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Moderates and centrists have gotten a bad name over the past few decades, and that’s part of the checkered legacy of Rush Limbaugh.

The late, great radio host — who helped to shape conservatism for three decades and beyond (he famously inspired Charlie Kirk) —disdained political moderates. He saw moderates and centrists as people who lack the will to stand by principles. “There is no book in the library entitled ”Great Moderates in American History," Limbaugh was fond of saying.

In 2011, he argued against moderates in a radio monologue after Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, published a piece prom

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