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Rush: I Never Took Trump Seriously on Immigration
Many conservatives were frustrated during the primaries to see the entertainment wing of the GOP promote the candidacy of the distinctly non-conservative Donald Trump. AM talk radio hosts, Fox News commentators, and best-selling authors made their fortunes by condemning countless Republican office holders as RINOs, squishes, and sell-outs because they made promises on immigration that they refused to keep once in office.
While few entertainers out-and-out endorsed Trump, a majority cheered on his candidacy despite of his lifetime of flip flops and funding liberal Democrats. Whether it was for ratings, access, or personal friendship, their early boosterism of The Donald helped many self-defined conservatives accept the New York b millionaire as a true-blue Republican. But with Trump’s disorganized retreat from his get-tough immigration policy, Rush Limbaugh admitted today that he never took Trump seriously on the issue.
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Allow me to speak for every supporter of the 16 other GOP primary candidates: Now you tell us.
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Where’s Steyn?
One of his months long walkabouts, which seem to happen when ever there is an election coming up.
Marco Rubio, 2010 – “Well, we have a path for citizenship. It’s called coming legally into this country.”
This, on the other hand, want not craven and dishonest. Not at all. Yet he is still the Wonder Boy of the Establishment.
Isn’t it amazing how these radio guys are never wrong?
That’s all you have? But…but…but…RUBIO!!
Yeah, so why don’t you care that Rubio lied about his immigration stance? I’m not voting for Trump, but I’m guessing you’re still a Rubio fan.
I will never forgive Trump Limbaugh and the “Trump Limbaugh, All Trump, All the Time” radio show for helping to destroy our nation with his unfathomable support for the least conservative candidate in a very strong field of candidates.
I guess his audience was mostly mind numbed robots after all.
I care about more than immigration and immigration wasn’t the signature issue that Rubio ran on in 2016.
Yes. He’s known for avoiding fraught situations.
I would guess that you care about immigration enforcement about as much as Ted Kennedy did.
I wasn’t being judgmental (see what I did there?), I was just pointing out that they always seem to coincide with the times you would most like to hear him.
Huh, you mean he’s not going to build the wall? You mean he’s not going to nominate Supreme Court justices from his Federalist Society list? The NRA is going to stop supporting him? He’s not going to repatriate $2++ billions of tax inverted profits? You mean he’s not going to reduce corporate taxes, radically simplify the tax code, reduce regulation, end the death tax, keep God in the public sphere, be tough on crime, expand and restructure the military, curtail the EPA, cut environmental regulation, restructure social security, support school vouchers, charter, and magnet schools, dump common core, defund the Dept. of Education, stop cap and tax, build the Keystone Pipeline, oppose green energy boondoggles, question the global warming hoax, and support federalism?
Immigration was not a real issue. The issue was socialism and marxism. Immigration problems were just a symptom. Trump tapped into xenophobic reactions to immigration and now we’ll probably get a return of democrats to office. After watching the lawlessness of the Clinton I and Obama presidencies, I shudder to think what will happen.
Immigration will be the least of our problems in four years.
You could just ask me.
Although always cynical about Politicians (yet hopelessly addicted to Politics) I considered myself a far-left Liberal until the past year. The only difference in my life being that I cord-cut and started looking for Podcasts based on political thought rather than punditry. Seeing myself as a fair and balanced (im really just using the term) person, I considered Liberals flawed, but at least they faced more truths. In this mindset I stumbled on @jon Gabriel’s Podcast and decided to listen as it seemed to be the most sensible Conservative broadcast I could find.
Immediately, I was yelling knee-jerk positions to myself, which I have always considered to be the response to beliefs that we haven’t investigated to be true. Long story short, in trying to validate being a Liberal lets say I ended up making people very angry with simple questions for which I genuinely just wanted answers. Conservatism is the natural choice for the Republic. I know how Liberals are deceived by Hobbesian traps set by Democrats. Why GOP retaliates by setting their own, I won’t speculate, but I will say it seems to be backfiring (at least more so) for them. I’d like to think its because y’all want the truth more.
I’m alway eager to hear from him. Any time he’s missing is a disappointment for me.
Probably somewhere inhospitable defending western values and free speech whatever the cost or threat.
Yeah, heard him…. Of course it makes sense tack right for the primary, tack left for the general. Get those on the right to believe you are not PC, gonna stick it to the establishment and are the only one who can make America great again. Then in your general tack, just assume that now those who put you in as gop nominee won’t abandon you. Politics as usual…
Rush has a bit of realism about certain things. For example, he has always said that a flat tax, fair tax, or similar idea would never happen as the United States Congress is never going to give up their favorite tool to control the social architecture.
Immigration was never his big issue, although he’s never been a big fan of John McCain and Lindsey Graham. That has more to do with just the single issue of immigration. Rush was always more of a Ronald Reagan-Antonin Scalia-Bill Bennett-Jack Kemp-Steve Forbes-Fred Thompson-Rudy Giuliani guy than some type of Pat Buchanan-21st Century Alt-Right guy.
Which doesn’t jive with his Trump support…
Check out the Federalist Radio Hour. I think you would like it, as well.
Question for the commenters — how many people who heard Trump actually thought it would be converted to a round up and run ’em out? I get the emotion. I wish a magic wand existed to right of all the wrongs that have been done. I don’t doubt that Trump truly wished it could be done without blowback. But it was articulating a feeling of being aggrieved against the scofflaws and those seeking to take advantage of us. It was venting. That plus Trump’s penchant for always doubling down on a venting. So why all of the surprise now that this or that pundit never really thought Trump would do it? I never thought Trump would do it. I am still voting for him in an A/B election cause I don’t really want to aid an abet the coming criminal enterprise that is the Clinton II Administration. And I have no illusions that Trump will Make America Great Again (at least in the way I would define greatness). I am settling. Rush is settling. We’re all settling as we are now beyond any other choice.
To elaborate, why wasn’t Rush from the git-go, telling us how Reagan, kemp, Forbes…. Had positive vision for America, thought government was a hinderance to America and its influence should be reduced. Put forth a positive, uplifting view of conservatism. Had ideology consistent with conservatism. And how trump was deficient in these aspects.
My theory….. He figured Trump would flame out, like most of the rest of us did, so thought he would use him to bash establishment til that happened. Trump gathered momentum…then it was to late, so he caved on his principles and backed him….
I hate cultural appropriation.
Probably. It will have become an intractable reality
Will do, thanks for the recommend.
Digression, another reason I picked his podcast is we are both fans of Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History–actually that’s what made me believe he was sincere now to think of it. Because as a History Grad, Dan Carlin said things I didn’t agree with and made me deal with my own sincerity.
I’ll provide a trigger warning just for you in the future..
I think your theory is pretty close to the truth. This is exactly what Mark Levin was doing until Trump started going after Ted Cruz, then Levin changed sides in about January.
In fairness to Rush, he said very clearly that Trump wasn’t a conservative. Coming from him that is the opposite of an endorsement