“Wasn’t Levin a NeverTrumper?”
Extremely. And he was quite vile about it.
I got the feeling Rush was, too, but watched his mouth for the sake of his audience and ratings.
I could be wrong, but I always felt that the most rabid of them were dealing with green-eyed monster issues when it came to Trump. Women get a bad rap when it comes to jealousy. But these guys went off the rails.
Rush wasn’t a Never Trumper. He had other candidates he preferred (as did I) but once Trump was the nominee, Rush was very supportive and felt that Clinton must be defeated. To me, the mark of a Never Trumper was that they threatened to switch their allegiance to Hillary. Rush never came close to that. I think the term has lost its meaning with some.
Extremely. And he was quite vile about it.
I got the feeling Rush was, too, but watched his mouth for the sake of his audience and ratings.
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Absolutely.
In spite of the BS he spews now like “I understand Donald Trump more than anyone else alive...” or “I was the first one who knew that Donald Trump could win!” I CLEARLY remember the smug, contemptuous way he treated Trump during the primaries - gleefully reading every anti-Trump article he could get his hands on (which were, of course, endless) and cutting off pro-Trump callers because there was always a far more important Lifelock commercial waiting in the wings just in case one got through.
“I got the feeling Rush was, too, but watched his mouth for the sake of his audience and ratings.”
Exactly right.
In Q4 2015, Rush was pushing Rubio and/or Cruz.
Rush’s use of “Trumpists” at the time was an epithet.
I wondered who had gotten to him. Was he threatened by the establishment? Then I realized, he was running Rubio and Cruz ads and airtime isn’t free.
Then Rush said sometime in 2017, “I was always with Trump”. Almost fell out of my chair.
Not sure if you remember the Cruz / Trump battles out here when we Trump supporters were called every name in the book?
Trumpee
Trumpys
Trumpholes
Trumpaloompa
Trumpsters
Trumpanzees
Trumpenistas
Trumpers
Trumptards
Trump Cult
Trump Diehards
The Trumpkin Proletariat
Trumpites
Trumpkins
Trumpettes
Trumpists (thanks Rush Limbaugh)
Turmpeteers
Trumpbots
Trumpnutters
Strumpets
Branch Trumpidians
Trumpophiles
Trumplicans