Do you have any actual evidence for your claim that Rush Limbaugh has had any effect? From an outside view, he doesn't seem to be much more than a popularizer. I don't think he has any more effect on conservatism than Neil deGrasse Tyson does on science (that is to say, not much at all). There's no shame in being a popularizer, but that just means you aren't an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. You are just taking arcane ideas and presenting them to the masses in a digestible form, not actually, uh, helping advance a movement. Which is sort of my problem with people like Rush: they can be as well-intentioned as you like, but if the ideas they are receiving from on high are crap, they aren't doing the Right a service.
I admitted that he created a successful business, and that does deserve credit. Perhaps I am being too pedantic about whether he broke the liberal media monopoly. In that case, yes, he deserves some respect in that, you are correct. But this is besides my original point.
Looking at Rush's record, he appears to be most (in)famous for coming up with some tasteless jargon like "Gorbasm" or "Caller Abortion." By and large, I think what you've written is the biggest piece of evidence of my original point that Rush doesn't tackle interesting questions or consider any interesting ideas at all and is thus a part of my problem with the conservative movement. I don't see you, the defender of Rush Limbaugh, sharing his wisdom with me. If you were to attack any of my preferred political commentators (say, Curtis Yarvin) on similar grounds, I'd give a list of ideas and observations that make him an interesting thinker (such as "the Cathedral," "Cthulhu always swims left," "Nomos," "Formalism," and the Nazi Wikipedia thought experiment) and explain why they are interesting. Whether or not you thought he was right, he would have at least been thought-provoking. Can you honestly say that about Rush Limbaugh? Or are you just mad that I talked shit about someone you liked?
I'm laying down the gauntlet: either show me what he has or admit that Emperor Limbaugh has no clothes.