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Rush: You Don't Get More Conservative Than Donald J. Trump

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There are two words you hear most from the left and the anti-Trump right when it comes to the political bent of the Trump administration: “populist” and “nationalist.”

Both words are used, generally, to discredit anything conservative that the Trump administration does, arguing that it’s just incidental to the administration’s real agenda, which — in the mind of the mainstream media — is all about appealing to the lowest common denominator of the American populace.

Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh isn’t buying that kind of hype. As he returned from his Christmas break on Thursday, Limbaugh said that you can’t get more conservative than the Trump administration’s first year and that it was time that anti-Trump conservatives and the media started acknowledging that.

Rush began by saying it was something that he felt he needed to address.

“It hasn’t been that big a deal. This whole idea that Trump and Bannon are some sort of massive populist movement, and, therefore, that is bad and it’s nationalistic?” Limbaugh said. “That’s not what has been going on here. Populism has not been what’s going on.

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“This is sour grapes losers using this term to describe it,” Limbaugh continued. “(R)eally, you’d have to look far and wide to find a more conservative administration than this one, and you know when Trump gets in the least trouble is when he does conservative things.”

Rush pointed out that Trump got more support the more conservative his policies got, noting the failure of Obamacare repeal-and-replace versus the legislative success of the tax cut.

And, of course, the media is as unwilling as ever to acknowledge it.

“They are ignoring the real things happening on the ground in terms of the economy that affect real people,” Limbaugh said.

“We all remember CBS News when it went out and actually got visas to go into some Midwestern states where CBS normally doesn’t go. They wanted to find average, ordinary American families and apply the Trump tax cut to their income circumstances to prove that Trump’s tax cut was not gonna cut their taxes. In every instance, CBS found — this family, that family, this family over there — their taxes indeed are going to be cut.”

Limbaugh said that the tax cut proves that the populist tag is completely bogus.

“If there were populism in this tax cut, there would not have been a reduction in corporate rates because populism requires that corporations/big businesses are the enemy,” Limbaugh said.

“Populism is devoted to the idea that the little guy is being set upon by major, big institutions in government and business every day, and the populists come along and they’re gonna defend the little guy against the encroachment of Big Business, mean-spirited employers that don’t pay fair wages — all this kind of stuff — and encroaching government. Well, there isn’t any populism in this tax cut because the biggest tax cut went to corporations, and that’s going to prove beneficial.”

“None of these things are getting any coverage in the media,” Limbaugh concluded. “(T)here is all kinds of substantive stuff happening, much of it not being reported and pretty much all of it, if you had to tag it ideologically, pretty much all of it is far more conservative than populist and certainly far more conservative than moderate or liberal.”

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“Conservative” is a word that’s rarely applied to Trump — even by the right. But if Rush’s message gets traction, that might be about to change.

H/T The Daily Wire

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
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English, Spanish
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American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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