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I can't engage with someone who doesn't know how to argue.

I think entire argument went something like this: Me: I don't see any evidence that Rush Limbaugh has any interesting ideas. Therefore, he's not an asset to conservatism. LF: Yes he is! He brings in 20 million people. Me: A popularizer is only as good as his ideas. If his ideas are bad, then...

First, projection much? This entire attitude of "educate yourself" is the sort of arrogance I get enough of on the Left. I don't need it from a right-winger. And your comment on how I should "learn to understand how other people think" is a bit hypocritical coming from the guy who couldn't...

I read his Wikipedia article and a few of his transcripts. That didn't entice me, but Wikipedia is biased against conservatives like him. So I asked you, one of his fans, for some of his good ideas. You basically told me to go watch all 20+ years of his show. Is that not a sign that the emperor...

No, it's unreasonable for me to have to trawl through literal decades worth of recordings. This is the sort of "educate yourself" type nonsense I'd expect from a close-minded social justice warrior on Twitter. I told @LordsFire over and over that being popular isn't going to make Limbaugh...

Well, seeing how I'm not going to watch thousands of hours of his content (because that's a fucking unreasonable), how I can't find anything he's written that isn't just random news articles, and how my only sources of information are what I can find online (which doesn't paint a good picture of...

You didn't engage my point. Which is why you lost the debate. Understand, my contention from the beginning was that Limbaugh isn't useful for conservatism because he doesn't cover the sort of topics that would be helpful to a right-wing movement. Instead, he's a popularizer for Zombie Reaganism...

Emperor Limbaugh has no clothes! Thank you for admitting that.

Do you have any actual evidence for your claim that Rush Limbaugh has had any effect? From an outside view, he doesn't seem to be much more than a popularizer. I don't think he has any more effect on conservatism than Neil deGrasse Tyson does on science (that is to say, not much at all). There's...

Let's back up for a bit. First, he didn't break the Left's monopoly on media. Ronald Reagan did that when he repealed the Fairness Doctrine. Limbaugh was just an entrepreneur who happened upon a niche in the market that he was able to exploit, much to his profit. Second, Rush is either a...

"Advance the Conservative cause." Again: the victories of the Left over the past 30+ years shows that advancing the conservative cause doesn't actually equate to anything I would want. I'm sure Limbaugh and I would agree with each other on morality, given how he's a conservative Christian. But...

Could you please enlighten me to the nuances of Rush Limbaugh's thought? What does he actually believe that would make him such an interesting thinker in your view? Also, was @Curved_Sw0rd wrong to say Limbaugh wasn't an intellectual?

From what I can tell, Rush Limbaugh is someone who isn't an ideas guy and is just parroting ideas that smarter, better funded people say. I would agree to both of these things. Modern conservative/classical liberal guy who is self-employed. Looking at his history, he was a firebrand who took...

Well, if he's not the intellectual, then what are the sources of his ideas? And, perhaps more importantly, who's paying him to promote those ideas?

Is he? What does he actually say? Let's watch. Well, he hasn't changed substantially in thirty-two years. I can see why he's considered "very conservative" now. He's very much in favor of all the things that Republicans thirty-two years ago were in favor of. He describes the NeverTrumpers as...

Imagine if he used his platform to explore why the Left keeps winning and try to inject mainstream conservatism with new ideas that might give them new life. I mean, Tucker Carlson sort of does this. Most popular Cable News Show in history, and he's trying to promote paleoconservatism, of all...

Single most important figure for the Right since Ronald Reagan, huh? Well, if that's the case, then you've made my case even stronger. Because he hasn't been able to stop this.

But you're putting your money into "slowing down the inevitable" and not any into gaining the advantage. How are you going to gain the advantage?

They are already Leftist in practice. Did you not see the Bostock case? Does Rush Limbaugh tackle any interesting questions or consider any interesting ideas, or does he simply run defense for the Republican Party? To my knowledge, his entire career has been the latter. Meaning that all he's...

Well, it wouldn't be inevitable if a) the people running the system completely exhausted themselves in the process of centralizing power or b) there was a mature right-wing movement ready to take on the Left. But I don't see either of these coming to fruition. What I do know is that your support...