Why I’ll miss listening to the bigoted and toxic Rush Limbaugh

Limbaugh was a shortcut to a worldview of many Donald Trump supporters, writes Andrew Buncombe

Rush Limbaugh was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020 (Getty)

A couple of days after Rush Limbaugh died, I was driving out of Seattle when I spotted some people draping a banner from a footbridge.

“RIP Rush,” it said. “We will miss you.”

Strangely, I found myself thinking the same, though no doubt for very different reasons to the people on the bridge.