Sometimes people who come across as ‘paragons of virtue’ are simply timid people who never truly plunged in and lived life. When you plunge in, you make mistakes, you fall down sometimes and have to get up again.
If all you do is pussyfoot around the edges, always careful, always looking over your shoulder - you may appear to be some kind of paragon; but you’ll never be great or do great things.
If you sit on your arse and spout virtue no one sees mistakes you make because you never do anything. Get dirty, work, risk, and fall, then get up and get back in to the fight and people never doing anything point at your mistakes. You are very right. We don’t need paragons. We need patriots, a Wall, and DJT no matter a few human character issues. Trump is so much better than those opposing him, I believe Rush was just amplifying the obvious to those a little slow on the up take.
Will one keep on trying to learn a better way? One wallowing in pugnaciousness will eventually find himself unsuited for a better age.