I actually think he is fully aware of the gamesmanship the Democrats have been playing. I think he has been biding his time and waiting for a point where the public is ready to absorb the truth. The fact that he is starting to express some of these theories about the Deep State, tells me he now believes the storm is getting close.
I totally agree that Rush understands the gamesmanship of the Democrats. That’s his specialty, and he’s good at it. My point is that he never realized that the problem went beyond just Democrat. He never realized that the whole Democrat vs Republican conflict was just a side show controlled by the real power brokers behind the scenes. Rush never understood that the Democrats and Republicans are just mid level players doing the bidding of the real people in charge - the uber rich elites hiding behind the scenes who deliberately stay out of the limelight but who pull the strings of both Republicans and Democrats.
While the Republicans have never been completely controlled by the cabal, they have managed to buy off enough of them over the years to control their agenda, rendering them effectively controlled opposition. If you control both sides, you never loose. That’s what the globalist cabal learned long ago.