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Necrovoter 11 points ago +11 / -0

You are on a site for Trump supporters. A lot of those supporters (almost certainly the vast majority) listened to Rush. Rush was a supporter of Trump and educator on the perils of liberalism. Much of the public sentiment against the corrupt Democrat system was brought about by the information from conservative sources. Rush Limbaugh was by far the strongest and one of the earliest of those sources of information. If Rush hadn't been there, the support for the MAGA movement would have been far weaker.

That's why. Educate yourself.

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ShilltonSmith -3 points ago +3 / -6

While what you say is true, it also requires people to totally ignore the fact that Rush was around much longer than MAGA and during all of that time supported what Trump would frame as “the swamp”.

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Necrovoter 1 point ago +3 / -2

Which alternative candidates would YOU have had Rush support? There was smelly slimy swamp and some patches of swamp that were slightly above ground. Most of the candidates were like choosing between Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Griffin. Even if they had been anti-swamp, how would they have withstood their enemies? How hard did President Trump have to fight against the swamp? How many average non swamp politicians could have stood up to that? Lincoln's history indicated he could have.

How many of the people Trump supported for election turned out to be swamp creatures anyways?
Trump wasn't naive. You can't play the 17th of Diamonds in Poker when it doesn't exist in the first place. That is what you are alluding that Rush should have done. If Trump thought he could have successfully bucked the entire system he wouldn't have agreed to stay within the GOP and would have run as an independent. He didn't.
Learn from what President Trump did.

Please list your non-swamp alternative choices that had a good chance of winning. I am all ears to learn from the wisdom you have that you think Rush did not have.

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ShilltonSmith -4 points ago +1 / -5

You’re only talking about Trump, while Rush had been a conservative broadcaster for decades.

He supported Republicans who are now seen as being part of the swamp/deep state, it doesn’t sit right that he have years advancing people like the Bush family then is suddenly a right hand to Trump and fighting off all these people he spent his life helping.

Him saying what people thought while riding Trumps coattails doesn’t change his past.