What John Batchelor is, is an establishment Republican. Tony Snow was from the same mold. Hugh Hewitt is another. These are the foot soldiers of Bush Republicanism.
The outsiders are, and have always been, the conservative wing. Goldwater. Reagan. And Trump.
Hewitt is definitely no good. I found it especially disgusting when he joined the Left in trashing Nicholas Sandman and his classmates from Covington, Ky. after they were harassed by black and American Indian racists. Hewitt & Co. were especially outraged when Sandman responded to the harassers by simply smiling at them.