“But Trump could not have been elected without the new media that Rush helped to create and is a large part of.”
Rush is a talk show host, about the oldest media other than newspapers.
What new media are you giving him credit for “pioneering”? Is this like Al Gore inventing the internet?
Did I miss some massive Rush presence on twitter? Facebook? YouTube?
I will accept at face value that you have not understood the revolution in communication that occurred in the last 30 years.
Before Rush, there was the Orwellian named “fairness doctrine” that effectively squelched political discourse on the radio. When the Reagan administration did away with the fairness doctrine, the left attempted to do political talk shows. They bombed. Rush Limbaugh pioneered his format of entertaining and politically educating talk radio in the late 1980’s. He became an enourmous success. His show spawned dozens of others. Conservatives came to virtually own talk radio. It was one of the very few media for getting conservative ideas out to the public.
In 1994, there was the Republican revolution, where a Republican Senate and a Republican House were elected for the first time in roughly 40 years.
The House Republican bestowed an honorary title on Rush “The Majority Maker”.
Rush Limbaugh has been one of the major parts of Conservative media in the United States for close to 30 years.