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Rush: The leftist attack on Trump fans in San Jose is anti-American — and it’ll backfire
Hot Air ^ | June 3, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 06/03/2016 4:50:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Via the Daily Rushbo, right on both counts. It wasn’t so much an anti-Trump riot, Limbaugh notes, as an anti-Trump-supporter riot “since they are really violently protesting … American citizens exercising their constitutional right to express their political opinion.” Indeed. Anti-American, straight up. And the more violence there is aimed at Trump and his fans, especially by people waving Mexican flags, the more swing voters will conclude that an authoritarian whose centerpiece proposal involves a border wall might be just what the doctor ordered after all.

He’s also right that some well-known lefties were quick to denounce the riot last night on social media, including John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chairman, which Rush must have missed in the course of criticizing Team Clinton here for not speaking up about what happened. (Hillary herself reportedly called it “deplorable” this afternoon, although after this segment aired on Limbaugh’s show.) I’m trying not to be cynical about motives in the quick denunciations, bearing in mind how readily some progressives reach for the MLK quote about a riot being the “language of the unheard” whenever an anti-police demonstration turns nasty. Many were, I’m sure, honestly disgusted watching average people get sucker-punched for the crime of attending a political rally for a candidate they like. A man off the street minding his own business is the most sympathetic victim of political violence. But the backfire potential here in November has to be weighing on them heavily too. If they don’t send down the word, quickly and emphatically, to left-wing activists that violence against Trump and his fans is Never Acceptable, this’ll happen again — repeatedly. And Trump will continue to benefit from it. So long as his own supporters don’t respond in kind, of course....

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1 posted on 06/03/2016 4:50:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US!


2 posted on 06/03/2016 4:54:58 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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Sho is!


3 posted on 06/03/2016 4:56:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: hoosiermama

Yep the fifth column! I told Hubby to post those two words on Facebook!


4 posted on 06/03/2016 5:01:07 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The press right now:


5 posted on 06/03/2016 5:01:48 PM PDT by struggle (The)
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6 posted on 06/03/2016 5:02:25 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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“And Trump will continue to benefit from it. So long as his own supporters don’t respond in kind, of course....”

Yes. Important that WE remain peaceful and non-violent.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 5:02:43 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Post them everywhere u can. # fifth column


8 posted on 06/03/2016 5:05:19 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...an authoritarian...

Rush is beyond hope.

9 posted on 06/03/2016 5:05:29 PM PDT by Stentor ("Hiding behind 'conservative' while America goes down the toilet is not acceptable anymore." LS)
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Paul Joseph Watson ‏@PrisonPlanet 11 hours ago

According to the Associated Press & the police there were "no injuries" after the Trump event in #SanJose.


10 posted on 06/03/2016 5:08:03 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
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To: timestax

San Jose PD = Cologne PD


11 posted on 06/03/2016 5:08:36 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All Trump has to do is show a few live shots of film from the hoodlums outside of his speeches, then follow it with a calmly spoken warning.

“Is this the America you want to leave for your children? Is this the New America, where all windows are barred, all fences are barbwired, all homes, all places, all people remain under never-ending survailance? Like the Soviets used to do? Vote Donald Trump and Make America Great Again!”


12 posted on 06/03/2016 5:15:55 PM PDT by lee martell
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Limbaught: Your GOPe attacks on Trump and his supporters is anti American and it has backfired.


Daily listener and defender since the beginning. Until you blamed Trump for leftist violence, that is. What's it been, a few months? Never again. Feels good.

13 posted on 06/03/2016 5:17:20 PM PDT by Go No (Remove the "So" from the head of your sentence. See how much better that is?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am suspecting that some people may be thinking much too conventionally in an unconventional time. One would think that experienced people like Limbaugh and Podesta have this right, but...
The exercise of power, of impunity, is itself attractive to those on the other side. Everyone (well, a lot) loves a winner, and those that are seen to “win” over those they can humiliate with impunity can attract more of their own, and moreso create enthusiasm.
And, on the other side, its probably imprudent to discount the morale effect of losing the humiliation game daily on the media for the next five months.
And five months of the Mexican flag in protests means that it will look familiar.


14 posted on 06/03/2016 5:19:43 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has Limbaugh started humping Trumps leg yet?


15 posted on 06/03/2016 5:19:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary and her lapdog media will be quick to blame Trump.


16 posted on 06/03/2016 5:21:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: dragnet2

Limbaugh is dampened if he does and dampened if he doesn’t. There are still Trumpbots that cannot be thankful for a win.


17 posted on 06/03/2016 5:25:06 PM PDT by madison10 (#NeverHillary)
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To: madison10

“Dampened” spell check.


18 posted on 06/03/2016 5:26:03 PM PDT by madison10 (#NeverHillary)
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To: madison10

Are you kidding? Limbaugh was clearly supporting Cruz, who was a corrupt insider POS and most everyone knew it. Btw, given decades of these corrupt loser lawyer politicians, how in tarnation could Trump not win?


19 posted on 06/03/2016 5:30:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: madison10

Yes. I’ve thought that all along too.


20 posted on 06/03/2016 5:36:24 PM PDT by sneakers
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