LEFT TURN
ONE MAN'S JOURNEY FROM DITTOHEAD TO DEMOCRAT
by Jason Zasky
If you've ever wondered what goes on inside the mind of a Rush Limbaugh fan, let us introduce you
to Jim Derych. For more than a decade Derych was a loyal, self-assured Limbaugh follower—a so-
called dittohead—who uncritically accepted the ideas Rush advocated on his syndicated national
radio program. But by the time George W. Bush took office in 2001, Derych found himself
questioning the wisdom of Rush's ideology, ultimately concluding that Limbaugh's social, economic
and political principles sounded better in theory than they worked in practice. In 2004, Derych
deserted Limbaugh and the Republicans and switched his allegiance to the Democratic Party.
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