By the way, it's a shtick that works - Rush Limbaugh and his thousands of imitators on hate radio all pretended and still pretend that they were some kind of outsiders, throwing Molotov cocktails at "the system", LOL.

That they were the true inheritors of the 60s, only just done for good purposes.

Thing is, they represent the real power behind the system and that power wants the last shreds of a safety net cut to zero, bring back things like debtor prisons and cut the middle class to nil.

But plenty of people buy into the kayfabe. Even after Rush was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom by the sitting (failed) president, I bet most of his listeners still thought of him as an "outsider".