The Depth of Democrat Defeat
in 2016: Liberalism Was Rejected and Repudiated, 11/15/16
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RUSH: I've been looking at the
election results in even greater detail, and I'm here to tell you that the
defeat the Democrat Party suffered this election, and you add it to 2014 and
the midterms in 2010, it's even more devastating than I thought yesterday and
last Friday, and you know I've spent a lot of time delving into it. It's just
massive how shellacked the Democrat Party is.
The election on last Tuesday, week
ago today, you can call it the icing on the cake or a nuclear bomb, I don't
care what, but even before last Tuesday, the Democrat Party was disappearing.
And it just amazes me the illusion that was created that hid that from
everybody, even though it was right in front of us. We knew it. We knew they
were losing seats in the midterm elections, but because of Obama's approval
rating and the illusion created by the media that the Democrats were ascending,
we were convinced to ignore what we were watching. We were convinced to ignore
what we saw.
But I'm not gonna let that happen
again. I'm gonna stay focused on this because this defeat -- do you know how
many states in this country now have a Democrat governor, Democrat legislature?
Take a guess. How many states, there are 50, not 57. There are 50 states. How
many of those states have a Democrat governor and Democrat state legislature?
The number is five. However, it's actually four. In Connecticut there is a tie
in the state senate there, and the tiebreaker goes to the Democrats in that
case. But in real numbers there are four states that have a legitimate, without
using a tiebreaker, Democrat governor and Democrat state legislature.
They are Rhode Island and Hawaii,
both states you could put in a thimble, and Oregon and California. That's it.
Connecticut is number five, if you count the tiebreaker. Now, what constituted
this defeat, or what led to it? The Democrats are doing their postmortems on
this right now, and, folks, 2002's repeating itself and the media is in
full-fledged BS mode. Remember the story we had yesterday that the Trump
campaign had no idea that they had to staff the West Wing?
Remember the story we had yesterday
that Trump had no idea that 4,000 jobs had to be filled and that Trump was
going to rely on Obama to help. Do you realize that story is a totally made-up
lie? We're just gonna have to start assuming this when every story in the
Drive-By Media -- and the New York Times has now come out and said that they
essentially are going to be the voice of the opposition. They are once again
throwing journalism aside, throwing it overboard in favor of being the loyal
opposition.
We're just gonna have steel
ourselves here and the first, the default reaction to any media story that has
anything incredulously stupid, dumb, or negative about Trump is to not believe
it, folks. That has to become our default position. The default position cannot
be, "Wow. That's incredible. Wow, man, if that's true," and then go
look for it. The default position, to be intellectually honest with ourselves,
has to be rejection. Because it is still in full swing. The media's doing
everything they can to cast the Trump election as a mistake, as a temper
tantrum, as an oddity, and it is anything but that.
It is substantive. This was an
ideological election. They are trying to say it was a change election. And by
change election they mean the voters just wanted something different. It is a
cyclical thing, the analysts tell us. "Yeah, they just got tired of seeing
the same faces and they want to go a different direction." And don't you
believe that, either. This was the continuation of the people of this country
rejecting liberalism and its sponsors, who happen to be the Democrat Party. There
is no if, and, or but about it. There's no maybe. There is no possibly.
It is a definite repudiation and
rejection of everything liberal, including President Obama, who I watched a
little bit of his press conference today with the prime minister in Greece. I
gotta be very careful here. Our president is in a sad, sad state of denial. And
if you were here yesterday, you heard me describe the precarious balance that
our nation finds itself in the next two months, because we have a president who
has been rejected fully and thoroughly, who is in denial about it, does not
accept that. In fact, he thinks that he was not even on the ballot.
He thinks that what he has done and
what he stands for was not even on the ballot. That Hillary didn't work hard
enough, that right-wing media didn't get the facts straight and that the
Republicans lied their teeth off, and so it didn't have anything to do with
him. I mean, the denial here is overwhelming. But it may be that we want that
because of the precarious balance we have these next two months. I mean, we
have a thoroughly rejected party that still controls all the levers of power.
So it's walking a bit of a tightrope here.
Now, I'll play the audio sound bites
of Obama coming up and you can judge yourself. But I just want to again
establish and have it said without any doubt whatsoever this was an ideological
election and it was the third such ideological election where liberalism was
repudiated and sent packing. And by liberalism, I mean the policies of Obama
that were rooted in the expansion and growth of government. That's what was
sent packing, and that is ideological. If it has anything to do with Big
Government, trade deals, Obamacare, immigration, whatever it was that the
Democrat Party was seen as standing for was totally repudiated.
Liberalism was rejected like never
before, and this needs to be taught. There are people on the winning side,
people who voted for Trump, who need to hear, it's a teachable opportunity,
learning opportunity, teachable moment. It has to be done very carefully
because most people are not, by nature, ideological.
One of my often-stated... Not
complaints, but if I could change anything, it would be a massive education
about liberalism so we wouldn't have to go through this ever again, because it
ends up always being rejected. Woodrow Wilson was rejected. FDR after a while.
LBJ. Some of them never even got a chance like McGovern, Jimmy Carter. It
always ends up being rejected. Now, you might say, "Well, conservatism is,
too."
I would say no to that because the
only real conservative president we've had is Reagan, and he won two
landslides, and he would have won a third could he have been on the ballot. But
liberalism is rejected, and it's not just because people grow tired of faces
and not because people want to see something new and want to see change. It is
specific. We have three elections to document it here. The Democrats are now
out there claiming they get it, they understand, or they're in the process of
understanding.
They understand that they have
ignored flyover country. They understand they ignored the white, working class
vote. They understand. They did all this on purpose. They did all of this
strategically. They threw in with a coalition of minorities, cultural and
political minorities. And they banked on the fact that there would be a winning
majority with that approach. And there isn't, and that is heartwarming to
realize as well.
The protesters, by the way, it has
been stated by me because I know it; I have no doubt about it. I found the ads
on Craigslist, but now it's been documented. Protesters in Oregon who have been
paid to protest didn't even vote in Oregon or anywhere else. A whole slew of
them have been interviewed and investigated. They didn't even vote, and yet they're
out there protesting the outcome of an election. They're bought and paid for.
In some cases, they're being paid $1500 a week, some cases 12 to $18 a day,
some cases 24/7.
We have lived a mirage. We've been
living as the objects of delusion for the last eight years. The depth of this
defeat, five states with Democrat governor and Democrat state legislatures. Do
you realize the meaning of that? Do you realize the power that has been lost,
has been rejected by voters all over this country? Five states -- and it's
actually four, if you throw out Connecticut because it only wins because of a
tie in the senate with tiebreaker. But it's just incredible. In 2010 we saw it.
Nine hundred seats in the 2010
election, 700 more seats in the 2014 election. We add to it that the media
making up the fact that Trump didn't know you had to staff the West Wing, that
Trump needed Obama's assist, made up stories. They're actually the result of
leaks, people... Oh, like the Trump kids demanding or Trump demanding security clearance
for his kids. Grab sound bite number 22. Kellyanne Conway was on Fox &
Friends today. Ainsley Earhardt said, "We're getting reports that the
Trump team seeking top security clearance for the children. I want to know if
that's true."
CONWAY: That was an informal
question that was posed by someone. It doesn't sound like it was a formal
request. And again, somebody leaked it, I don't know if to embarrass or stir up
trouble. But, look, the Trump children will be very supportive of their father
and his presidency.
RUSH: Right. It's understandable
that Trump would want security clearances for them because he wants their
counsel. He wants their advice. They have been advising him throughout, and not
only here, but in his businesses. It makes total sense. And again the people
that reject this are people from the old school who have the existing playbook
that the establishments’ used, and if it's not in there, well, then you can't
do it. I mean, there's so many great things that have happened in this election.
The whole donor class had it thrown
back in their face. The professional political consultants class, they had it
thrown right back in their faces, and they were so much of what was wrong on
the Republican side by refusing to treat the Democrats as the opposition.
Anyway, that's old ground. I want to plow new ground, and there is continuing
new ground with the depth of this Democrat defeat. I want you to think now
about all that you heard before the election regarding Trump and demographics
and how it all added up to he had no prayer.
Let's review -- and not everything,
but let's touch some of the high points. I don't care where you went. You could
go to Fox News, you go to CNN, MSNBC, you could go to ABC, NBC, CBS, you could
New York Times, Washington Post, wherever you went, they told you that Trump
was gonna lose big with women, that women, they were not gonna put up with
Trump. Particularly educated, college educated white women. Ditto Hispanics.
There was no way!
Trump had come down the escalator at
Trump Tower and he'd called illegal aliens from Mexico rapists and murderers,
and they weren't gonna put up with that. And besides, because women all vote
alike, we were told, and Hispanics all vote alike, they're all monolithic
thinkers. They all think alike, all women do and all Hispanics. They all think
alike and they all vote alike and they were all universally said to hate and
despise Trump.
And even on election night noted
experts on Fox News kept reminding us of the late voting and early voting Hispanic
population. It was way, way up and it spelled doom for Trump. And although this
was stated with a smile on the face by the various analysts and strategists and
commentators and pundits who are treating us to their expertise. Not only that,
blacks. Oh, man, it was gonna be brutal! African-Americans just hated Trump
'cause they loved Obama, and they loved Hillary.
And all women. Didn't matter what
race, didn't matter sexual orientation, women were totally all on board and
devoted to the idea of the first female president. Break that glass ceiling!
Hillary schedules her election night victory at the Javits Center that has a
glass ceiling. I mean, it was never ending. I'm sure you remember all of it.
I'm sure that you believed some of it. I'm sure that some of it alarmed you,
because on the surface it seemed to make sense. I mean, Trump was out there.
They had the Access Hollywood video. They had all of this.
But you want to hear some actual
demographic results as compared to 2012? Well, I have them right here, my
friends, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. (shuffling papers) By the
way, Brian has added a thicker stock of paper to the printer, which helps me,
by the way, in separating pages, but it has a different sound. Not that
different. But, anyway. By demographic, men versus women. In 2012... Well, no.
Let's go with this year first. In 2016, Trump got 54% of the male vote, up 5%
from 2012.
I know numbers are hard to follow,
but try, folks. This is the gender demographic breakdown. In 2016, Trump got
54% of the male vote, an increase of 5% over Mitt Romney. Trump got 42% of the
female vote. That is minus 1% from 2012. That's nothing. Trump was not supposed
to get over 20% of the female vote. That's what polling told us. That's what
the experts and the analysts told us. But Trump got 42% of the female vote.
Race. Trump got 1% additional white vote over 2012, but in the black vote Trump
added 7% more black support this year than in 2012.
Trump plus-8 Hispanic votes this
year versus 2012. So white, black, Hispanic, Trump increased Republican votes
by 7 to 8%. Not supposed to happen. Age: 18 to 29, Millennials, were supposed
to come out in droves for Hillary. They were just gonna bury Trump. Trump got
5% more votes in 2016 than Romney got in 2012 in the 18-to-29 demographic.
Income... I've gotta take a break. I just looked at the clock. But this is
pretty much it. Everything they told us where Trump was gonna die
demographically just didn't happen. In fact, for the most part, Trump improved
over Republican performance Romney in 2012.
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RUSH: The bottom line here, ladies
and gentlemen, is this election is a mandate election unlike elections we have
seen in the past. There aren't many like this. There's no doubt about this.
There is no way the Democrats... They're gonna try and the media's trying to
spin this as an accident, as a temper tantrum or whatever, but don't fall for
this. I want you people to be up. I want you to be happy. I want you to be
confident. I want you to understand that you're in the majority and you're
winning, and you never were in the minority.
And this is a golden opportunity the
likes of which nobody expected and we haven't seen in a while, and it was a
mandate election. Trump has a mandate. Everything that we have undergone --
every penalizing and punishing policy that we've been subjected to for the last
eight years -- was sent packing. It was rejected. It is a mandate election.
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RUSH: Here are some hard numbers for
you. What has happened to the Democrats under Barack Obama's presidency? If you
want to know what the Barack Obama legacy really is since Obama became
president in 2008. The Democrats have lost 11 seats in
the Senate.
They have lost 60 seats in the House of Representatives. They have lost 14 governorships. And as I previously stated, there are only
four states in this entire country where the Democrats control the governorship
and the state legislature, only four out of 50. Since Obama became president,
the Democrats have lost 900 state legislative seats all across the country. They
have lost mayor's offices. They have lost city council.
I mean, it's all the way down the
ballot. This repudiation is deep, and it is specific. It's why Trump has a
mandate. It is a rejection of what Barack Obama stood for. It is a rejection of
every policy Obama put forth. It's a rejection of the ideology of Barack Obama.
There's nothing happenstance. This decimating defeat took place over basically
six years.
Obama got a honeymoon the first two
years, and to show you the depth of denial that Obama's in, we got the sound
bites coming in, pardon the sniffles here, folks, nothing's wrong. It actually
may be cigar smoke causing the sniffles. Nothing to worry about. Everything
cool here.
I'm watching Obama in his press
conference, joint press conference with the prime minister of Greece, who
really -- Obama would be asked a question and he would take 10 minutes
answering it, and then they'd go to the prime minister of Greece for the
follow-up, and he would just kind of throw his arms out and make a facial
expression like, "I have no idea what to say to that," because it was
so absent and devoid reality.
Obama said that the reason this
election had nothing to do with him, it had nothing to do with him. There were
a bunch of liars out there in the Republican media and in media at large, and
people did not have their facts straight. He said people loved the repairs made
in infrastructure in the past eight years. I mean, folks, you know, it's
actually not denial. It's classic Democrat liberalism. Just lie. Lie about your
accomplishments. Lie about your achievements. What you do is, you take your
intentions, what you hope to accomplish, what you think you're gonna get done,
and then just act like you've done it. That is liberalism in a nutshell. You
pile all of your hopes and your expectations and your dreams into this little
package called "it happened," and then you run around talking about
all the great things you did.
He's in Greece talking about all the
infrastructure improvements in America and how the American people have great
appreciation for him, for having done it. You watch this, and you ask yourself
serious questions about, what is this? Is this denial? Does this represent
strategy? I mean, what is this? Because none of it, none of it was true. Listen
to the New York Times writing about this. This is our old buddy Jonathan
Martin, used to be over at Politico. He said, "The Democrats'
stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower-level
contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on
cultural issues has all but crippled them by diverting voters' attention from
the core Democratic message of economic fairness."
Translation: The Democrats got so
absorbed in uprooting American culture by letting people of any gender use
whatever bathroom they want and gay marriage and all this other stuff, that
they forgot their attachment to the, quote, unquote, little guy.
"Over President Barack Obama's
two terms, Democrats have embraced a down-the-line cultural liberalism that
energized his coalition of millennials, minorities and college-educated whites.
But the growing nationalization of politics and the Democrats' drift to the
left doomed a number of candidates." It goes on and on and on and it gets
close, but it doesn't quite get to the real reason all of this happened. And then there's this. "Now,
without rebuking the still-popular president directly, many Democrats share a
growing recognition that Obama's way may not be the best course in a country
where many voters have experienced little income growth and where high-paying
jobs can be scarce."
You think? You think? So what
happened to the Democrats? Why did they abandon the, quote, unquote, little
guy? And this happened back in November of 2011. Why did they? And it was
actually stated in a column in the Washington Post as campaign strategy for the
upcoming 2012 campaign. They announced that they were going to abandon the
pursuit of the votes of the white working class in America. Thomas B. Edsall
wrote the piece. Why would they do this? One answer, one name, Barack Hussein
Obama.
The people the Democrat Party
abandoned are the people Obama doesn't like and the people Obama blamed for
America being the way it is: racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, the bitter
clingers, white, working-class Americans. And Obama took his party to where he
believed the victims of white, working-class Americans were wallowing away in
misery and obscurity, and that would be minority populations of one type or
another. Basically what you have when you have an angry, irritated community
agitator and community organizer as chief exec.
And this man remains the titular
head of the Democrat Party, by the way, and he's going to see to it that he
does. He's not leaving Washington after his presidency. He's going to stay
there. He's going to be the face, he's going to be the top dog in the Democrat
Party. He's gonna be on TV rejecting, stopping, obstructing, whatever Trump
tries to do. Make book on it. Is gonna happen. He's gonna do it from his only
venue of experience, and that's community organizing and agitation. So we may
be looking at four years.
We might now have an actual new Big,
as in Big Protest. Big Protest might become a never ending, ongoing movement
bought and paid for by the Democrat Party, made to look organic and natural.
This is what community agitators do. It's what community organizers do. They
get people riled up and protesting. And where they don't do it on their own, they
pay for it. They hire them to go do it, and that's going to be the titular head
of the Democrat Party. And as long as that happens, the Democrat Party is gonna
continue to lose elections big.
That's why I say it's incumbent on
as many people as in a position to do so to explain to people, what you don't
like about America is liberalism. What you voted against, that's what
liberalism is. When you hear us describe liberals and liberalism, it's what you
just rejected. It's what you just repudiated. Liberalism is what happened to
your health care. Liberalism is what happened to your economy. Liberalism is
what happened to open borders and immigration. Liberalism is what happened to
the education of your kids. Liberalism is what happened that put this country
into decline.
The thing is, you need to
understand, it was on purpose. Liberals did what they did on purpose. It wasn't
because they thought it would make America great. It wasn't because they
thought it would make America greater, because they don't believe America
deserves to be great. Their protest signs even say so. Colin Kaepernick even
says so. America never has been great as far as he's concerned. And to the
Democrat Party and your average, ordinary liberal and leftist around the world,
America has never been great but, furthermore, doesn't deserve to be because of
all of the mistakes America has made since its founding, and those are
basically cultural.
They are racism, sexism, bigotry,
discrimination, all of that. America deserves to be in decline. The powerful in
America deserve to pay the price unless they are aligned with Democrats as
cronies, and then they will be exempted. So Wall Street was exempted, Big Bank
was exempted, certain Big Retail was exempted, but if you weren't crony aligned
with the Democrat Party, you were going to feel the full force of the power of
the federal government. America, as far as liberals are concerned, doesn't
deserve to be great, it deserves to be in decline. That is the only way, in
their view, that the grievance industry can get justice.
Social justice mandates that America
be in decline because that's the only way the guilty can be punished. And with
liberalism, it's about punishing, it's not about rewarding, it's not about
elevating, it's not about raising people, it's not about taking people from the
lower middle class to the upper middle class and beyond. Liberalism is about
punishing achievers, punishing success, and blaming them for the plight that
everybody else is in or feeling. And by that definition, the country must be in
decline. It's no different than liberals telling you they're gonna go raise
taxes on the rich, and you saying, "Well, how's that gonna help me?"
And the liberal says, "It's not
gonna help you, but it's gonna punish the people taking your
money.""Oh, oh, okay, well, you punish them, damn right, you go
punish them." But understand now it's not gonna elevate your standard of
living.
"Yeah, that's fine, that's
fine, punish 'em, I'll feel better." That's liberalism. America deserves
to be in decline. America never was great and doesn't deserve to be great the
way it was founded and the way it's constituted. America deserves to be
punished. That's Barack Obama. That's his agenda. That's what was rejected,
because a majority of Americans doesn't buy into that at all.
And all of these eight years were
such a shame. It's nothing more... It's a shame how many of us were on the
verge of believing we'd lost our country and that we were vastly outnumbered
and that we had lost the country to them, to this. But it wasn't true, and it
isn't true. America came through. PJ Media: "At Every Level of Government,
the Democratic Party Is Dead." They do not deserve to be revived by a
Republican Party feeling guilty, magnanimous, or even obsessed with the notion
of unity.
The way to achieve unity is not by
incorporating a little bit of what the Democrats want with our agenda. The way
to achieve unity is not by reaching out to the protesters and saying,
"What can we do to make you happier?" The way to achieve unity here
is to firmly and finally establish that we are a growth nation that is devoted
as our founding proclaimed to liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness
for everybody, and you are more than welcome to join us as we head back in that
direction.
But we're not going to incorporate
what you have believed as a means of being fair, as a means of being nice. It's
too serious. This has been the Republican Party's problem. With every victory
came a certain amount of guilt and a desire to almost apologize for the victory
by including Democrats in whatever we were going to do. Now, you might be
noticing the Republican leadership not doing anything like that right now.
They had their big meeting today,
first press conference, all wearing Make America Great hats. They're wearing
Trump hats. These guys are fired up like I've never seen them. They're enthused
like I've never seen 'em. They're out there; they're ready to roll up their
sleeves. They're ready to get going today to implement the Trump agenda.
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RUSH: Email during the break:
"Why are you spending so much on what we already know? The Democrats
lost." Because I want it to sink in. I want everybody to have confidence
how big this is. I want everybody to know. I said before the election and in
the immediate aftermath, when you take away the things I have to do here
because this is a radio program and it's the broadcasting business, radio
specifically, there are retirements there to succeed. And since we're in the
free market and capitalism we don't have donors and we don't have funders.
The program has to succeed. If that
doesn't happen all the rest of this is academic. So beyond that, beyond trying
to meet those demands that I place on myself and how I define professional
success, the purpose of this radio program has been to defeat the left. I mean,
there are many other things as well, but the overarching objective here has
been to educate and to inform people about the pitfalls and the dangers of
liberalism. And folks, this election is it. Whether people realize it or not,
and that's what I hope to build upon is people realizing why this happened,
liberalism, leftism, whatever you want to call it, was rejected, repudiated big
time.
So many people don't want this to be
seen as an ideological election, primarily Democrats, 'cause they don't want
you to know that that's what happened. They want you to think it's something
else, just a change election, people tired of the same old faces, want to go a
different direction. No, no, no. It's much more specific than that, and even
maybe some of the people that contributed to this big victory and defeat of the
Democrats may not have done so because they wanted to stamp out liberalism, but
they ended up doing it.
And it's a big, big deal. It is an
overwhelmingly, massively successful thing. It's one of the things I was hoping
for when we got the victory in the House in '94. So, to me, in a personal
sense, folks -- I'm sure you can indulge me one little personal desire here --
this is huge. It is overwhelming and it's joyous, this massive defeat. So
that's why. 'Cause you want everybody listening to the sound of my dulcet tones
to understand exactly why this happened. And I'm gratified. There were people,
all the smart people, all the learned pundits and commentaries, even on Fox
News and CNN, wherever, who, before the election, in addition to saying Trump
had no prayer, were saying that the Republican Party was practically
nonexistent, it was about to be wiped out, and that conservatism was the reason.
They wanted us to believe that
conservatism equaled Republican landslide losses. Conservative nominee, that's
why we couldn't have Ted Cruz, that's why we couldn't have Rubio because it
would have been nothing more than another Barry Goldwater landslide defeat. And
that ticked me off. Conservatism's been our only way out of this mess. And
Trump has learned it as this campaign has gone on. You can tell it by the
people he's thinking about putting in his cabinet. You can tell it by Supreme
Court nominees. It matters.
Conservatism is ascendant and is
triumphant. And there are even conservative publications who don't want to
admit this or say this because they're afraid to, but it's true. There is a lot
to be ecstatically happy about in this election, and I'm trying to just remind
everybody what it is. And the media isn't going to report it this way. They're
not going to cast this election in anywhere near the truthful light that it is.
Once again, it falls upon me to do so, and I happily am here to do it.
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