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RUSH: Phyllis Schlafly passed away, the mother of conservatism, if you will. … I remember Phyllis Schlafly was tough. Phyllis Schlafly was demanding. When it came to the principles of conservatism, she harbored no infiltrators. She harbored nobody insincere about it, and she was able to identify those who were trying to capitalize on it but were not sincere about it. She could spot them a mile away. …

But she was something. She was tough. She was unrelenting. She defined the whole idea of sticking by your principles, standing by them. And, as I say, she did not tolerate anybody halfway. It’s not that she wanted to excommunicate people. She wasn’t exclusionary in any way, shape, manner, or form, it’s just she believed it. And she led and she was insistent that anybody in a prominent role actually be real and not a pretender.

You know, every movement that has a claim in fame has people that want to be part of it because they want personal aggrandizement or fame. She was on the lookout for those kinds of people, and, as long as they were genuine, as long as they were really conservative, as long as they were really interested in advancing the principles, she was fine, … but, if you riled her up, you knew about it.

She was a great role model for a lot of people. She passed away at 92 and has left everyone with her last book and column. Big Trump supporter, big Trump advocate. I think it’s interesting, you know, many in the conservative movement look at Trump as destructive and damaging to the conservative movement, because they don’t believe that he is. And Phyllis was all-in. And nobody will ever challenge Phyllis Schlafly’s conservative credentials. …

But the fact that she was all-in for Trump was inspiring to a lot of people, and she led a lot of people to Trump because of that. And she really did finally decide on this whole establishment versus everybody else alignment, she believed in it, and she thought that the establishment, elites, the ruling class and so forth had many pretenders claiming to be conservatives when it came time to campaign and get votes, but they failed. And it was her opinion they should go.

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