2/17/2017 - David Limbaugh Townhall.com
Please don't tell us conservatives that we need to find common ground
with the left during this era of Trump. That would only advance liberals'
cause, because they have no intention of working with President Trump. They are
conducting an all-out war against him and his administration, and appeasement
efforts wouldn't change that.
What the
naive among us need to understand is that the left plays hardball. Liberals
subscribe to an end-justifies-the-means philosophy. They are not fair. They
don't intend to be fair. They believe they are entitled to advance their
America-transforming agenda whether in or out of power, and no amount of
wishful thinking can alter that reality.
They will
say and do practically anything to further their vision for America, and it
doesn't matter if they did the opposite yesterday. A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little conservative minds.
The leftist
machine purports to be opposed to Trump for his allegedly dastardly actions,
but he has barely had time to get started (though he deserves great credit for
what he has done so far). Truth be told, liberals' opposition springs not from
what he's done -- other than the travel ban -- but from who he is and the
threat he represents to their agenda.
They told
us he would be a tyrannical autocrat, and just four weeks into his term, they
claim to have him dead to rights on the charge. Yet Trump has not engaged in
any illegal conduct or committed any lawless overreaches. President Obama, on
the other hand, was habitually lawless, and the left, far from being concerned,
reveled in it. Ends and means.
Understand
this: The left has no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to affect our
election. It is absurd that we are even forced to talk about this. Smear with
innuendo and slander -- that's liberals' MO.
In case you
haven't noticed, these professional malcontents have organized throughout the
nation, with more than a little help from the community organizer in ex-chief,
Barack Obama. They have placed themselves throughout the nation to make
mischief -- not the kind you smile at but the kind designed to bring down a
duly elected president.
With
remarkable foresight and patience, progressives have conspired for decades to
plant themselves in America's important institutions, from the universities to
the halls of government in secure civil service jobs. Many of these people are
working overtime inside and outside government to undermine, scandalize,
sabotage and ultimately bring down the Trump administration in its incipiency.
That tactic is a lot easier than trying to block his desperately needed reform
agenda on the merits.
I strongly
suspect that leftists within our intelligence agencies criminally leaked
classified information to corroborate their claim that Trump colluded with
Russia to interfere with the presidential election. They thought they'd hit pay
dirt with reports that before Trump took office, his national security adviser,
Michael Flynn, had conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak
allegedly about reviewing the recent sanctions Obama had imposed on Russia.
Can you
imagine the salivating? Here's the smoking gun. Flynn talked to Russia. Trump
likes Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia hacked the United States. Trump
won the election. Therefore, Trump colluded with Putin to engineer his election
victory over Hillary Clinton. That is one convoluted syllogism, isn't it?
The left
doesn't care about the truth of the matter. Once liberals obtained what they
considered a colorable morsel of damning evidence, they insisted their fears
about Trump were already vindicated. He was guilty as charged. Except that he
wasn't.
Flynn has
stated that his conversation didn't touch on sanctions. The New York Times, in
its story reporting that Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with
Russian intelligence agents, admitted it had seen no evidence of cooperation or
collusion between the Trump team and the Russians regarding the election. That
little tidbit has not found its way into any headline in the mainstream media.
Liberals
hate Trump, and they hate that they lost the election, and they are not going
to tolerate it. I hope the rest of America understands that.
They are
not only disgracefully pretending they have hard evidence of misconduct leading
directly to Trump but also ignoring the egregious misconduct of the leakers and
the real threat that poses to national security.
Trump got
off to an incredibly impressive start, but liberals have now delivered a blow
to his momentum, and they are poised to finish the job. They are strategically
placed in our cultural institutions and throughout our vast bureaucracy and are
coordinating in every state to stage planned protests that look spontaneous.
Richly funded by George Soros and other like-minded America haters, they are
inspired by the shadow leadership of former President Obama and his activist
organization formed for this very purpose.
I will not
defend misconduct on the part of elected officials and their appointees -- if
it actually occurs -- just because they are Republicans. But I am not going to
sit by silently as the left continues to smear and sabotage this newly inaugurated
president based on shards of facts that don't prove their allegations.
I realize
that nothing we do will stop the left or dampen its single-minded determination
to destroy Trump and preserve Obama's radical agenda, but we can prevent the
left from succeeding if we fight back with equal energy and commitment. But
that will be impossible unless we fully recognize what's going on -- the
tactics of the left and liberals' ruthlessness. We are, in effect, in a war
that we didn't start.So please keep your eyes open and prepare to fight back.
In the
meantime, let's pray that President Trump will not be unduly distracted by
these efforts and can focus on advancing an agenda that will restore economic
growth and shore up America's national security. His news conference on
Thursday gives me great confidence that President Trump fully understands what
the left is doing. He is undeterred and undistracted -- and pressing forward
with his agenda. The left, in turn, probably now understands that it has
unleashed a tiger.
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