“”””Let’s not forget Rush Limbaugh and his influence.””””
I’ll never forget first hearing his show in 1988, regular Americans around America had come to think of themselves as alone, isolated, outside of the culture and society, and then Rush came along and we saw that we were still plentiful and everywhere, and that most Americans were still normal.
I was at a very liberal college in the early 1990s. I wasn’t a progressive kook by any means, but reflexively thought Limbaugh was a blowhard.
Then I finally listened to his show, almost felt dirty doing it, and found myself agreeing with him way too many times.
Never been the same since!
Turned my folks onto him also...it turned my parents very conservative to the consternation of my siblings!! :D