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(9,090 posts)establishment GOP at least back in 2008 with the tea party and breitbart and paul manafort got limbaugh to hold his support for mccain until he picked palin. the russians used limbaugh to push palin on mccain and the rove/bush GOP establishment though he cost them the election. after that the Russians kept using him - for creating 'climategate' in 2009 and pushing debt ceiling default in 2011 and then heavy duty radicalization of republicans to election of limbaugh's neighbor and golf partner trump
they became the party of limbaugh and now they're headless and grieving and afraid of the gun nuts. they have depended heavily on parroting rw radio to get elected and still do and the dittoheads/teabags/trumpers/gun nuts call in to make sure the blowhards don't start wavering on gun control
maybe now that central control is gone maybe enough GOP can join in but as long idiots like cruz etc can filibuster there's little hope
the best way is for the Dem Party or an allied org to announce it's going to use the MIT prototype to digitize RW radio present and in retrospect and the cons will start abandoning ship