Rush Limbaugh's legacy of ashes

[marmar]

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Rush Limbaugh’s legacy of ashes
By Jeffrey C. Billman @jeffreybillman


(Detroit Metro Times) Before Rush Limbaugh's body was cold, Republican officials and thought leaders tripped over themselves to eulogize "an icon, patriot, and [an] American hero" and "a giant of the conservative movement."

One after another, they lamented his passing last Wednesday like he was John Stuart Mill rather than a college dropout who got rich convincing mediocre white men that "commie-libs" and "feminazis" and affirmative action were holding them down. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to order his state's flags flown at half-staff to honor Limbaugh — "an absolute legend" and "friend of mine" — in defiance of the state's flag protocol. Donald Trump emerged from his Mar-a-Lago humiliation hole, making the right-wing cable rounds to praise the race-baiting, misogynistic radio provocateur — whom he'd ostentatiously awarded a Presidential Medal of Honor during the 2020 State of the Union address — and renew his complaints about the "stolen" election.

These tributes acknowledged a simple reality: His influence might have waned over the last few years, but no one in a generation had shaped the Republican Party like Rush.

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This is Limbaugh's legacy. Not just because he amplified Trump's election-fraud bullshit and compared the Jan. 6 rioters to the 1776 revolutionaries. But because he molded a tribal party bound by grievance, convinced that inconvenient facts are Liberal Media misinformation, and so anchored to a demagogue that the second-highest-ranking House Republican won't admit that Joe Biden didn't steal the election. ..............(more)

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[Ilsa]

1. It would be amusing that Limbough effectively contributed

in no small degree to the sundering of the GOP, if it had not been so deadly and destructive to the rest of the country.

There is little to celebrate in his pathetically sad life. He could have used his tainted wealth to contribute positively to true American ideals, but instead he used it to further his vile influence.