The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transforma
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Table of contents :
The colossus rises --
With talent on loan from God --
Media that sounds like us --
Necessity, mother of invention --
The new Republican king --
Bill Clinton, talk radio innovator --
Stopping legislation in its tracks --
The political earthquake --
Everything changes --
The Democrats wake up --
Talk radio takes over television-and tries to impeach a president --
Money propels talk radio to the right --
Talk radio in the 2000s: big changes for the medium and for politics --
The parties go their own ways --
Disgruntled but still loyal - unless you're a moderate --
The titans of talk, 1-bipartisanship, 0 --
Never a Republican puppet --
The conservative media empire --
I hope he fails --
The relationship sours --
Hunting RINOs --
Trying (and failing) to govern --
Turning the power structure upside down --
The president that talk radio made --
The big picture.