There’s no way to improve upon many of the eulogies to Rush penned by his fans and friends, especially the one by Mark Steyn. Instead, I’ll mention an item that will strike many as trivial and irrelevant.
Decades before the terms “deplorables,” “Deep-State” and “Fake News Media” entered common conservative usage, Rush Limbaugh was already championing the former against the two latter and at a time such a position brought him no audience advantage whatsoever. To wit:
Rush Limbaugh proudly stood shoulder to shoulder with Elian Gonzalez’s “deplorable” Miami family (and “deplorable” Cuban-Americans in general) when most Americans (and even many conservatives) were deploring “Miami Cubans” and championing the Castro-Clinton kidnapping.