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Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Behind the Bastards

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The Real America and There Can Be No Coexistence

Limbaugh: Limbaugh spent the Obama years repeatedly hammering home the idea that there could not be peaceful coexistence between the right and left in the United States. By 2015, Rush Limbaugh had succeeded in leading a rightward push that finally prepared the Republican party to nominate an obvious fascist, Donald Trump. "I still can't tell you after 30 years what the fuck he believes in, but he knew how to prey on audiences grievances and resentments," says LZ Granderson of his former radio host. 'There's a space for conservatism in society that is not what Rush Limbaugh turned it into'

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