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Footballguy
Ignoring the politics of it (which I know is basically impossible), there was a time when even I would have said that Rush was an really good entertainer. Boring, non-entertaining people don't reach the levels he has in his life. I do think he came across as being more angry the last decade and I do think he means most all of the things he says (outside of the obvious schtick stuff) which probably is part of the reason he did come across angry.
If you blame media/entertainers for the state of our politics, he would have to go high on the list because he definitely made this an "us vs. them" over the years.
I don't know that that part is true. Like many Republicans, he has sacrificed a lot of his core beliefs (or, at least, what I thought were his core beliefs) to support Trump.