I Feel Shame Over the Political Beliefs of My Youth

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I started listening to conservative talk radio when I was about nine years old and moved from the backseat to the front beside my mom. For the next eight years of being a passenger in her car, I must have listened to at very least two hours — often more — of talk radio each day. These were shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and occasionally Ann…