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http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/24/rush-limbaugh-compared-to-reagan-trump-is-not-a-conservative-video/#ixzz3sTX5xlwQ

Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that Donald Trump is “not a conservative” when compared with former President Ronald Reagan.

Limbaugh explained, that “compared to Reagan, Trump is not a conservative, and the bulk of Trump’s support is not the Republican base.”

“As we mentioned yesterday, if you look at the demographics, at least as expressed polling data, the bulk of Trump support is what we all have been led to believe the Republican Party wants: blue-collar people, moderates and independents,” suggested Limbaugh. “I mean there’s the fact that they don’t control Trump, and the real thing is they don’t have any money invested, and as such they have no say-so over what he does at all.”

Limbaugh claimed, “There’s a genuine adversarial relationship. It isn’t new, folks, but it keeps intensified. I mean, the adversarial relationship was plain as day back in the in the ’70s when Reagan was attempting to become the Republican nominee, and the establishment Republicans of that day had similar animus to Reagan, and they did their best to discredit Reagan with his supporters.”
 
“Back in the day they joined a bunch of Democrats in the media trying to portray Reagan as dangerous with his finger poised to the nuclear weapons button, the launch button,” insisted Limbaugh. “And I think it is becoming more and more irrational.”

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For many contemporary conservatives, one need not be conservative to gain favor; one must merely be loud and angry and "strong."

That now suffices.

One may use tools of the establishment like eminent domain and bankruptcy, while decrying the establishment. This dichotomy is okay with a not-too-discerning group of followers, provided one is loud and angry and strong enough.

One may criticize the media, having used it to advantage with mastery for all memory.

All this and more is possible, with a not-too-discerning personality cult of followers.

And we haven't yet begun the "Pinocchios," yet.

"God must love the common man, he made so many of them.�  Abe Lincoln