Rush Limbaugh, Ditto Nation, and Identity Politics
3 min readFeb 18, 2021
I still remember the conversation as if it was yesterday. I was sitting with my graduate advisor talking about my thesis. We were in the outside seating area of the student commons, and we both had half-drunk cold cups of coffee, and half-eaten sandwiches. Suddenly our conversation was intruded by the AM band from the radio of a groundskeeper. On it was Rush Limbaugh.