What Rush Limbaugh Left Behind
He embodied what the right has come to stand for: not a substance, but a style.

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Episode Notes
Rush Limbaugh’s radio show provided a road map that the Republican Party has been following, more or less faithfully, for decades.
Guest: Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right and co-host of This Day in Esoteric Political History.
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, and Elena Schwartz.