Saturday
I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh much any more. As I turned more and more libertarian, Rush sounded more and more wrong, especially when he relentlessly attacked Ron Paul during the 2012 primaries.
But as a liberal friend once said to me, "Rush always has his facts straight, even if I think his opinions are dead wrong," and it's the political season, so I've been listening to him a bit more these days (which means I catch about ten minutes of his show every week, since I have only a six-minute commute to work). His commentary yesterday really struck me because he basically said what libertarians like me have been saying for years: there is no substantive difference between the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
He didn't phrase it like that. What he said was: The ordinary American is angry at what the Democrats have done to this country, and they're especially angry at the Republican Party for going along with it. Ever since Bush I, the Republican Party has cooperated.
Caller: [Trump isn't] a Republican.
RUSH: Albert, that's the point. That's why he is being propped up and supported, because the people doing so blame the Republican Party for allowing the Democrats to get away with everything they have that has resulted in us being where we are. The Republican Party is ultimately held responsible here for their inaction, their lack of opposition. So when you say Trump's not a Republican, his supporters are going, "Damn right! Damn right!"
And the fact that he's running in the Republican primary is an added bonus because that's another sign that he's taken it to 'em. And the establishment is clueless on this. They still think that Trump has, by giant trickery, gone out and run a scam on loyal Republican voters. The concept that their base is fit to be tied and threw with them, I guess, has not hit them. They're in such a state of denial that they don't realize that.
