“There’s so many different platforms to interact with conservative voices, and there are so many more voices,” said Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist and longtime press aide to Mitt Romney. Jimmy Fallon may host “The Tonight Show,” but he’ll never be Johnny Carson. Limbaugh’s golden microphone is unlikely to command quite the same sway. Trump and his fans.Īll of which means that whichever conservative pundit inherits Mr. Once the enfant terrible of conservatives, El Rushbo sometimes sounded tame when compared with conspiracy sites like Gateway Pundit and Infowars, which engaged in harder-edged rhetoric, to the delight of Donald J. Limbaugh’s live broadcasts on a radio at lunch break.
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Younger MAGA devotees are more likely to download popular podcasts from Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino than try to catch Mr. Limbaugh paving the way, became hugely influential in mainstream Republican politics. Limbaugh’s monopoly on outrage was fractured by a thousand rivals.įox News, which Sean Hannity acknowledged on Wednesday would likely not exist without Mr. About 15 million people a week tuned in for his daily three-hour program.īut Mr.
Limbaugh almost single-handedly created a right-wing mass-media universe - with its kneejerk hatred of Democrats, mocking nicknames and own-the-libs glee - that allowed him to imprint his grievances and goals on the national debate. Limbaugh, who died on Wednesday at 70, was uniquely talented among conservative broadcasters, although his popularity and influence on American politics surely rank him in the highest tier. So who now takes the place of Rush Limbaugh as the media ringmaster of the right?
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