Posted on 04/28/2016 1:44:57 PM PDT by onyx
RUSH: So we had the Trump speech yesterday and there has been all kinds of reaction to the speech, predictable and some shocking, some surprising. We'll get into it today.
Trump used a phrase in this speech, and I'm gonna tell you, this is classic, folks. This little bit of information I'm gonna impart here to you is a great way to understand the dynamics of this race. Trump, in his speech, used a phrase "America first." Well, that phrase has a pedigree. That phrase is well attached to something very, very important and potentially very, very negative in American history.
It goes back to World War II, and it was used by those who didn't want to get anywhere near stopping the Nazis. "America first" was the rallying call of anti-war people, for the most part, who said, "The hell with it. We don't care. They're not affecting us. If they want to take over Europe, fine and dandy."
So here comes Trump using the phrase "America first." Well, the learned intellectuals in the foreign policy corridors of America needed the vapors. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God, does Trump even know? Oh, my God." They can't get over it. "Does he even know," they asked, "does he even know that 'America first' means support of the Nazis? Oh, my God! Oh, my God." And they started fainting and going on TV and acting like one of the greatest violations of foreign policy understanding and (gasping).
So the debate began, does Trump even know what he said? Does he even know what "America first" means in terms of its historical context in World War II? Or is he just out there using a phrase "America first" because he's appealing to a brain-dead bunch of voters, which is how the establishment looks at Trump supporters.
And it doesn't matter, because I'll tell you what's gonna happen. If the people who occupy the learned and elite foreign policy corridors go overboard on this "America first" business, it's not gonna separate Trump supporters from Trump. The intellectuals of the foreign policy corridors, the establishment, the clubs and the associations and the think tanks and the intellectual hangouts and the domains, if those people start harping on Trump, your average Trump supporter could say, "See? See? This is exactly the kind of nose-in-the-air arrogance that we want to get rid of."
The attempt to insinuate that Trump doesn't care about the Nazis, that's how they're gonna hear it and it's just gonna cement them even tighter to Trump. It's not going to make them think that Trump doesn't know what he's talking about, which would be the objective of people who bring up this "America first" business.
But the takeaway from Trump's speech yesterday, the only thing that matters, as far as Trump supporters are concerned -- and the rest of the people out there can analyze this, and they are. You have some people calling it incoherent and vacuous and empty and wandering in vain for search of a thought. There were people, pro-Trumpists, who said that it was the most important and timely substantive foreign policy speech since 1981. Of course the people that said that caused a massive reaction from the professionals in the foreign policy corridors of elitism.
But as usual there's just way too much analysis. People overanalyze this and apply their own biases, prejudices or whatever to what Trump is doing, and there's just really one takeaway. If you want to know whether or not Trump's speech yesterday was a hit with the voters that he has energized, all you have to know is Trump said the following: We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism. That's it. Everything before and after is irrelevant. That line made the speech one of the greatest ever.
That line, as far as Trump supporters are concerned, was all they needed to hear. That was awesome. That was right on the money. We're gonna take it to 'em. We're not gonna play second fiddle anymore. We're not gonna sell American interests out. We're gonna put America first. We're gonna get rid of the globalists. And I guarantee you that's all they needed to hear.
Now, other people are gonna analyze it much deeper and so forth, and have. We could spend some time -- I mean, sometimes it's fun to analyze the analysis, because there's so many people pulling their hair out today. They're just hoping and praying that every time Trump shows up and makes what is billed as a serious speech, they want him falling flat. And they want everybody to realize that he's fallen flat. And they want everybody to realize that Trump doesn't know what he's talking about, 'cause that's what they think.
And when that doesn't happen, they panic. And then they go overboard trying to convince people, "You're wrong! Trump's not this great guy! He doesn't know what he's talking about! He's gonna put the country at great risk." People don't want to hear it, don't believe it, they think Trump's the only guy who does get it, in terms of understanding America's enemies, America's opponents, what we're up against, and how we have to deal with it.
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Rush did not say that at all. Read a book.
The left is trying to corner Trump as being an isolationist even with the likes of the holocaust happening. Rush is calling it Bullshit.
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I am not referring to Rush as a NeoCon. I am saying the labels change over time.
You grow up.
Rush is being an ass by bringing this up.
Trump does not have that era in mind, and he’s not doing something evil by saying he’ll implement policies that make America stronger and it’s citizens safer and more well off financially.
What does bringing this up do except smear Trump.
Left?
Have you seen William Kristol lately?
Rush's (willful?) ignorance about this astounding. The "America First Committee" was disbanded on December 10, 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor. AFC supporters included JFK, Gerald Ford, and future Justice Potter Stewart. These and many others simply believed we shouldn't get involved in a European war, and quickly changed their minds once we were attacked and Hitler declared war against us. I'm not sure any of them thought it would have be "fine and dandy" if Germany took over Europe. Maybe Rush could supply some evidence for this assertion?
The Nazi association comes from Charles Lindbergh, who some thought was a Nazi supporter. He was a spokesman for the AFC. Lindbergh, too, sought to support the war effort as soon as it commenced but was slowed down a bit by FDR who kept him out of the military. Lindbergh had to get involved by supporting American manufacturers and did eventually fly a number of combat missions against the Japanese as a civilian.
ML/NJ
>>What does Rush want - something like “America Last AND Elites First’?
To Rush, the Elites ARE America. In his mind, they are the “producers”. The rest of us are just serfs to be used and discarded.
I am reminded more of this meme than any political slogan: 
I’m a Rush fan - I’m praying he doesn’t go the Beck route...
Rush needs his Oxycontin.
Just another establishment talking head blathering.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, AMERICA FIRST!
HOORAY Trump
An individual American not afraid to take a stand for the republic and its citizens in contrast to uniparty criminals and kabuki theater extras.
***I’m telling you, Rush is starting to tick me off. To imply anything Trump said in that speech has being about Nazi’s is a huge stretch.***
And don’t think for a second that that wasn’t intentional. He also made it sound like America First is something wrong and not to be aspired to, like America First is some how anti- American! It shows you once and for all that Rush is a corporatist globalist! Stop listening to his damn radio show! It’s time his numbers plummeted and he went home.
This is such a wounderful observation on your part. And we should stop and analyze these moments to discuss and expose the rhetorical games these pimps of punditry play.
The context is Nazi and it is a strong context. There was no need to place the discussion that happened yesterday in the context of 1939 - this is a disinformation technique and a hit job.
Rush can say no no no this is what all the elites are say erstwhile painting a picture worth of Hemingway when it has not to do with anything.
Whats wrong with America government looking out for the interests of the nation first - it should go without saying and when saying common sense is a cause for histrionics well ...
But further look how Rush tries to simultaneously have it both ways by talking about the globalist line. I bet he even went in to one of his voices when he did the yeah thing.
Just as the context of placing the America first in pre war Germany is a purposeful distortion to attach facist photons to Trump placing the average American's objection to getting screwed over by greedy bastards whos fathers and grandfathers fought for, built this country and as soon as possible these largely draft dodgers have sold out there fellow America for the price of living in posh boring homes with meaningless gates around them - to a xenophobic protection position of the past is an almost reactionary reasponse that is pretty stupid when you think about it.
America is under attack by terrorists, by the progressive left, by the greedy globalist and probably 13 other types of stone cutter.
One way free trade has been a false song and Distingushed American Rush has been an apologist for some of its lead singers. DJing their greatest hits.
God forbid it comes of to be true Bushes knowingly helped the 911 funding members of the Saudi Arabian folks then Rush will have part of that whole megaphone.
Careful Rush we are watching
To where it should always have been.
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Amen.
American policy should always be in our interests.
Too late...
“Rush, your a globalist, always have been, so go with the people that support your $$$”
Rush is obviously playing for someone other than Team America. I don’t know if it’s even an identifiable group he’s pitching for.
It could just be that he’s mentally scrambled by a complex jumble of old alliances, friendships, agreements, stuck considerations, ego, jealousy, isolation, conflicting prognostications, personal biases....dunno.
I just know that he’s begun to sputter, and isn’t firing on all cylinders anymore.
One slight critique. It’s ‘you’re’ (you are), not ‘your’.
Thank you, even a college graduate I still mess those up....lol...thank you FRiend...
I heard it the same way Hostage.
I am a lifer with Rush, but his condescending tone he takes with every Trump supporter is sickening.
He has explained it to me every day for two weeks and I still can't get it.
If Rush had said what you heard, it would have been OK, but he didn't.
He could have opened by condemning those that were attempting to tie Trump to the Nazi then I might believe what you heard, but he didn't.
Rush has joined Beck and Levin in this insane attempt to label Trump supporters as morons that are unteachable. He attempts daily to explain why I don't understand his wise opinion, while he makes no attempt to understand the Trump supporters, rolling his eyes and flinging his hands. He should turn off his Ditto Cam when taking a call from a Trump Pest.
You’re welcome, Lady. I love your posts and your energy. You’ve been an inspiration to a lot of quiet followers.
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