously stated, you are in fact watering down and distancing yourself from\u00a0the term conservative<\/em>.\u00a0 If this Trump movement is truly a Nationalist, Populist movement, you seem to be enamored with it.\u00a0 You say yourself that it FASCINATES<\/strong> you.\u00a0 I’d be okay with all that if at the core of the Trump\/Nationalist movement was in fact the\u00a0underlying principles of the conservative; that at the core was\u00a0the same substance\u00a0found at the core of our founding fathers and the revolutionaries.\u00a0 But it’s not.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 At the core of this movement is ignorance to the principles of liberty, lies and smears of good, conservative, God-fearing people, misdirected anger, and confusion of a most dangerous kind.\u00a0 It seems that at the core is\u00a0Alinksy himself.\u00a0 Your audience knows that change is needed and change is most desired; but you’ve admonished us for years that when it came to the liberal’s intentions that the ends don’t justify the means.\u00a0 That doesn’t change with Trump and that doesn’t change for the conservative.<\/strong><\/p>\n
I am in no way saying you are abandoning conservatism.\u00a0 It just seems to me like you’re tired of being on the losing side.\u00a0 I am too.\u00a0 I understand that.\u00a0 I may be wrong, but it seems to me that your hope, if we can endure it,\u00a0is that conservatives can ride this tidal Trump-wave to power and influence.\u00a0 \u00a0I think it’s your way of dealing with the grim reality that the silent majority<\/em> is now so ignorant, amoral, and unprincipled that it may never come around to conservatism and the principles of our constitution; that nationalism (regardless of\u00a0what it’s founded upon)\u00a0is somehow necessary vehicle\u00a0to change this country.\u00a0 I think it’s folly.\u00a0 It’s putting the cart before the horse.<\/p>\n
I hope that I’ve put to words what many are thinking.\u00a0 I appreciate your time in reading this.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the common man<\/p>\n
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I’ve been listening to your program for probably 16 years now. I believe I’ve agreed with most everything you say. But this election cycle, I’m just not connecting with you. And I’m not the only one. And you know it. You lament two or three times a day about how often you’ve explained Trumpism and anti-Trumpism. You’re tired of explaining it over and over ’til you’re blue in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,12,13,7],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","tag-cruz","tag-republican","tag-rush","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RushAgain.jpg?fit=253%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7qg4l-adfa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}