How Rush Limbaugh Explains Donald Trump's Unpopularity

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By Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic


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Confronted with the most flagrantly unqualified presidential candidate in living memory, a boorish, undisciplined, transparently polarizing nominee, a man reviled by principled movement conservatives whose explicit reasoning Limbaugh well knows, the talk-radio host tells his audience that a left-wing activist historian is responsible for Trump’s low poll numbers, because he poisoned the minds of America’s youth.

A major ideological movement long treated Limbaugh as one of its leading intellectuals. This cycle, that movement got exactly the result that it should have expected."

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/how-rush-limbaugh-explains-donald-trumps-unpopulaity/487772/

[tblue37]

1. You repeated the first 2 sentences of your second paragraph as your third paragraph.

Instead you could have included a different paragraph as your third, and then even a fourth paragraph, still without violating the 4-paragraph rule for avoiding copyright infringement.

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3. I corrected the repeat. Thanks. nt

[Aerows]

2. You reap what you sow. n/t

[Jerry442]

4. So, has anyone ever seen this Howard Zinn character and Lex Luthor at the same time?

Just sayin'.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. So...it's Howard Zinn's fault?

Students in the public school system should BE so lucky!
SMH at Pigboy's execrable cluelessness.

[DemFromPittsburgh]

6. I really don't think they universally read Zinn in all public schools

Maybe in college. I suspect they keep him out of the public schools.

[TeamPooka]

7. I think you could give Ken Burns as much credit as Zinn in this area.

You know, for kids.

[BuelahWitch]

8. Limbaugh was instrumental in concocting this Frankenstein

Don't whine Rush, you "built this."

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9. Yep, Don the Con is, in the flesh,

the very personification of all of the bile spewing from Rush's pie-hole all of these years. He has done more to pollute the American spirit than anyone as far as I am concerned.

[Ex Lurker]

10. Even Limbaugh is tired of his own schtick. He's just mailing it in these days nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Jeez, I expected it to be someone alive, at least

Trump is unpopular thanks to a historian who wrote his stuff years ago? I guess Trump really is a weak loser, then. He'll be blaming Abraham Lincoln next.

[Monk06]

12. I was wondering where Trump got his famous hand gesture. Then I remembered

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