The thing is that Limbaugh and people like him very much incited much of the current enmity and for the basest of reasons, because they found profit in it . Also he might have been a private citizen but he was also a public figure and so needed to be less inflammatory and well...honest.
https://thehill.com/homenews/533236-...s-capitol?rl=1
“Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people — Americans who have gotten tired of being ignored and lied about and smeared as racists by these very Democrats in the media and the popular culture,” Limbaugh said.
“Americans who have gotten fed up with having elections stolen from them by the Democrats, including the White House. Now they think two more Senate seats have been stolen, and they thought they were going to be stolen even before the election.”
The thing that he omitted is that the reason people thought that the election stolen was he and others had been feeding them a steady stream of lies for months/years.
I'm not calling the man a monster but I hardly feel that objective fact is speaking ill of the dead either.