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Rush Limbaugh's Double-Edged Legacy

R.I.P

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Charlie Sykes
Feb 18, 2021
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When the news broke yesterday that Rush Limbaugh had died, I had a flashback to something I wrote back in May: “Rush Limbaugh’s Legacy Is Complete.”

“But the thing here is when you get to Trump and his conspiracy theories,” Rush Limbaugh explained to his listeners on Wednesday, “he does it in a really clever way. And t…

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