Introduction

 

Since 2008, callers into the Rush Limbaugh radio program have been expressing a common despair about why the Republicans did not fight to protect individual freedoms from the socialist transformation of America, when the moment of battle with socialist tyranny arrived.

 

This book explains why the Republican Party failed to defend freedom. Within the American political tradition of special interest politics, the Republican Party was never designed to be a defender of freedom, even though many citizens wrongly thought that it would protect their liberties.

 

This book explains the consequences of the Republican abdication, primarily on the labor market and economic growth, which suffered from the loss of individual freedom and private property rights.

 

An early explanation, before the election of 2012, offered to callers by Limbaugh for the Republican abdication, is that the Republicans were scared of being called racists, if they opposed Obama.

 

The caller below is representative of this expression of despair about why the Republicans were failing to fight against the socialists, with Limbaugh’s response about racism.

 

April 26, 2011. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

 

CALLER: I want to tell you up front I'm on a cell phone, so we have that out of the way. But I wanted to try to explain why I think that Donald Trump, who I think is just a horrible candidate for the Republicans, is catching on with so many Republicans. It's because he talks like he's got some balls. And I'm begging, I'm begging for somebody in the Republican Party to step forward that's got some balls. You know what I'm saying?

 

RUSH: I do think he has a skewed view of conservatism. I do. I think somebody's given him a bit of a misread on the conservative base. So I'll grant you that. But it is a problem. Look, I'm not being serious. I was joking. I know what you mean when you say people lack some fortitude. I don't know what the fear is. I mean I've tried to figure it out. I've considered still a fear of race, any criticism of Obama's gonna result in being called racist. That fear I think is always gonna be there. I think fear of the Republican hierarchy. There is this notion that you wait 'til it's your turn.

 

Over a period of several years, Limbaugh’s explanation of the Republican behavior began to change to incorporate a type of political symbiosis between the Republicans and the Democrats.

 

June 14, 2013. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT.

 

RUSH:  Kansas City.  Betty, hi.  Welcome to the EIB Network.  Great to have you here.  Hello.

 

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  I was reading the website, and I think that someone said this yesterday, but I was driving down the road, and you were saying we're just missing something on the amnesty bill, why in the world would Republicans support something that will cause their party to lose in the future. And I was just thinking, well, they'll just become the Democrats -- now, I'm probably being reactionary, but I'm thinking, they'll probably just become the Democrats that they are already are.  I am so disappointed in my party.  I expect to disagree with the Democrat Party.  But I disagree with my party.  I'm a Republican, or at least I thought I was.

 

RUSH: The bottom line is that the Republican Party is embarrassed by its own base.  The Republican Party is ashamed of its base.  They accept the Democrat caricature of the Republican base.  Southern, hayseed hicks, pro-lifers, pickup-truck-driving, gun-rack-in-the-back-window people, chewing tobacco and going to church and talking about God all the time. 

 

But they really see 'em as a bunch of zealots when it comes to abortion.  And all these guys I'm talking about have wives who nag 'em about it, don't want any part of the pro-life crowd, embarrassed to be with them at the conventions.  So the theory goes that this is a way to get rid of the Republican base.  Supporting amnesty and having the Democrats win big-time elections after this is a way for the party to finally get rid of its base.  Now, you say, "Well, replace it with what?" 

 

In the most recent period, Limbaugh has sharpened his analysis of Republican Party to include an explanation of why Republicans cooperate with Democrats, when cooperation could possibly result in the death of the Republican Party.

 

January 14, 2014. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT.

 

RUSH: Look at every issue that comes up. They give the Democrats all or a part of what they want trying to buy peace and love and affection, and it just never works.  So extending unemployment benefits... Here's Obama's economic policy: Extending federal unemployment benefits, raising the federal minimum wage, and amnesty.  That's Obama's big economic push.  That's what we're told is going to be his focus in the State of the Union show.

 

January 24, 2014. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT.

 

RUSH: So, I mean, upshot here is that you take a look at any national poll, immigration reform, amnesty, it's nowhere near the top when people are asked to name the most important issues they think are facing the country. No reason to do this. And yet the Republican leadership is as desirous and as action oriented, if not more so, than the Democrat majority is in pushing for amnesty. Yet it's the law of the land. But the House Republican leadership wants to go for it. Now, we know why. Chamber of Commerce and moneyed donors. Donors to mainstream Republicans are saying they want amnesty, they need the new cheap labor, they can't keep going like this. They need it and they'll do anything they can to get it. If it takes amnesty, fine. They don't care about the cultural impact or the rest of it; they just need the labor. And these people depend on these donors for reelection, and so that explains it. Yet it's the law of the land.

 

Limbaugh, himself, is now becoming increasingly despondent about the Republican Party.

 

January 31, 2014. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT.

 

RUSH: Now, let me close the loop on immigration. We sit here, it doesn't make any sense. It's the end of the Republican Party. The polling data all shows it. The people that would be granted amnesty are not gonna vote Republican because of this or anything else. I mean, not without a lot of work. And the Republican Party being so publicly for amnesty is not going to change how these people vote. I don't know if the Republicans think that's going to happen. I do know that the prevailing thought or theory is really baked in total defensiveness.

 

Why are the Republicans willing to commit suicide? Because that's what it is.

 

The fact is we haven't seen the Republican Party act much like the opposition party yet. Whenever some individual Republicans do pop up in opposition, they get cut down by other Republicans. I'm gonna tell you, folks, sometimes I end up angrier at Republicans and what they're saying than I get at Democrats these days.

 

Limbaugh’s most recent explanation is getting closer to the truth about the Republican Party. To understand why the Republicans failed to defend freedom, the Republicans need to be seen as representing a special interest group, operating within the framework of the checks and balances special interest political system created by the Founding Federalists.

 

The constitutional arrangement was designed to check and balance special interests, not check and balance socialism versus freedom. The insurmountable flaw in Madison’s special interest constitutional arrangement is that there is no special interest that defends the public interest of individual freedom.

 

Callers into the Limbaugh program just assumed that the public interest of freedom would be protected when the time to battle tyranny arrived, and have discovered, too late, that the Republicans would abdicate.

 

As a special interest political party, the Republicans are like a subordinate junior partner to the multiple Democrat special interest groups. The Democrats have the gays, the women, the environmentalists, the blacks, the latinos, all of whom benefit from the advancement of the socialist agenda.

 

In other words, the Democrats have a full house of special interests, but the Republicans have only one of a kind: Big Business.

 

The explanation of the Republican behavior involves their promotion of the financial interests of Big Business that operates on a global scale. For short, it can be called the Republican special interest of corporate globalism.

 

The Republicans abdicated their constitutional responsibility to defend freedom in favor of promoting their special interests, which meant “bipartisanship” with the...