Posted on 02/26/2021 4:00:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
In a trail of observations that began with Trump's campaign in 2015 and peaked during the last year of his life, the late Rush Limbaugh, as he was in and out of the studio battling cancer, was on a path to the previously unthinkable. He was ready to let go of the ideology he'd spent three decades promoting — Reaganite conservatism — and replace it with right-wing populism. Specifically, the right-wing populism of the just-defeated Republican president. Why?
Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "mayor of Realville," was constantly trying to see around corners. What he saw was a political movement that offered more staying power and strength against the left than the ideological one he'd been associated with since 1988. That calculus wasn't based on election outcomes. It was informed by the first Republican voter realignment to occur since Reagan's election. Here is how Limbaugh described it in the days after Trump's Republican convention speech on the White House South Lawn last year:
Now, what emerged was the new Trump Republican Party. And it's a fascinating change. It's the party of the little guy. It's the party of working America, not politicians, not elitist think-tank denizens. It is literally the party of working Americans.
Limbaugh never missed the chance to rib what might be called Cruise Ship Conservatism. As an entertainer with a massive following, he found it ridiculous that other media personalities would cultivate the small-time celebrity role. But "elitist think-tank denizens" was a stand-in for the country club set, too. With a small-town upbringing and blue-collar audience, Limbaugh relished the idea of his being "the party of the little guy."
Limbaugh realized that right-wing populism was more appealing than conservatism to the little guy.
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Is it even 10% of the workforce?
NO.
This article is pure BS.
Rush was frustrated with the GOPe, but that wasn't new by any means.
Exactly.
The premise of this article is an opinion that is not proved.
This is just another attempt to try to split the Pro American Patriots into factious, smaller groups.
The enemy is the State — regardless of the -ist label (communist, socialist, progressivist) — currently ruled by the DemComs.
That falls in line with the never-Trumpers.
Rather than regard him as an America first patriot, they brand him as a neo-Nazi-type of Nationalist, white-supremacist.
You are either for building a strong, free America and protecting her, or you support the Communist State.
Trump opposed the State, and that is why the Statist Party did everything they could to destroy him.
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