Opinion | Jackson Katz: 'Limbaugh’s unparalleled popularity owes a great deal to his willingness to say things — especially misogynist, racist and homophobic things — that more respectable Republicans would never utter in public.' - NBCNewsTHINK
stemming either from an anal cyst or an old knee injury.
They are also both members of the one percent who inhabit worlds of almost unimaginable wealth and privilege, living in luxury dwellings in New York City and mansions in south Florida and flying around the world on private jets. They bothThey both repeatedly make misogynistic comments and refuse to apologize for them. They both have had multiple wives. And they are both fake populists who have used aggressive rhetoric and bullying to claw their way to cultural and political influence.
They are both fake populists who have used aggressive rhetoric and bullying to claw their way to cultural and political influence. But Trump’s climb was made easier, arguably, by the path already blazed by the pioneering Limbaugh. For almost three decades, Limbaugh fashioned himself a champion of the people, a man with the guts to defend average folks from an ongoing assault waged by liberal politicians and cultural elites.
Perhaps the most concise way to explain these radically different perceptions is that while the left sees many of Limbaugh’s pronouncements as
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