I almost didn't read this article because of how dumb the title is. Rush Limbaugh DEFINED conservatism for the last 30 years!!! I suspect that it was some editor who titled the article without reading it. This article goes through what I had felt over the last few years of listening to Rush but didn't understand at the time. Rush had Steve Bannon on his show in 2019 and Rush at that time repeated and completely agreed with the whole populist nationalism agenda. This political realignment has been a long time coming, but the theft and coverup of the last election has made it impossible to go back to the way it used to be. It's a long article, but I think that it gets it right.
I was not going to post the article, but just read it to see what someone I disagree with thought about this. I agree that the title does no service to the article.