{"id":137555,"date":"2021-03-04T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137555"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:37:21","slug":"rush-limbaughs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137555","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/rush-limbaugh-is-still-dead\/\">Political scientist James Joyner writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Limbaugh\u2019s schtick ultimately transformed the conservative movement in destructive ways because it showed how lucrative playing to the predudices of an aggrieved base can be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>a business model that depends on keeping people riled up and feeding their belief system will inevitably become mean-spirited and dishonest. Discussions of nuanced differences of emphasis\u2014which is where politics in a democracy should naturally gravitate\u2014aren\u2019t enough to get millions to tune in for three hours a day, every day. No, the opposition must be monsters out to destroy all that the Good People hold dear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political scientist James Joyner writes: Limbaugh\u2019s schtick ultimately transformed the conservative movement in destructive ways because it showed how lucrative playing to the predudices of an aggrieved base can be&#8230; a business model that depends on keeping people riled up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rush-limbaugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137556,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137555\/revisions\/137556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}