I like Bongino just fine. I like Chris Plante, he’s funny and smart. Rush certainly did not call out the RINOs in a way they deserved. He did a great job on democrats, but missed the more insidious threat within the Republican party.
Reagan’s wins were so vital AND he won not only against the Democrats but against the GOPE.
One of RL’s liabilities, for lack of a better term, was that he never stopped celebrating vanquishing the ‘Ford/Dole/Rockefeller wing of the GOP.’ The 70s crowd were his go-to criticism well into the 90s when he could have been taking on the RINOs as you suggest.