Rush was successful because he *read the books* & knew how to distill them even for those listeners who didn't. He revered WFB. Retconning him as the antonym of bookish conservatives is silly. @michaelbd isn't the one in this argument trying to use Rush to bash books & writers. https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1362417452819300352 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd
Before Limbaugh, "conservatism" was confined to academia, Firing Line and National Review. He made academic conservatism popular in a way that nobody except Reagan had done. In part, he was succeeding because GHWBush was not a true believer in Buckleyan conservatism.
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