[reasonisfaith]

Limbaugh is an establishment tool. Trump got the nomination in spite of Limbaugh, not because of him.

[Mr. Douglas]

I think Rush is part of the establishment in the sense that he doesn’t want “too much” change, “too fast”. And, truth be told, the more “crazy” politicians there are to complain about, the better for him. So you could say that, for the sake of his show, he WANTS the bad guys to win, but not be seen as their cheeleader.

I get this from what he said when Bill Clinton won in 1992, and I paraphrase the conversation:
Interviewer: So, Rush, now that Clinton’s won, are you through in radio?
Rush: Are you kidding! I’ve got four years of EXCELLENT material to comment on. This will be a huge boost for my show?

i.e. the crazier the political climate, the more Rush has to talk about that is truly interesting.

The problem is that he becomes a bit like the MSM. He NEEDS the crazy stuff to be going on to keep his listenership high. A sane political environment is just not that interesting.

[Wallace T.]

Limbaugh's time is over. Along with Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, and others, time has passed them by. Since the turn of the century, conservative talk radio and magazines like National Review and Human Events have become a controlled opposition to the uniparty. I suspect these talkers would retire and the magazines go entirely on-line or disappear entirely in the case of a Trump victory. Bill Bennett, sort of an elder stateman of the neo-conservative movement, recently retired from talk radio, possibly seeing the future.

Perhaps their lack of enthusiasm for Trump may reflect their hope that under a Hillary Clinton administration, their niche of whining about liberal double standards, political correctness, and hypocrisy about minority racism will remain intact. Their complaints about all these items are valid, but they only serve to allow conservatives to blow off steam and receive affirmation for their beliefs.

The conservative talkers react so predictably to leftist actions that liberal outlets accuse them of receiving "talking points" from some common source. Look at the Colin Kapernick controversy over his refusal to stand for the National Anthem. He is a brainwashed mixed race athlete, whose black father deserted him at birth and who was raised by a white foster family. I suspect he has mental issues and has kept bad company. However, his refusal is a sideshow that should be ignored. Yet the day after his refusal, I listened to Limbaugh, Levin, Michael Savage, and Mark Davis (Dallas area talker) all denounce Kapernick for several minutes. These sorts of rants have kept them popular with their audiences. However, I must wonder if those audiences are getting as disillusioned with their verbal fireworks as full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.

Trump offers the first realistic opportunity to break the post-Reagan political and social order in this country. Limbaugh, Levin, Beck and the others have profited from the current order.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Limbaugh is an establishment tool. Trump got the nomination in spite of Limbaugh, not because of him.”

I don’t think Limbaugh had anything to do with Trump getting the nomination. He usually sits out the nomination.