Irish Examiner view: Rush Limbaugh’s legacy is a call to arms

One of the architects of the post-truth age built an epoch-changing radio career on racist, sexist, and homophobic views

Rush Limbaugh introduces US president Donald Trump at the start of a campaign rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in November 2018. Limbaugh, the talk radio host who became the voice of American conservatism, has died. Picture: Jeff Roberson/AP

Rush Limbaugh, one of the architects of the post-truth age, has died aged 70. A toxic provocateur and propagandist, he was a fevered facilitator of the Trump presidency. 

Unencumbered by the constraints of decency or veracity he built an epoch-changing radio career on racist, sexist, and homophobic views.