Mixed feelings. Used to listen to him in high school and even remember catching an episode or two of his TV show back when it aired. LIked that he wasn't PC, and his show was certainly entertaining, didn't like all the water he carried for W Bush and the Iraq war. I suppose I can understand it from the standpoint of not counter-signaling against your friends in the presence of your enemies, but to someone like me who was sympathetic to populist arguments coming from the left back when they still signaled in that direction, Rush-style conservatism didn't offer me much at the time.
That said, I appreciate that he respected his audience enough to publicly support Trump to the extent he did. It's more than I can say of the "conservatives" who show nothing but open contempt for their constituents.
Mixed feelings. Used to listen to him in high school and even remember catching an episode or two of his TV show back when it aired. LIked that he wasn't PC, and his show was certainly entertaining, didn't like all the water he carried for W Bush and the Iraq war. I suppose I can understand it from the standpoint of not counter-signaling against your friends in the presence of your enemies, but to someone like me who was sympathetic to populist arguments coming from the left back when they still signaled in that direction, Rush-style conservatism didn't offer me much at the time.
That said, I appreciate that he respected his audience enough to publicly support Trump to the extent he did. It's more than I can say of the "conservatives" who show nothing but open contempt for their constituents.