Rush Limbaugh is dead. This was the day that cancer was the good guy. The damage one man can do to a nation can no longer be overestimated. His influence on low information people came to its inevitable climax on January 6th, and the rise of the extremist right wing can be directly connected to his invention of a genre of broadcasting that was copied and expanded on the back of Ronald Reagan's elimination of the Fairness Doctrine. He was the first to cynically take advantage of the new freedom to foment hatred through the lowest common denominators of human behavior.

Where we go from here is toward a struggle for decency, and Rush was one of the greatest obstacles to achieving that end. He is gone but the damage has been done and reproduced a hundred fold. in one way Trump was right to give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as a President Trump would have been impossible without Rush blazing the path.

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