Trump Steps Back from “Send Her Back”

RUSH: I’m fed up with it! I’m frustrated beyond my ability to deal with it. I hate the defensiveness. We’re never gonna get… If a rally happens and the chant breaks out “Send her back, send her back,” and if panic ensues, the panic ensues because the people panicking obviously believe that means it can be proven that we’re racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. So we wish they would shut up. So knowing we can’t make ’em shut up, we try to distance ourselves. (impression) “Well, I certainly don’t agree with that chant. I think that chant…

“I think that’s very unfortunate — uh, really, really sad. Uh, we don’t need language like that in our, uh, politics.” What a crock! It’s ultimately harmless. So much of who we are is harmless and good-natured and in good fun, and it gets tarred and feathered as racism, sexism, bigotry, and all of this. And now we have to end up being defensive and make sure that we say (impression), “I don’t support it. I’m not an advocate of that. I’m very sad that it happened,” blah, blah, blah. “Well, Rush, you know it’s true! A chant like that, the media’s gonna do this.” I know the media’s gonna do it. Why do we have to play planning on and act like we’re guilty?

“Oh, man, I wish they hadn’t said it.” To me, it just helps them make their case, which is a bogus case to begin with. “But, Rush, we have to be sensitive to these things. You must understand that they have successfully rebranded us as racists, sexists, so we must make sure that we don’t give them any ammunition.”

Okay. So we’re gonna have to make sure that at every rally, every appearance, that everybody’s cautioned, “Don’t say anything the media could distort. Don’t say anything the media could lie about.” What position are we in then? No-win. We’re in a no-win. And in the process of turning defensive and acting ashamed and wanting to distance ourselves from it, we essentially help them prove their bogus claims.

It really bugs me.

We never learn this. Trump, somebody, whoever got to him, “Mr. President, you need to go out there, disavow.” No, because it’s never enough. Now Joe Biden’s out saying Trump didn’t go far enough. He needs to now denounce the KKK, he needs to denounce the white supremacists in his audience, in his voter base. (imitating Biden) “Mr. President, condemn, outright condemn those folks who came out of those fields, outright condemn the Ku Klux Klan, condemn the white supremacists, let me hear you say ‘I condemn them.’ It’s never enough!

They get to do everything they want, and they’re never punished for it. They’re never hurt by them, supposedly. I played the David “Rodham” Gergen sound bite where he says, “This chant, ‘send her back, send her back,’ that’s suicidal for the Republican Party.” Well, okay. If that’s suicidal for the Republicans, why is Antifa not suicidal for the Democrats? Why is Black Lives Matter not suicidal? These people destroy communities. They launch acts of violence against people. Why isn’t left-wing restaurant owners kicking Republicans out of restaurants…?

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