10/12/2018 - David Limbaugh Townhall.com
Someone please tell me
what bizarro world Democratic activists inhabit -- those who are grumbling that
Republicans are unscrupulous partisan warriors imposing their agenda by
government coercion and trampling the innocent, passive left in the process.
This is frighteningly
delusional and shockingly divorced from reality.
Without question,
Democrats and their never-Trump supporters on the right would have us believe
that Donald Trump is the very creator of partisan politics, someone who has
gobsmacked the unsuspecting collegial political left into abject impotence.
By their telling,
Barack Obama was an exemplar of bipartisanship, a man who never met a
Republican he wasn't willing to work with. Obama really meant it when he said
he was ushering in a new era of cultural harmony in America centered on our
"common humanity" -- a favorite phrase of the left that conveys no
meaning and serves no purpose other than to cloak a militant call to political
activism with an elegant lilt.
The left knows that
Trump didn't introduce partisan stridency to American politics. It's been with
us since the beginning of the republic. In fact, Obama was one of the most
partisan presidents of the modern era. He demanded the wholesale adoption of
his agenda -- not compromise and conciliation. He is the one who rammed through
Obamacare against the will of the people, the one who responded to pleas for
compromise with "I won," "I'm the president" and
"Elections have consequences."
Obama said: "If
they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." "I don't want the
folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out
of the way so we can clean up the mess." "I need you to go out and
talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them
whether they're independent or whether they are Republican, and I want you to
argue with them and get in their face." "We talk to these folks
because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose a-- to
kick." "If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're
going to punish our enemies, and we're going to reward our friends who stand
with us on issues that are important to us' -- if they don't see that kind of
upsurge in voting in this election -- then I think it's going to be harder. And
that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on Nov.
2."
And Trump is the
authoritarian? Really? How about Obama's endless use of lawless orders, such as
on immigration, to implement an agenda that he couldn't get passed through the
duly elected legislative branch? How about the targeting of conservative groups
by his IRS and overreaching by his Environmental Protection Agency? Trump's
tough rhetoric somehow constitutes an abuse of authority when Obama's actual
usurpations didn't?
And consider what
Hillary Clinton has to say about working with Republicans. This week on CNN,
she said: "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to
destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That's why I believe if we are
fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that's when civility
can start again."
Which major political
party is bullying members of the other one out of restaurants? Which is
refusing to accept the Supreme Court confirmation process and disrupting
congressional proceedings and shrieking outside the Supreme Court like maniacal
demons waging full-scale spiritual warfare?
Which party demands
partisan lockstep among members of a gender or race and ridicules women and
blacks (Kanye West) as sellout know-nothing traitors if they stray from the
party's plantation? Do you ever see people pressured to leave their media jobs
for supporting a liberal cause? Well, a CBS reporter in California resigned
after expressing favorable comments about Brett Kavanaugh. Do you ever see
liberal students punished by conservative university professors (what few there
are) for expressing their political views? Name one Hollywood liberal afraid to
express a political opinion because he or she could lose work. Name one
conservative initiative on any college campus to impose a speech code on
students.
Conservatives have
awakened from their slumber and their naive complacency, realizing that the
cultural and political left, the liberal media and the Democratic Party
apparatus are relentless warriors engaged in an ongoing struggle to impose
their agenda by any means possible, irrespective of the Constitution and rule
of law.
That's a primary reason
President Trump has become so popular among conservatives. He is showing
Republicans that he understands we are in a fight over the future of this
nation and is providing a template for fighting back.
When a recent caller to
my brother's radio show complained that Democrats and liberals are fighting
dirty and that we can't save this nation unless we begin to get right down in
the mud with them, Rush gently corrected him, saying, "We don't need to
fight dirty to win; we just need to fight as fiercely and intensely as they
do."
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