http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/09/somebody_told_you_this_would_happenSomebody Told You This Would Happen
November 09, 2016
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RUSH: We'll go back to the archives, just a couple of sound bites of me from this program. First, on the day Trump announced, we're gonna go back to June 16th, 2015, this is the day that will live forever. Donald Trump and the wife, Melania, traveling down the escalator at Trump Tower to deliver a speech announcing his candidacy that everybody in the media laughed at. What did I say?
RUSH ARCHIVE: This is gonna resonate with a lot of people, I guarantee you, and the Drive-Bys are gonna pooh-pooh it. They're gonna relegate it to the carnival characteristics of the campaign and so forth, but it's gonna resonate.
RUSH: Right. And it did. And now May 4th of this year. And I must say, for those of you new to the program, I spent much time in the campaign explaining to people who didn't understand it, why Trump had such support. I explained the people who supported Trump. I explained the reasons those people supported Trump. I defined why that connection was so deep and solid.
I pointed out to anybody who would listen how they were not going to be able to talk people out of supporting Trump. That they were not gonna be able to use the techniques as usual in politics, coming up with dirt about somebody's past and blabbing it out over the media and causing them to resign. That's not going to happen. The only person that can damage Trump is Trump, I said. I gave detailed explanations of the performer's ego that Trump has, how he established a connection for all the braggadocio. That there were at least 30 seconds in every appearance where Donald Trump told his supporters he loved them and he was honored by them and he appreciated them and they heard him.
They knew he was genuine. They knew he was being honest with them, and they were loyal in return. I practically lost my voice telling people. During all this period of time, I'm being reamed for betraying conservatism. I'm being raked across the coals for betraying conservatism. The objective of this program has been to defeat the left. I mean, aside from the broadcast requirements I have for success, you know, maintaining an audience, holding it, growing it, charge confiscatory advertising rates, all that.
But the substance and the content portion of the program has always been about defeating the left. I've always thought conservatism is the best way to do it. But what do you do when there isn't conservatism? And there wasn't. Conservatism didn't win the primary, so what do we do? I was accused of betraying conservatism, even though I endorsed no one.
So I spent all this time trying to explain to people who Trump was and trying to help them, the Drive-Bys, anywhere else, trying to figure it out. You're missing this if you think you can take Trump out like you take out your average Republican, you're not gonna be able to do it. Finally on May 4th when Trump won the nomination, I made a little prediction, May 4th of this year.
RUSH ARCHIVE: My instinctive feeling right now is that Trump is gonna win, beat Hillary badly, that it could be landslide proportions. I still don't think people understand why Trump won this. I don't think they understand at all the reason people support Trump. And the deeper people are entrenched in politics, and the more they are accustomed to the templates and the handbooks and the theories and the playbooks, the less they're gonna understand it.
The more they try to plug Donald Trump and his campaign and his personality into the professional politician candidate playbook that they use, the farther and farther from the truth they are going to get. I've tried to help. During the course of this entire campaign, I've gone to great lengths to try to explain to people what it is about Trump, why he has his supporters, why they support him, and what you have to do to separate them from Trump. Basically, you can't. That's the bottom line.
RUSH: And they tried. The Never Trumpers tried for a while. The media didn't give up trying. The Democrats tried. Obama tried. (imitating Obama) "Hey, you know what? He's an official candidate of the KKK." They threw everything they had. They didn't know what to do with somebody who was not a professional politician. Their formulas, their systems, their playbooks don't accommodate for somebody that does not have a political resume, has not lived their lives as a phony politician trying to hide their real lives from everybody. Trump lived his real life, didn't hide it from anybody. It was refreshing. Just one of the many reasons why he has this legion of support.
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