Dangerously Wrong, Misguided, Genuinely Stupid
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RUSH: now they’ve got themselves believing that they are the last line of defense in saving the United States. It’s just… It’s an arrogance coupled with a condescension that is breathtaking to behold — and then you have to ask, what is it about presidential elections that liberals don’t get? When you win, you get four years, and then you run again. If you win again, you get four more years, just like Obama, just like George W. Bush.
It’s the way it works.
Just because your candidate loses doesn’t give you the right to run the winner out of town or out of office because his four years are up. But because Trump is from the outside, because Trump is not from (whatever you want to call it) the club, he’s gotta go. And they claim that they’re the last line of defense of our democracy.
And that leads me to the USA Today piece that I referenced at the top of the program. This is by… Let’s see. Tina D-u-p-u-y. … she’s an opinion contributor at USA Today. A week ago she had a piece entitled, “Donald Trump Broke the Presidency. It’s Time to Get Rid of the Job Altogether.” Like I said, when the Democrats, when the left lose anything, suddenly the whole system is bad. … When they lose an election, when they lose the presidency, when they lose something, suddenly it’s the system that’s gone bad and it needs to be overthrown. It can’t possibly be that they were rejected for legitimate reasons. It just can’t be.
“Donald Trump Broke the Presidency. It’s time to get rid of the job altogether. Donald Trump is proof that the U.S. presidency is broken and democracy is in peril. It’s time to amend the Constitution and abolish the presidency.” This babe, Tina Dupuy, is a former Capitol Hill staffer. I don’t know if she’s a ChiCom spy like was on Dianne Feinstein’s staff, but she was a Capitol Hill staffer. She has written for The Atlantic, for the Los Angeles Times, for Vox, and for Mother Jones. And she is a host on satellite radio’s leftist channel.
“We’ve seen it: the belligerent typo-ridden tweets; the fawning press conferences with autocrats and overlords; the self-described Nazis on parade praising an American president’s name. We have seen it with our own eyes. There is a bloated authoritarian lounging in his bathrobe in a 200-year-old mansion that used to symbolize the principal republic of the world. This is a man who openly conspired to cheat with the help of a hostile foreign nation in a federal election.”
Now, this is what I mean. These people literally believe something that did not happen! The Russians did not affect the outcome of an election or a single vote. It’s the Democrats that worked with Russians to sabotage a campaign, not the other way around. And this woman, published by USA Today, a former Capitol Hill staffer, is embarrassingly dumb!
There’s no other way to describe this. It’s not enough to say she’s wrong or misguided. This is just genuinely stupid. … They’re misguided, they’re incorrect, they’re wrong, they believe the wrong media, but this is just — how do you write this? You lose an election, it means the presidency is no longer worthwhile, it’s been sabotaged, the Constitution needs to be amended?
You know, in her piece, which I shared with you, which I read very interpretatively well, she talks about all these horrible things Trump can do because he can. What does that mean, “Because he can”? They are livid when Trump executes presidential power. They are livid when Trump fires James Comey. They are livid when Trump does his travel ban. They are livid when Trump nominates a Supreme Court justice.
They can’t stand Trump exercising presidential power. That’s what they can’t come to grips with. That’s what they cannot accept. They can’t accept losing. They can’t accept that kind of power being in the hands of other people. And since it happened, then the way it happened must be corrupt. When they lose, we gotta get rid of the presidency. And USA Today publishes this?
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