Rush has been hitting the Never Trump crowd daily. Good on him for doing it. Kristol, Will, Hayes ...and all of the other snooty think tankers are bitter and angry and will never stop their crap. Pitiful.
He seems to have cast his lot with the uniparty and wants to be friends with people who probably despise him anyway, rather than the base of the Trump voting coalition.
In other words, he sees the voters as people to be manipulated, not served. There are now far too few people in politics with any concept of serving their voters as well as the wider electorate. Many seem to want to serve special interests or offshore powers, perhaps that pays well but we need to keep working for a cleaner, more responsible political model on our side and hope that the left will do the same on their side (where a guy like Sanders who at least has some affinity to his base is equally despised by the establishment).
If we could get back to that (it was probably never ideally like that but closer in the past) then civility would probably return because there would be a sincerity to the debates that is currently lacking, wherein many points of view are clearly serving some special interest and not any large segment of the voting public.