I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. You apparently discount their years of friendship, years of playing golf together and, discount Rush’s own statements after Trump won the primary race to arrive at your opinion. That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion.
Limbaugh’s opinions on what he perceived could be Trump’s weaknesses with the electorate were his honest concerns. You could not blame him considering the Republican history with candidates like Dole, McCain, Romney, and Bush. Donald Trump was so outside the mainstream of traditional Republican politics he wondered aloud how the traditional Republican electorate would react to Trump.
That said, he also said he thought Trump could re-ignite the Reagan coalition whereby Trump could bring back to the party Democrats that would never vote for the previously named Republicans.
And, Trump did just that. In a big way. He shattered the Blue Wall Hellery and the dems were counting on to stop Trump. Just as Reagan did.
My problem with your post is you blast Levin for being anti-Trump in 2016, and claim Rush got it right from the start. No, he didn’t. Go back to the show threads in March 2016. Rush being at least impartial to Trump is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. He would laugh at pro-Trump callers. He would cut them off. He would report bad news on Trump, and not report the good news. He would pimp for Cruz. Rush had become an absolute idiot in 2016 and a waste of talent. He wasn’t as bad as Levin but he was bad.