Posted on 05/27/2016 5:38:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I have to tell you all something. You people in this audience, I am so impressed, you in this audience have memories rivaling my own. And I am genuinely dazzled by it.
I had a number of emails today asking me how in the world I am going to defend Trump for saying... When he was asked what he wanted the Republican Party to be, his answer was, "I want it to be a worker's party," and there are people in this audience who remember me decrying that term and ridiculing that term as having socialist, communist roots. I've always pointed out socialists and communists... Fidel Castro. He calls the citizens of Cuba "workers," for example. The father of Elian Gonzalez, the little five-year-old kid that Janet Reno stole and sent back down to Cuba?
Fidel, when he talked about this talked about the dad of Elian Gonzalez, he said, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a great worker. He's a good worker." And I have always... That's just cringe-worthy to me. People are not "workers." That's a robotic term for the way socialists look at the hoi polloi. So here comes Trump. He's asked what he thinks the GOP's gonna be in the future.
He said, "I want it to be a worker's party." So people say, "So, Rush, the Republican nominee uses a term that you properly tie to socialism and communism. What do you think about that?"
I've got all these people challenging me on this. Can you imagine the memory that these people must have? Right here. "Trump: I want the GOP to become a 'worker's party.''' Folks, I'm just gonna tell you: He doesn't mean it that way. Trump's not a socialist or communist. He doesn't mean it that way. Trump, once again, is using terms as they are actually defined in his world. I know exactly what he means by that, and he doesn't mean anything socialistic or communistic about it -- and the reason I know that is because he doesn't think that way.
Trump is not an ideological guy in that way. So what Trump is simply saying, I am convinced -- and if you can prove me wrong, feel free to have at it. But I'm convinced that what Trump is saying is that he wants the Republican Party to be on the lookout for people that work for a living. Blue-collar people, whatever. But he wants the Republican Party to be the champion of them. It's easy to figure out what he means here. He's out there talking about trade deals and immigration and all the people getting shafted by this.
We all know who those people are. These are people in the manufacturing sector and other sectors of our economy where jobs have been displaced and lost and moved abroad. I know exactly what he means by that, and he's not talking about socialism, communism terminology. If you wanted to take it a step further -- and he doesn't know this, either. But, you know, one of the Republican Party's brand problems has been that it's always been identified with management: Big Business, management, entrepreneurs.
I mean, you have to admit that the Republican Party and many in the conservative wing of the Republican Party spent a lot of time talking about entrepreneurs, particularly during campaigns. They talk about the job creators. "We gotta get out of their way. We gotta grease the skids. We gotta make sure entrepreneurs have what they need," and the Democrats have always... It's just been assumed the Democrats are the home to blue-collar working people, and the Republicans are home to... This is incorrect, but this is the branding. This is the way it's evolved.
So Trump comes along: "I want to see the GOP become a worker's party." He's not talking about a socialist or communist country. He wants the Republican Party to represent the very people in this group, the very people showing up to his rallies, the very people whom he's already championing: People getting up and going to work every day. He doesn't know this other stuff. By the way, that's not an insult, either. It's not a comment on Trump's knowledge or ignorance; it's just the way he thinks. And so many people in this can't figure that out.
He's totally outside the box. They keep trying to plug him into the playbook and the behavioral patterns and so forth that have traditionally been defined by political campaigns and politics in general two parties, and he's not. He's an outsider. He doesn't talk that way. He violates PC every time he opens his mouth. So there's still people that can't figure it out. And there's still people looking for any opportunity whatsoever to trip him up, and they thought this was one of those
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RUSH: In fact, I think the public understands almost everything Trump is saying. When we take time to explain Trump, I'm explaining it to the Drive-Bys, in many cases, and, in some cases, Republicans who don't get it. Of course, the Democrat don't, either. But see, folks, this is why there is such panic in the political class. Everybody does understand Trump. He doesn't have to be explained. Everybody gets it. They might disagree, but everybody knows what he's talking about.
He's not lying. He not camouflaging. He's not masking. He's not PC. And everybody else in the political establishment does all of that. So that's another reason why there's so much abject panic of Trump. Now, there's also substantive disagreement with Trump in many sectors, too. I'm not trying to categorize all of the disagreement with Trump as surface stuff. There is some serious substantive disagreement with him on the part of many conservatives. I understand that. But in the context of this whole thing about Trump saying "I want to see the GOP become a worker's party," in general the fact that his supporters do know what he's talking about is one of the things that rattles so many in the political class. Here's what he said. He was asked what he thought the GOP would look like in five years. He said, "I love the question. Five, 10 years from now, different party. You're gonna have a worker's party, a party of people that haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years. They're angry. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security, big mistake for the Republican Party, and I know it's a big part of the budget. Cutting it the wrong way is a big mistake, even cutting it at all." "I'm not sure I got there through deep analysis," when asked about his views. "My views are what everybody else's views are. When I give speeches, sometimes I sign autographs, I get to talk to people, I learn a lot about the party, I learn what people say by listening to what they say to me." He said he learned that voters were disgusted with Republican leaders and channeled their outrage. It isn't complicated. Everybody wants to complicate this, and it isn't.
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I like the idea of Trump taking words back. In his context, “workers” more closely corresponds with the group known as “taxpayers” than what the Democrats refer to as “workers”. Trump does not exclude from the group just because your work takes place in an office or in an operating room, or even if you are well compensated for extraordinary skills, authority or importance.
Rush seems to be back on the Trump train.
Any educated citizen not only knows, but grasps the difference.
But the National IQ has dropped steadily in the last 56 years, so too may words in our language have been perverted to conform to the new "reality," which many of us reject wholesale.
A worker is someone who produces a service or product which is in demand by the whole of society. It must also be viewed by all of that society as a positive contribution.
All else is governmentally induced and sanctioned theft.
“Rush seems to be back on the Trump train.”
THANK GOODNESS. He’s at his best when he’s not making an idiot of himself drooling over Rubio or trying to give Cruz credibility.
As to the use of the term “workers” - Trump is actually referring to people that actually work and contribute...to the Dems ‘workers’ mean just the opposite.
Do you reckon he had a 'Come to Jesus' moment?
Rush spoke good things about all of the Republican candidates, ALL of them. He has always operated that way during the primaries, he always will. But he always gets the same old tired accusations of "drooling" over a particular candidate by the people that do not understand his show.
I think his sponsorship revenue dropped, so of course he would change. As he has said many times, “Follow the money.”
I do understand his show...and he was WAY TOO NICE to Rubio, who was arguably WORSE than Jeb on Amnesty - since Rubio nearly shoved it down our throats - and Rush did not drool over Jeb.
And I was not the only one pissed about it, either.
Trump is running the 2 minute offence & blitzing the whole game! The opposition isn’t getting a chance to set up and make a play or plan a strategy. Just as they come up with a plan Trump already got a 1st down and is driving for the score.
His little quote from Trump is why I’ll follow him to the ends of the (political) Earth and back. He gets why the GOPe keeps losing. It’s mostly the same agenda but tweaked slightly to respond to the actual regular everyday people out there who aren’t leftists but who also can’t relate to the “Masters of the Universe” who everybody thinks the Republican Party exists to serve.
Hell's yea. I am right with you.
They're worse than the low-info folks because they purposely close their eyes and ears because they don't want the truth to be real.
He's just showing Ryan what a thinking Republican does under the current circumstances unless one prefers to try to further betray the "constituents" (The People).....
If Rush was the person I thought he was, he would have been a full throated supporter of Trump way back.
He wasn’t, and he isn’t.
I don’t listen to this minder anymore.
Frankly, I think he used FR as show prep, without attribution.
I think it’s brilliant. Position the GOP as the party of people who work for a living, and (in contrast) the Dems as the party of the unproductive.
I love the way Trump is taking the language back. “Worker” doesn’t mean socialist or communist, it means “someone who works,” just as “America first” doesn’t mean pro-Nazi, it means “Americans come before foreigners.” I’m tired of the left owning the language, and trying to control our thought processes by redefining terms.
Go Trump! Make English Great Again!
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Some years back, a commentator—I think it was Howie Carr—characterized the Democratic New-speak by saying “by workers, they mean people who do not work.” Trump is talking about the producers.
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