Glenn Beck has made no secret of the fact that he is not a fan of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, nor has he hidden his confusion about how anyone who considers themselves to be a member of the Tea Party could ever support Trump’s effort.
On his radio program today, Beck began to flesh out a theory that he thinks can explain what is really going on with Trump’s campaign, promising that once he can prove it, he will lay it all out on his chalkboard. As it stands now, Beck’s theory is that Trump’s campaign is really an effort by “big business” to discredit and destroy the Tea Party once and for all.
As Beck sees it, his listening audience contains more Tea Party members than that of any other right-wing radio host and yet Trump consistently fares poorly when Beck’s network takes its monthly presidential poll. If his audience doesn’t support Trump and his audience contains lots of Tea Party members, then Trump’s support cannot be coming from the Tea Party, Beck reasons. Of course, actual scientific polls show Trump leading among Tea Party supporters.
“The Tea Party is eating its own,” Beck said. “If I’m a guy who is a Republican establishment guy or I’m a liberal, I want to destroy the Tea Party. But if I’m a businessman, I want to destroy it as well. The reason why the GOP isn’t suffering with their goals on campaign funds is because big business just wants business to go on. They know how to play the game. Look, Donald Trump as said, ‘I give to everybody.” He knows how to play the game. He doesn’t know how to play the game with a libertarian, small government guy who says, ‘There’s no game for you to play here, Donald, and we stand by the Constitution.’ So you can’t buy that person or bully that person out of their house any more.”
“It makes sense that he doesn’t want the Tea Party,” Beck continued. “So what’s as good as getting the presidency of the United States? Discrediting and destroying a movement that stands for true principles. Small government and maximum freedom, stand for those who want to disrupt the system that makes everybody rich.”
“I think is is really important that you stand up,” he warned, “and you separate yourself as a tea partier and say, ‘That is not us, that is not us.'”
