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May 09, 2016

RUSH: During the break at the top of the hour, I came across the latest piece by Victor Davis Hanson writing at National Review.

[H]his basic premise is that it’s kind of strange that we’re worried about Armageddon being brought on by Trump, when we’re living the apocalypse of Obama and Clinton. Now, this is something I think Trump supporters have already figured out, and I think a lot of people instinctively have come across it, or had it reflected in their minds as they ponder all of this. It certainly spells it out for me. …

Whenever I run across Republicans out there just bellyaching about Trump and losing their minds over Trump, like last Friday when I summarized for you the genuine fatalistic “it’s overism” out there in so many different sectors of American conservatism. I read excerpts of some of these pieces to illustrate, and I asked, “Where was all this during Obama? Where’s all this rage? Where’s all this anger at stuff that actually is happening and has been happening for seven and a half years?”

We haven’t had any anger of the sort from the Republican establishment that’s being directed at Trump. This is not a defense of Trump, by the way. I’m not saying any of this from a pro-Trump position here. I’m simply observing. And it has amazed me. To this day, folks, to be bluntly honest with you, I remain really surprised I had nobody joining sides with me on January 16th of 2009 when I said, “I hope he fails.” When I was telling the story about the Wall Street Journal wanting a 400 word op-ed from a bunch of people on their hopes and expectations of Obama’s presidency.

“I don’t need all that, I can do it in four words: I hope he fails.”

And I got nobody joining me. I got some on my side attempting to explain it, but they wouldn’t join me. And I had a cacophony of people saying, “That’s outrageous. You don’t say that. We should all unify behind our president. We should all come together. Nobody wants our president to fail, because nobody wants our country to fail.”

I said, “You’re missing the point. I want Obama to fail because I want America to survive. I want Obama to fail because I don’t want progressivism and liberalism to win.” What’s so hard about this? I got no joiners. As I say, I had some who defended me on it, but there wasn’t an echo, and there wasn’t a chorus. And I, to this day, remain surprised because I thought that it was a very principled, conservative position to have, to hope liberalism fails. I mean, to me, that’s what this is all about. Meaning this program.

What this program’s been all about is attempting to educate, inform people of the pitfalls and the dangers of liberalism, progressivism, socialism, the left, or what have you. And we knew enough about Obama weeks before he was inaugurated and know exactly what was going to happen with his administration because he had told us. For example, he told us he was going to shut down the coal industry by making it impossibly expensive to stay in it. He told us that he was going to slither his way to single payer health care. He told us that he was going to do what he could to transform the very identity and makeup of this country, and I said, “Why isn’t there any not just outrage, why aren’t people frightened by this?”

I was. I was scared to death of what President Obama intended to do, and it wasn’t just because I know who liberals are and what they’re gonna do; he had said so, in numerous interviews going all the way back to the early 2000s, not to mention the things he had said in the campaign. Not to mention the Jeremiah Wrights and the Bill Ayers and the people that were his friends. It was all there, every bit of it was foretold. So, to me, it was only natural to say, “I hope he fails.” So, likewise, I have been amazed throughout these entire seven and a half years that there’s been all kinds of outrage that members of the Republican Party express for other Republicans or conservatives, but I haven’t heard anything in any kind of proportion whatsoever aimed at Obama. And now Hillary.

Even during the IRS scandal, even during Obamacare, from the establishment. Sure, there was a conservative media that was all over this stuff, but from the standpoint of anybody else, where was the outrage? And this outrage at Trump, to me, has always been out of proportion. This fear, this shouting of the dangers Trump represents. What the hell do you think we’re living through is?

Anyway, that’s the point of Victor Davis Hanson’s long piece here at National Review. We’re worried about Armageddon on the Trump horizon while we’re living amid the apocalypse of Obama and Clinton. It’s a brilliant piece. And you know why you’ll say it’s brilliant? It’s because it’s so obvious. It’s once again somebody cutting through all the noise and getting to the meat and potatoes of what’s happened. …

“The choice in 2016 is not just between Trump, the supposed foreign-policy dunce, and an untruthful former secretary of state, but is also a matter of how you prefer your obtuseness — raw or cooked? Who has done the greater damage to the nation: would-be novelist and Obama insider Ben Rhodes, who boasted about out-conning the ‘Blob’ D.C. establishment, or bare-knuckles Trumpster Corey Lewandowski?”

Now, Hanson’s point is, Lewandowski has this dustup with a reporterette, and everybody goes ape and wants to put the guy in jail, wants charges, wants a criminal trial, wants the guy fired, wants the guy strung up. They want Trump disqualified for having such a thug. Meanwhile, we learn that we’ve got a guy lying to the American media but who we are negotiating a nuclear deal with with Iran. Speaking of which we’ve got a guy, Lewandowski, supposedly should be prosecuted, put in jail for grabbing a reporter by the arm.

Meanwhile, we just got an administration here who’s seen to it that the Iranians are gonna have a nuclear bomb. So Hanson, where is the sense of proportion? You think Trump’s an idiot, you think he’s got thugs working for him and it’s gonna be bad? What about what we have had to endure the last seven years and where has been the proportionate outrage?

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