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Remembering Rush Limbaugh, Five Years to the Day After His Passing

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Remembering Rush Limbaugh, Five Years to the Day After His Passing

Five years after his death from lung cancer, conservatives on Tuesday remembered the greatest influencer of them all.

Rush Limbaugh, the radio host and author who built a political movement and a media empire from behind his golden microphone died Feb. 17, 2021, at the age of 70.

And the reverberations of his life and career are still being felt.

Remembering Rush: Five Years On https://t.co/xYml8sQfaV — Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) February 17, 2026

Remembering Rush: Five Years On https://t.co/xYml8sQfaV

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) February 17, 2026

“He broke wide open – the media ‘dam’ that suppressed the voices and values of almost half the country,” longtime Limbaugh producer James Golden, known professionally as “Bo Snerdley,” wrote in a tribute on Tuesday.

“The ‘silent majority’ through Rush Limbaugh, found its voice.”

That’s putting it mildly.

From the closing months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, to the election of the first Republican House of Representatives in almost a half a century during the midterms of 1994, to the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Limbaugh was in the vanguard of conservative politics in the United States, leading a cultural revolution that continues to this day.

During his State of the Union address in 2020, President Donald........

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