вЂњRush Limbaugh helped create todayвЂ™s polarized America by normalizing racism, bigotry, misogyny and mockery,вЂќ tweeted the gun safety advocate Shannon Watts. Senator Ted Cruz called him вЂњa tireless voice for freedom and the conservative movementвЂќ.Д«ut not every elegy was as fond. Former vice-president Mike Pence said вЂњhe made conservatism funвЂќ. The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, hailed Limbaugh as a вЂњgenerational media trailblazerвЂќ. вЂњWhether loved him or not, they respected him.вЂќ He was a вЂњfantastic manвЂќ and a вЂњfantastic talentвЂќ, the former president said. Limbaugh with Trump at a rally in Missouri in November 2018. Trump, who awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the countryвЂ™s highest civilian honor, midway through a State of the Union address a year ago, called into Fox on Wednesday to praise Limbaugh and mark his death. Limbaugh may have created something much bigger by contributing to a style of politics that, three decades after the Rush Limbaugh show was first syndicated, produced the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. The formula was wildly successful, and pointed the way for media organizations such as Fox News to satisfy the demand for opinion content that seemed devilishly honest if you identified with it вЂ“ and hate speech if you did not. ItвЂ™s all these people with all these wacky social programs to help some silly, self-proclaimed bunch of victims.вЂќ вЂњLimbaugh offers him scapegoats,вЂќ Ivins wrote. In a 1995 Mother Jones cover story, the late columnist Molly Ivins singled Limbaugh out as a bully and called him a вЂњmajor carrierвЂќ of вЂњplain old nastiness in our political discussionвЂќ, describing the typical Limbaugh listener as a young white male without a college degree but with a firm sense that the world had done him wrong. 02:43 Rush Limbaugh, controversial conservative radio personality, dead at 70 вЂ“ video report

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