Right. He was one of the principle architects who redesigned the Republican Party (Reply #2)

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Wed Feb 17, 2021, 01:59 PM

Mike 03 (16,616 posts)

2. Right. He was one of the principle architects who redesigned the Republican Party

from an actual political party that was for a set of ideas into an identitarian party that was only opposed to a set of ideas.

Gingrich probably deserves honorable mention here too.

I could see Limbaugh's influence on people I worked with in the mid 90s, and also on their spouses. I worked for a great guy who complained that his wife had become addicted to Limbaugh and that it was changing her. And he was a conservative Catholic, and even he was worried about it.

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24 replies	Author	Time	Post
Rush Limbaugh is more responisble for the polarization of the politics in this nation then anyone [View all]	RDANGELO	Feb 2021	OP
That's why I'm not doing cartwheels	BannonsLiver	Feb 2021	#1
Right. He was one of the principle architects who redesigned the Republican Party	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#2
he ripped apart millions of families, including mine with his lies	cbdo2007	Feb 2021	#3
I would argue that point.	Caliman73	Feb 2021	#4
I think it was Newt...	orwell	Feb 2021	#5
Rush had been a force in AM radio prior to Newt's rise in the House	themaguffin	Feb 2021	#9
Newt was a bomb-throwing backbencher years before Rush	JHB	Feb 2021	#13
Frank Luntz and his language manipulation had major input as well	irisblue	Feb 2021	#17
Yup, he was working for Newt's GOPAC	JHB	Feb 2021	#19
I remember riding in the car with a 20-something who listened to his shit in 1990. I can imagine	kysrsoze	Feb 2021	#6
I agree. However, it was the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine by the FCC in 1987 that allowed	jalan48	Feb 2021	#7
+1	leftstreet	Feb 2021	#10
YES!!!!! More than anything else - THAT!	Grins	Feb 2021	#20
Damn straight!	PghTiny	Feb 2021	#21
Unfortunately, Rupert Murdoch still breathes	Bucky	Feb 2021	#8
Rush mainstreamed hate.	Midnight Writer	Feb 2021	#11
It was a tag-team. Rush in public, Newt in Congress	JHB	Feb 2021	#12
I would listen to as much of his show as I could stomach.... horrible racist stuff horrible	Demovictory9	Feb 2021	#14
He poisoned my mother's mind	Johnny2X2X	Feb 2021	#15
second only to fox news. nt	yaesu	Feb 2021	#16
It will take a while for his infuence to wane	Warpy	Feb 2021	#18
I'm just gonna leave this here...	True Dough	Feb 2021	#22
But what makes only certain people suceptible	North Shore Chicago	Feb 2021	#23
It is interesting.	Turin_C3PO	Feb 2021	#24

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