From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark
I could name seventy-five friends and family members who have given more of their emotional lives to Rush Limbaugh’s words than they’ve given to their spawn, their spouses, or their parents. In this sense, he was among the most powerful worship leaders in American history. Media pundits, like Letterman then and now, seem to remain at a loss for words describing what his witness means even though he was, for three decades, the de facto head of the Republican party. There’s a pattern. Reactivity is ratings gold. Trump didn’t start the fire.