Michael Savage is what happens when a liberal idealist gets sick of trying to do good and decides to do what it takes to rake in cash and live the good life in his old age.
The guy spent basically his whole adult life until his 40s writing poetry, books on alternative medicine, and living on some pacific islands studying plants and then came back poor as dirt and realized that if idiots like Rush Limbaugh can make millions and millions of dollars spewing nonsense for hours everyday there’s no reason he shouldn’t get in on the action and make some money as well. So he did and does. (He also worked for Timothy Leary as a young adult.)
He’s an entertainer in the entertainment business who probably cannot believe that people take a lot of what he says as anything other then entertainment. He’s great at his job but if you take him seriously he probably gets as big a kick out of you as anyone else