Brain-Dead Conservatism

Rarely had a man pretended to be one of principle and substance  more thoroughly than Rush Limbaugh.  His moralizations on Bill Clinton's marijuana use and sexcapdes were belied by his own opioid abuse and the sexcapades of Orange Blatherskite, which passed without mention.  

       Limbaugh created two maxims, which he, of course, abandoned by supporting Orange Blatherskite. The so-called Limbaugh Rule was that no Republican should speak ill of another Republican . No Republican trashed other Republicans as often or as thoroughly as Orange Blatherskite.  Another of Limbaugh's maxims was Words Mean Things ". Of course,  words mean almost  nothing  to Donald Trump  . Orange Blatherskite is sloppier and more careless  about language than any man alive.

        Rush Limbaugh started out as a comedian,  morphing into a pretender deep thinker.  In reality, his career was only aimed at ratings and the election of Republicans--even one who had only been one for a couple of years and, never having held lower office, was grossly unprepared for the presidency.  He wasn't sensitive enough to realize that Trump was reintroducing all the racists and anti-semites Bill Buckley spent his career exorcising from the conservative movement. 

        Estase has long bemoaned the fact that that none of the commentators  Rush Limbaugh spawned advocates the Conservatism of Edmund Burke or Alexis deToquevillle . You have Vladimir Putin fanboy Tucker Carlson.  You have Ann Coulter,  a racist who wants to forcibly convert the Muslim world to Protestantism  .  And you have Sean Hannity,  a parasite who makes his money repeating the ideas of people who have brains. We can thank Rush for all these illustrious figures.