9/1/25 - Mark Levin's Take on America’s Challenges

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including this issue of flag burning in the First Amendment, and I will return to that. You're in the right place at the right time. I also want to talk about our ambassador to France, Charles Jared Kushner, who did something fabulous, and the Quisling, Emmanuel Macron, who would be more comfortable in Vichy, France, Got upset about it. We want to cover that too. And of course, we have Ablego Garcia, where we've probably spent millions of dollars trying to remove this MS-13 wife-beating human trafficking reprobate who's been here illegally since 2012 because the lower courts are filled. with the rogue, left-wing Democrat lawyers dressed up as judges. It took nothing for him to come to the United States, and you see what it takes to actually remove somebody like this. It's a problem. But before we do that, my wife, Julie, and I did something we rarely do. We went to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center.

Now that it's in the good hands of President Trump and Rick Rennell, among others. And we saw a play there that was absolutely fantastic. And I wanted to bring your attention to it. It's called Parade. Parade. And it only runs until, I think, the first week in September. And, you know, I'm not big on plays and that sort of thing. But this was really fantastic. Fantastic. And if you live in or around the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, I want to encourage you to go see this play. I don't get anything out of this. I'm just telling you how great it was. A fantastic play. I'm not going to tell you about it. You can Google it yourselves, but the cast is great. The singing was beautiful. And by the way, the restaurant there at the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center was fantastic. I'm telling you all this, because all you're hearing are attacks on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center and how they're trying to control it and this, that, and the other. This play, parade, I don't think this play would ever, ever, have seen the light of day. under the previous management. I don't. I don't. So again, the play is called Parade. The crew is magnificent. The singing is magnificent. If you want to go dine there before you see the play, I strongly recommend it. It's some of the best food we've had. I'm telling you the truth. Just terrific. Well, I'll give you a little taste of this. It's about a man named Leo Frank from Brooklyn, who marries a woman from a small town in Georgia. And he moves to Georgia. And he is... sort of a manager for a small company there that makes, among other things, pencils. And a young girl who did a little bit of work there, who did a little bit of work there, she's murdered.

is set up by the DA. By the DA. Leo Frank is Jewish. His wife is Jewish. A very heroic and gutsy governor. I'm not going to get into the details. Who takes steps that destroy his political career, the DA. gets elected eventually governor, but this is a really, really good play, and it's executed beautifully. I think you're going to like it. So again, the movie is called Parade. It's at the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center. Again, the restaurant there is fantastic. Fantastic. You might want to check it out. A date night, a day matinee, and so forth. As I said, we haven't been to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center in years and years and years. It's just too much schlock there. This was an outstanding. Outstanding play parade. Okay. Donald Trump. Let's do cut one. We'll set this up in the Oval Office today. the president about burning the American flag. Cut one, go. What the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to write. I hope they use that language, by the way, did that? Insight to riot. And you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don't get 10 years, you don't get one month. You get one year in jail. and it goes on your record and you will see flag burning stopping immediately just like when i signed the statute and monument act 10 years in jail have you heard any of our beautiful monuments everybody left town they were gone never had a problem after that by the way the play runs through september 7th okay so what happened president signs the executive order and immediately The media jump into action. Immediately, the never-Trumpers jump into action. Immediately, those who claim to be civil libertarians and constitutionalists jump into action. They could not possibly have read the executive order when they were commenting. They could not possibly have read it. But it didn't matter. They wanted to be the first. And they wanted to attack. And they did. Let's go over to one of the worst of the worst, one of the media entrails, started by Dan Abrams. It's really a radical left wing and very sophomoric site called Mediocreite, aka Mediaite. And so they go online and they have different folks who are attacking what the president did. They're shocked. Shocked of what he's doing. You find it unbelievably, incredibly outrageous. And they're posting and they're posting and they're posting. And again, I'm reading the executive order. And it's clear to me they didn't read it. Even some so-called conservative radio hosts.

Because that's what the enemy does. It's what the media enemy do. And they're caught like fools. And they'll move on to the next thing. And the next thing and the next thing. And that's why I spent my opening statement Sunday night on Life, Liberty, and Levine on Fox, reading to you from Judge Federal District Court Judge Royce Lambert's decision. about what John Bolton did in his revelation of classified information in his book without getting complete approval by the government. He was damning of John Bolton, damning, which is why even today, 6.15 p.m. Eastern time today, nobody's quoting that opinion. Friend or foe. Friend or foe. Cable TV. or radio. Nobody's quoting that opinion. I quoted it to you Friday, here behind this microphone, and on my Sunday show. Because there was a finding by a federal judge. That what John Bolton did and the information he released did, in fact, endanger our national security. Then I read to you Friday right here, as well as on my Fox Sunday show. What the Biden administration did a year later, which was outrageous in one sentence without explanation, dismissing it all. You all would be doing prison time for 20 years. That's not been quoted on TV anywhere. Or, to best of my knowledge, on radio anywhere, but by me. Here we have a decision by a federal judge. Here we have a document executed, filed by the Biden administration with the federal court, and nobody has read either of them out loud, not even cited them. So I did. And even today, they haven't.

And most of these people haven't read the president's executive order that he's signed today, while they're trashing the hell out of them. The president's executive order doesn't create a new law, doesn't create a new offense. Let me read from it. So you'll be the best informed. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on First Amendment protections, the court has never held that American flag desecration conducted any matter that is likely to incite imminent lawless action, or that is inaction amounting to fighting words or is constitutionally protected. Now, the case they're talking about is Texas v. Johnson. That was issued in 1989. That's just 36 years ago. And the vote was five to four. Five to four, it split the court. Rehnquist wrote the dissenting opinion. Brennan, a radical left-wing justice, wrote the majority opinion, but Scalia joined him. And yet Sandra Day O'Connor joined Renquist. As to John Paul Stevens, a liberal.

He said, my administration will act to restore respect and sanctity to the American flag and prosecute those who incite violence or otherwise violate our laws while desecrating this symbol of our country. If you violate existing laws by burning the flag, if you incite violence by burning the flag, just as if you incite violence by words, you will be punished under existing law. It goes on. The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our nation's criminal and civil laws against acts of American flag desecration existing laws that violate applicable content-neutral laws. So if it's content-neutral, nothing happens. Nothing. while causing harm unrelated to expression consistent with the First Amendment. This may include but is not limited to violent crimes, hate crimes. So if you burn a flag, let's say on the grounds of a church or a synagogue or the NAACP or something like that, that could be a hate crime. You know, legal discrimination against American citizens or other violations of American civil rights and crimes against property. You grab my flag and burn it. That's a crime against my property. As well as conspiracies and attempts to violate aiding and abetting others to violate such laws, in cases with the Department of Justice or another executive department or agency, determines that an instance of American flag desecration may violate an applicable state or local law, an applicable state or local law, such as open burning restrictions, like environmental laws. disorderly conduct laws like you jump into the middle of a bridge or a street and you light the flag on fire and you're waving it or destruction of property laws again you take a flag off a public building and you burn it the agency shall refer the matter to the appropriate state or local authority for potential action and if you're here if you're here on a student visa If you're here with a resident permit, something of that sort, and you're burning the American flag, well, you may face deportation. But the First Amendment, excuse me, you're here on a privilege and as a guest. Only in recent months. have somehow the media and judges conferred rights on non-citizens that they've never had before. So this is not new ground. What the president is saying, however, is, and what is new, is that we will prosecute where we can under existing law. He's not violating any Supreme Court ruling. I'll be right back.

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At least five so-called journalists are what I call journal terrorists who work with Hamas, who work with the terrorists over the course of the last few months, have been killed. But the media do not discuss at length their connections to Hamas. So you see, if you're a so-called journalist and you work with Hamas or the terrorists, if you do that, I guess you get... special immunity but that's not how it works now the same so-called media types if i were to ask them without them researching how many journalists real journalists have actually been assassinated by Vladimir Putin they couldn't give you the number how many real journalists have actually been killed by hamas they couldn't give you the number How many journalists have actually been killed who were in Hong Kong and so forth that were killed by communist China? They can't give you the number. You get my point? And still we have Jew haters and anti-Semites screaming at the top of their lungs with IQs and the negatives accusing Israel of genocide. Why? Because the UN did. Why? Because they changed the entire definition of famine. And despite the fact that these reports are reviewed and unraveled and demonstrated to be false, they're still waived around by not just Democrats, two or three Republicans. And they're used in the media, and not just in left-wing media on some conservative media platforms.

So I want to put a salute out there to Charles Jared Kushner. And I will get back to the Supreme Court in a moment. To Charles Jared Kushner. Who's our ambassador to France. France has a huge problem with Islamists. They're open borders. have had real consequences. The chief rabbi there said last year that Jews need to leave. And in 10 years, there may be no Jews left in France. The Islamists have overtaken many parts of Europe. I hope you're watching the posts that I put up. Finland. Britain. Austria, Australia, Canada. Might as well be Europe. But I want to salute Charles Jared Kushner. He published a letter and he sent this letter to Emmanuel Macron, who's a quizzling. He would be more comfortable in Vichy, France. Dear Mr. Emmanuel Macron, on the 81st anniversary of the Allied Liberation of Paris. which ended the deportation of Jews from French soil. I write out of deep concern over the dramatic rise of anti-Semitism in France and the lack of sufficient action by your government to confront it. Anti-Semitism has long scarred French life, but it has exploded since Hamas's barbarica saw on October 7, 2023. Since then, Pro-Hamas extremists and radical activists have waged a campaign of intimidation and violence across Europe. In France, not a day passes without Jews assaulted in the street, synagogues or schools defaced, or Jewish-owned businesses vandalized. Your own interior ministry has reported anti-Semitic incidents even at preschools. Public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state, emboldened extremists, fuel violence, and endangered Jewish life in France. In today's world, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, plain and simple. President Trump and I have Jewish children and share Jewish grandchildren. I know how he feels about anti-Semitism, as to all Americans. He directed the Education Department to enforce civil rights protections for Jewish students on university campuses, making clear that harassment and discrimination won't be tolerated. He expanded resources for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security to safeguard synagogues in Jewish schools. He ordered strict vetting to bar entry for foreigners, espousing anti-Semitic hatred and revoked visas for foreign agitators. He oversaw the deportation of Hamas sympathizers and cut funding to organizations promoting anti-Semitic incitement. And by crippling Iran's nuclear weapons program, he struck directly at the world's leading state sponsor of anti-Semitism and terror and saved millions of lives. These measures prove that anti-Semitism can be fought effectively when leaders have the will to act.

Today, many French Jews fear that history will repeat itself in Europe. Parents encourage their children to emigrate. Survey show most French citizens believe another Holocaust could happen in Europe. That's French citizens, not just Jews. Nearly half of French youth report never having heard of the Holocaust at all. What are children being taught in French schools if such ignorance persists? Mr. President, I urge you to act decisively, enforce hate crime laws without exception, ensure the safety of Jewish schools, synagogues, and businesses, prosecute offenders to the fullest extent, and abandon steps that give legitimacy to Hamas and its allies. As U.S. Ambassador to France, I stand ready to work with you and will lead us across French society. to forge a serious plan that addresses the roots of anti-Semitism and defeats it. Mr. Jared Kushner's U.S. ambassador to France. What a powerful, important, what will be a historic letter. And guts. What a gutsy letter. And what's the response? From Reuters. France summoned the American ambassador Charles Jared Kushner, after he wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, alleging France had failed to do enough to stem anti-Semitic violence. A French foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, Jared Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France, the U.S. and Israel. In the letter, I don't need to comment on what's in the letter, I just read the whole thing to you. Jared Kushner's letter follows another sent to Emmanuel Macron by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week, in which he accused Emmanuel Macron of contributing to anti-Semitism by calling for international recognition of a Palestinian state. Emmanuel Macron has emerged as one of the more forceful critics of Benjamin Netanyahu's prosecution of the war in Gaza. particularly with regard to Palestinian civilian casualties, while Trump has steadfastly supported the Israeli leader. Emmanuel Macron has publicly criticized anti-Semitism as antithetical to French values. And I can go on. Look, the fact is Emmanuel Macron is acquiesling. The fact in Europe, these left-of-center parties and these left parties are now relying more and more, just as they are in the Democrat Party, on Islamists. I don't mean Muslims. I mean Islamists. Islamists who support Hamas, who support Iran, who support Hezbollah. Like the fake mag in our own country. Like a big chunk of the Democrat Party. Terrorists. Flat-out terrorists. The same kind of terrorists who blew up our twin towers. Who took out a plane in the middle of Pennsylvania. Who hit our Pentagon. Those terrorists. Those terrorists.

We have a weak underbelly within our own country. The enemy within. The enemy within. Cowards. Now, one of these bastards come on this show, by the way. Yes. Takes guts to speak out today, ladies and gentlemen. That's why I love you in this audience, because you do. You're not intimidated. You know right from wrong. You know good from evil. You know who these people are. The fakes, the frauds, the phonies. It's incredible. And they will tell you, they will mimic the United Nations. They will mimic France. They will mimic Hamas. And they will tell you that there's genocide in Gaza and it's being committed by the Jews. There is not genocide in Gaza. It is a war-torn area. There's no question that there are a certain percentage of people who suffer. There's no question about that. But there is not genocide. If there's genocide, why the hell are the Israelis sending 18 wheelers in there by the thousands? Why are we supporting the transport of food into Gaza and working with the Israelis shoulder to shoulder to do it? Where's France? Where's Britain? Where are they? They're nowhere. Nowhere. That's why President Trump backs Israel. Now the Jew haters are out of the closet. We know who they are. And the Jew haters hate people who aren't Jewish, too. Faithful Christians, they hate you too. And they hate this country while they pretend. to be purists in support of it. No, they hate it. We're responsible for ever wars, they say. We're responsible for the evil that has turned on us in other countries. They hate us while they claim to be pure than you and me. They're not. They're in bed with the Islamists. They sound like the Islamists. They're in bed with the Marxists. They admire Zohran Mamdani. They admire Bernie Sanders. They admire Hamas. I challenge all broadcast networks, all of them, to run the photographs, the video of October 7. The video, all 45 minutes of it. Put it on TV. Show the world. Show the world. But they won't, because they're too gruesome. I challenge all broadcast networks to go into Gaza.

With your video cameras. And show us the mass famine starvation that's taking place. Show it! Show it! No more phony photos on the front page of the New York Times. Or the daily mirror. Show us. But they won't. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. Conservatives in every stage of life are faced with ever increasing challenges to our values in the classroom on campus. and at work. Prepare yourself with a solid understanding of our nation's founding principles in today's most important public policy debates. The Heritage Foundation created the Heritage Academy to help ensure that every conservative from any walk of life has the foundation and the tools needed to defend their values. This eight-week online fellowship includes policy lectures on the most pressing issues facing Americans today. Live Q&As to learn from top experts in the conservative movement and opportunities to connect with other conservatives around the... country. Without conservatives grounded in truth and informed on the state of our nation, America, as we know, it cannot survive. So please go to heritage.org slash Levin, heritage.org slash L-E-V-I-N and learn more about the Heritage Academy and how you can apply. That's heritage.org slash Levin, heritage.org, slash L-E-V-I-N, paid for by the Heritage Foundation.

You're listening to The Best of the Mark Levin show. Happy Labor Day. All right. Geez, I don't know if I'll get to the Supreme Court Justice as this. I'm not trying to tag you along here. It might be next hour. We'll see. All right. I'm not going to have time to get into this, but you're going to want to hear it, I think, which is Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Concerned about the... How much time do I have, Rich? Well, let me get started here. The Constipated News Network, CNN. They write, in Donald Trump's long-running feud with federal judges, you see, that's how low- IQ reporters write about stuff. The president has found some support in an unlikely place, the nation's highest court. Excuse me, cholera. A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts articulated in terms that at times sound similar to Trump's own rhetoric. has crept into a series of opinions this summer from the Supreme Court's conservative justices as they juggle a flood of emergency cases dealing with Trump's second term. That's not how a real reporter covering the court should write things, that they sound like Trump and so forth and so on. Brett Kavanaugh sounds like Brett Kavanaugh. Gorset sounds like Gorsuch. They're giving their honest opinions. Quote, lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court's decisions, but they are never free to defy them, Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished in an opinion last week tied to the court's decision to allow Trump to cancel nearly 800 million in research grants. The rebuke, which was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and others obviously, flipped the narrative that it is Trump who has pushed legal boundaries with this flurry of executive orders. You see what I mean? Who wrote this damn thing? John Fritzie, or Fritz, F-R-I-T-Z-E. He's got the IQ of a lobster. This is now the third time and matter of weeks, this court has interceded in a case squarely controlled by one of its presidents, wrote Gorsuch, who was Trump's first nominated a high court. Brett Kavanaugh was his second. They're admonishing the lower courts. You have to follow our decisions. Now, if a party didn't follow a court's decision, then all hell would break, Luke, right? I'll be right back. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. Pure Talk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to puretalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening, and thank you so much for this sponsorship, Pure Talk. He's here. He's here. Now, broadcasting them from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-district building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. This is the best of Mark Levin. Happy Labor Day. You know, before I get back to the Supreme Court.

A lot of people are upset, conservatives, presidents talking about taking a 10% stake in Intel. And the reason is to try and get the chip manufacturing again back up and running a passive 10% given our... Given how we've lost that industry pretty much in this country and the competition with Communist China. So he's focused on this very, very much. And they compare it to Bernie Sanders and so where Donald Trump has no Bernie Sanders. He's no Zohran Mamdani. It's not the same thing. I mean, Donald Trump is planning a massive sale of stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Notice I'm the only one bringing this up, Mr. Producer. These are government-owned mortgage giants. He's the first president since these entities were created. He's basically going to sell big chunks of them to the private sector. To you, if you want to buy some. To you. Up to 15% of these two companies. to raise potentially $30 billion or more. So I'm just making this point. And he's met with J.P. Morgan's Jamie Diamond, Goldman Sachs, David Solomon. He's met with Bank of America, Brian Moynihan. So this is Fannie and Freddie. That's what they call them. Like the little kids, which they're not, of course. These are massive assets owned by the federal government, owned by the federal government. And so he seeks to privatize up to 15% of them. Now, there's no way in hell that a single Democrat, let alone most Republicans would propose that. So Donald Trump is not Bernie Sanders. Donald Trump is not a socialist. He's not a communist. He's not trying to take over the private sector. I think in this case, I certainly haven't discussed this with him. He's looking at Intel. Look, you don't even have to agree with it. It's okay by me. I think it's a close call. But the point is he's saying, okay, look, we've got to get this chip industry up and running again. That's his attitude. That's his focus. Because he's looking at Communist China. He's looking at AI. He's looking at decades where we've regressed. That's his motivation. Not to take over companies. Not to take over companies. How do I know? Because I'm watching it, just like you. And so... That's what he's doing. And so that's a good thing. And Fannie and Freddie are instrumental in making 30-year mortgage as possible. Now you watch, when he pursues that, how he comes under attack. Look at this. He's going to take these...

These government companies, and he's going to sell them off to the private sector, to the billionaires and the millionaires. Nothing he does will be acceptable to these people, to the media. Nothing. Of course, taking a 10% stake in Intel is controversial. I get it. But when you really look at the big picture, and this is what I want you to do. What's the Tennessee Valley Authority? Does anybody know? Obviously people who benefit from the Tennessee Valley Authority, they know what it's all about. But most people who don't don't know. The TVA. What is it? Tennessee Valley... Authority stands for the, well, TVA stands for Tennessee Valley Authority. It's a federally owned electric utility corporation that was established in 1933. It provides electricity and, you know, seeks to improve the living standards of residents up and down the Tennessee River Valley. And that involves several states. Now, it operates without any tax funding. So it's self-sufficient. It gets its revenue from selling energy to people in these communities. That is a government-owned corporation. That's what it is. The president isn't creating government-owned corporations. He's not taking over corporations. He's not taking over intel. He's not Bernie Sanders. TVA is the largest public power company in the United States. It's called public because it's owned by the United States government. I'm not saying that we should get rid of it. Please, don't misunderstand. It's the largest government-owned electricity utility, period. Trump is not proposing. government-created, government-owned industries and so forth and so on. He's not. So just calm down out there, Wall Street Journal editorial page. Put out your editorial next about Donald Trump, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, what he's proposing there, to sell 15% of these government-owned mortgage companies. And then watch how he takes hits for that. The federal government owns about 25 to 28% of the landmass of the United States. They own like 80, 85% in Nevada and Utah. You go through the state, Montana, Wyoming, goes on and on. President wants to sell off big chunks of that. Does that sound like a socialist, Mr. producer? He said, we don't even know what we have. We're not even taking care of it. We should sell off. chunks of government-run land to bring down the price of housing. I'm waiting for the editorial on that one. So again, he's not Bernie Sanders. And people shouldn't pretend that he is. People shouldn't pretend that he is. Now, I want to get back to the Supreme Court. Justice is Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and they're not the only ones.

They're not the only one. Other conservatives, as the CNN piece says, Justice Harsh this year, Samuel Alito in March, accused a federal job in another case involving a Trump policy is committing an act of judicial hubris and self-aggrandizement of its jurisdiction. Folks, we all knew this. We talked about it before a single justice opened their mouth or wrote a single word. Utterly out of control. But that's what the media want. Why? Because they're all Democrats. They're all leftists. That's why. That's why the Supreme Court has been consistently siding with Trump on the emergency docket for months. The Supreme Court is upholding the Constitution, ladies and gentlemen, as the president has. Including in high-profile cases dealing with immigration, spending the leadership of independent agencies. And Trump has won even in cases where there are serious arguments that his administration defied a lower court, said Steve Vladick, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law School. Well, maybe he shouldn't be if he's just another radical Democrat lawyer. In abiding dissent in the research grant decision on Thursday, liberal justice, Cantaja Ketanji Brown Jackson described the result as Calvin Ball jurisprudence in reference to the popular Calvin and Hobbs comic. Notice she's not criticizing, excuse me, notice the journalist so-called, the writer is not criticizing her. Calvin Ball is only one rule. There are no fixed rules, Jackson wrote. We seem to have two, that one, and this administration always wins. Now, see, that's a cheap shot at their colleagues. Cheapshot. You cannot trust CNN ever for anything. They promote Hamas. They promote Democrats down the line. They promote these radical activist judges. CNN is a dead network barely airing with really effectively non-existent ratings. At least at MSLSD, they changed the name to MS now. Now I say now. MS now. MS now. Of course, they didn't change their hosts and their guests, so it's still a dead end. Still a dead end. But back to Jackson. Business and politics. Calvin Ball, Biden's DEI pick. That's right. She's a DEI pick. Accuses fellow SCOTUS justices of being in the bag for Trump, writes Chris Donaldson. Supreme Court Justice Kontanji Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked a popular comic strip in an angry dissent, accusing her colleagues of being in the bag for President Trump, just like CNN did. See, they all have the same mindset. The left winger who was appointed by disgraced former President Biden to fulfill his pledge to put a black woman on the SCOTUS has repeatedly shown that she lacks the intellect and temperament for the job with her emotional antics. I agree with that. Not that another example was needed, but Jackson served it up anyway, describing the court's latest overruling of an activist lower court judge who blocked the ending of DEI-based grants of the National Institute of Health as Calvin Ball.

And what appears to be a first for a sitting scotist justice in a former ruling, the fictitious game from the Calvin and Hobbs' comic strip has been put into play, an argument that would seem to be more appropriate for social media, a form where Jackson's emotional and uninformed tirades belong, not on the bench of the nation's highest court. Who wrote this? Pretty good. Chris Donaldson. This is Calvin Ball Prudence with a twist. Calvin Ball has only one rule. There are no fixed rules we seem to have two. That one, and this administration always wins, she wrote. Jackson was venting over her frustration with the court's, quote-unquote, lawmaking on the shadowed docket accusing the majority of having bent over backwards to accommodate Trump. Trump is the elected president of the United States, ladies and gentlemen, these lower court judges. Honestly, they're nobodies, except they have enormous power. They were plucked from obscurity. That's it. And they were rushed through by the Democrats. They were rushed through when they controlled the Senate. There's ACLU types, ethnic organizations, where they have lawyers, these types of people. The ruling Thursday, the SCOTIS cited five to four with the administration, allowing it to proceed cancellation of $783 million in NIH research grants tied to DEI initiatives, including LGBTQ and other hot-button issues. Chief Justice John Roberts cited with the KBG in court's other two Democrat left-wing women. He's schizophrenic. Some days he comes into the court. He wants to be Hollywood John, loved by the New York Slimes. The families are close with one of the main reprobates at the New York Times, Thomas Friedman. Jack suggested that lifesaving biomedical research was at stake, a talking point frequently used by the political left to defend their cherished DEI programs. She wrote, so unfortunately, the newest entry in the court's quest to make way for the executive branch as real consequences for the law and the public. It's completely logical that Jackson would oppose any rolling back of DEI since she herself, he writes, is a beneficiary of the racially discriminatory policies. I've never understood, and I was the first to point this out, so I'll continue. why it's considered racist to point out if somebody is a DEI appointee or not. If you cherish DEI, if you promote DEI, if you celebrate people be appointing under DEI, then why can't you mention that somebody is appointed as a DEI appointee? What is the problem with that? You can't on the one hand exclude merit as the exclusive test, and then on the other hand, when somebody points it out, attack them. Biden ruled anyone but an African-American female from the Supreme Court spot that was opened up by the retirement of Bill Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer in 2022. Constitutional law expert Fox News contributor Professor Jonathan Turley was critical of Jackson's frequent forays in the political rhetoric in a recent column. He said the histrionic and hyperbolic rhetoric has increased in Jackson's opinions.

which at times portray her colleagues as abandoning not just the Constitution, but democracy itself. Well, Turley is right. The author of this piece is right. And therefore, and of course, I am right too. We'll be right back. When was the last time you bragged about your wireless company? Like, did you know my wireless company gave away a thousand American flags to deserving vets and forgave $10 million in veteran debt? Did you know my wireless company raised almost half a million dollars to help prevent veteran suicide? In other words, when your wireless company is Pure Talk, there's a whole lot to brag about. You can even brag about the coverage you get with Pure Talk, a 5G network that is insanely fast, dependable, and secure. And you can definitely brag about how much money you save with Pure Talk. Unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Just 25 bucks a month, saving the average family over $1,000 a year. It's time to switch to my favorite wireless company, Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Levine and save an additional 50% of your first month. Again, PureTalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N, make the switch today. Pure Talk, wireless worth bragging about.

This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy Labor Day. Now back to the best of me. Hello, New York. You're with me, New York? You're with me? You're with me? Probably the people who should be listening aren't, but there are a lot of people who tune in by accident. Then they start listening. I get this wherever I go, Mr. Producer. I get this wherever I go. I get this wherever I go. And I said, I listened for a week. I listened to two weeks. I said, I like this guy. I like what he has to say. Well, here we are over at the New York Post. Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges. What do you think about that? Oh, this guy. You know, it's funny in my book on power, I talk about, you know, tyranny can be imposed on people, but in democracies, typically, they vote for it. because they want something for free or they want to believe. They want to believe. And so the fact that crime is going to go through the roof, the fact that police are going to have their hands cuffed rather than the criminal's hands cuffed, the fact that productive people are going to try to get the hell out of there if they can, the fact that you're going to have release signs on commercial properties from one end of the city to the other. The fact that your population may not drop heavily because people who want the best welfare benefits and illegal aliens are all going to flock to New York City. The fact that you're going to have to go outside the city to actually purchase groceries, none of that is thought through. I want, what's wrong with socialists? Oh, he speaks so well. I like this guy.

No, by the time it's done. A lot of people who will have voted for him, New York, will have left. Because a lot of them are upper middle class or higher, white, overly educated, morons. I want to dig into this a little bit more deeply, I shall return. When was the last time you bragged about your wireless company? Like, did you know my wireless company gave away a thousand American flags to deserving vets and forgave $10 million in veteran debt? Did you know my wireless company raised almost half a million dollars to help prevent veteran suicide? In other words, when your wireless company is Pure Talk, there's a whole lot to brag about. You can even brag about the coverage you get with Pure Talk, a 5G network that is insanely fast, dependable, and secure. And you can definitely brag about how much money you save with Pure Talk. Unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Just $25 a month, saving the average family over $1,000 a year. It's time to switch to my favorite wireless company, Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Levine and save an additional 50% of your first month. Again, puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N, make the switch today. Pure Talk, wireless worth bragging about.

This is the best of Mark Levin. Happy Labor Day. I want to read something to you as a foundation to this Zohran Mamdani story in the New York Post. Read it to you out of my book on Power. Authoritarian democracies become more authoritarian and less democratic. I made the argument that negative power exists in both open and closed societies, the former experiencing soft negative power. And it is the ascendancy today in most democracies, including in America. It takes different forms and moves at different paces. The order of things, nature, morality, values, beliefs, etc., precedes government, exceeds the earthly limits of government and exists in perpetuity in spirit, if not reality, unlike any government. Indeed, all governments come and go over the course of human history. Listen carefully to what I said. I wrote, indeed, all governments come and go over the course of human history. One group of men telling another what to do, how to do it, when to do it, is by itself nothing more than men placing limits on other men. One group of men telling others what to do, how to do it, and when to do it is by itself nothing more than men placing limits on other men. Again, reading from my book on power, but in their essence, human beings are not beings of other men or governments. They're not creatures of the ruling class. There is a universe that is greater than and beyond mankind in government. There is an inherent and supreme law that is unamendable by man-made law. Only governments that are established and exist based on this universal order of things are therefore valid, legitimate, and right. Conversely, as America's founders repeatedly declared, legitimate government is not possible, let alone sustainable, if the citizenry is not virtuous. John Adams said, and I quote, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. George Washington agreed, quote, it is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. James Madison warned, quote, to suppose any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without virtue in the people is a shemrical idea. This was the consensus view of the founders. Of course, soft negative power will always exist, even if no government exists. It will exist in the civil society and throughout private life where laws, rules, or customs of some generated from some source within a group or larger community are established. It must be established formally or informally. It must be honored and enforced to prevent chaos and anarchy. Create some kind of social order. Protect the individual and individual liberty and secure the individual's holdings. Again, Locke called this a social contract. So some degree of soft negative power will be exercised that proscribes if not contributes or conscribes some level of individual liberty. It follows, therefore, that the same notion of soft negative power applies to the most beneficent and sound governments. But is this really or accurately characterized as soft negative power?

And I also explained further in the book that people vote for tyranny. And then when tyranny takes hold, it's too late. And it looks like that's what's happening in New York. Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani Mandi writes the New York Post and his comrades that the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses the Post has learned. In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as, quote, instruments of class war. This is pure Marxism. Designed to guarantee the domination of the working class. and demands an end of what it calls the criminalization of working class survival. So I ask you folks in New York, I ask you folks all over the country who are in the working class who work for a living to make ends meet. Do you think enforcing misdemeanor laws are intended to dominate you or to protect you and your family?

They go on for all the working class to achieve collective liberation. We must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state, from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society. This is their platform. They're still at war with the cops in law and order. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is an attack on what I just read to you, on what... On what John Locke and others have written. On the Enlightenment. I told you Marxism is a throwback, just like Islamism is a throwback. It's primitive. And what they're basically saying is the rule and law of the jungle will apply. The more chaos, the better. Does that help the so-called working class? On the campaign trail, Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop focusing on what he's referred to as non-serious crimes. He said police have a critical role to play, but right now we're relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs. He said that in a video that he posted on Twitter, that is X Wednesday. Now, the radical Marxist group has also pushed to slash arrests, gut prosecutors' budgets, abolish cash bail, and all forms of pretrial detention, scrap electronic monitoring and imprisonment for parole violations. People better pay damn well attention to this. You're going to live in a hell hall. And I'm not kidding. New York, Minneapolis. You've got a gun to your head. It's called Marxism and Islamism.

Zohran Mamdani of Queens' Assemblyman, a member of the New York chapter of this radical Marxist organization, is endorsed mayoral candidate, has questioned the purpose of prisons, he's repeatedly called to rollback punishment on so-called nonviolent offenses, both as an assemblyman in Albany and as a mayoral candidate. He's doubled down on his longstanding push to legalized prostitution this week. You know, ladies and gentlemen, legalizing prostitution, that is sex slavery, that is sex trading, this guy is a puk. He's disgusting. He's disgusting. On the campaign trail, Zohran Mamdani backtrack from his prior defund the police views in the wake of the Park Avenue massacre. Yeah, but now he says don't enforce misdemeanors. So he's going to defund the manner in which you enforce the law because the cops are going to be told you cannot do X, Y, and Z.

I don't buy for a second that he's moderated on any of these policing questions because he has yet to really articulate in any deep way why he's moderated or how he's moderated, said Rachel Mangua, a legal policy expert at the Manhattan Institute. All he's really said is that he no longer wants to defund the police, even though police in prison and jail, abolition, or court tenants of his party's platform. This guy's a liar. All Marxists and Islamists are liars. And Zohran Mamdani has even tried to challenge the definition of violent offenses. Quote, what violent crime is is defined by the state. Violence is an artificial construction, he said. Paying attention, folks? The misdemeanors his party wants to erase aren't minor slip-ups. In New York, they include theft or shop-lipping up to $1,000, drug possession, assault without a weapon, and even driving while intoxicated. They also include third-degree ID theft, second-degree sexual abuse, second-degree sexual misconduct, force of little touching, DWI, third-degree drug possession, menacing, petite larceny, third-degree assault. Says he's not going to enforce any of that. Plus he wants prostitution. Can you imagine? Tours are not going to come. They're not going to come. They're driving the city into a hole that they're never going to recover, said Susan Ginsburg, a resident of Greenwich Village. which is descended into a lawless drug dense and soft-on-crime policies created what neighbors have decried as revolving door of justice. People will break the law with impunity. There has to be deterrent for breaking the law. It's astonishing that we've even having this conversation, said Maria Donzalo, an upper west side resident who ran in the Democratic primary for state senate in 2022 and founded the group One City Rising. Everybody's so sick and tired of this, and we just want to have a normal, functional, reasonable way of getting through our day without worrying about being hurt. This is exactly the opposite of what New York needs right now, she said. To end misdemeanor arrest Albany would have to pass a bill decriminalizing or downgrading those changes. No, they wouldn't. He would just direct the police not to enforce the law. That's all.

He could force the NYPD, they write, to deprioritize certain arrests or pressure DAs, not to prosecute certain cases, much like Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA, and his controversial day one memo telling staff to go soft on armed robberies and drug dealing. I'm telling you, his election means death for the city of New York. It just means death. That will create an easy pass for criminals, enabling them to repeat commit misdemeanor crimes, St. Curtis Sliwa, Republican mayoral candidate. This will make the police even less effective in enforcement. Ultimately, this will cause the quality of life to decline dramatically, leading to a breakdown of law and order and chaos and disorder. It's crazy. It'll kill the city. It'll kill the city. We'll be right back. Mark Levin. When was the last time you bragged about your wireless company? Like, did you know my wireless company gave away a thousand American flags to deserving vets and forgave $10 million in veteran debt? Did you know my wireless company raised almost half a million dollars to help prevent veteran suicide? In other words, when your wireless company is pure talk. There's a whole lot to brag about. You can even brag about the coverage you get with Pure Talk, a 5G network that is insanely fast, dependable, and secure. And you can definitely brag about how much money you save with Pure Talk. Unlimited talk text, plenty of data. Just $25 a month, saving the average family over $1,000 a year. It's time to switch to my favorite wireless company, Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Levine. and save an additional 50% of your first month. Again, puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N. Make the Switch today. Pure Talk, wireless worth bragging about. This is Mark Levin, wishing you a happy Labor Day. Now, back to the best of me. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, you know this show has heard everywhere on every platform imaginable. And those that aren't imaginable. Now, the Mark Levin show is available on Spotify. Did you know that, Mr. Producer? As is my book on Power. Not sure how many of you actually tune in there to the Mark Levin show via Spotify, but if you do, those of you who subscribe to that platform, you can download On Power. It's actually a pretty sweet deal. Pretty sweet deal. If you have a premium Spotify account, they automatically get 15 hours of free listening per month, which is more than enough time to listen to the book. Subscribers, premium or not, only have to listen to about 20% of the book for it they count as a full sale. So, take a listen. You might like it. That's on Spotify. If you use that platform, you can download On Power, Mr. Produce. You can download on power. Of course, Amazon.com, Walmart. The airports have the book. We want to thank all of them. Sam's Club, BJs. The Costco's that carry books, we were just told they took on.

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What is happening to the Democrat Party? This is a question that radio and TV hosts and pundits are asking themselves. What happened is that the people, you, you've learned a great deal about the Democrat Party and its ideology, or should I say ideologies over the years, and you don't like it. As I say over and over again, ideas do have consequences. educating and reading remain crucial unfortunately too many people with microphones and TV cameras have forgotten about this scholarship history philosophy still matter they've always mattered it's called getting back to basics getting back to our founding principles beliefs and values and exposing those who seek to pervert undermine and destroy them In 2019, I wrote a book, Unfreedom of the Press, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies and exposed the media's bias and corruption in promoting the Democrat Party in its agenda. In 2021, I wrote a book, American Marxism. It was a massive bestseller, sold nearly 1.5 million copies. It exposed the Marxist influence in our culture and society. and the Democrat Party's role in promoting it. In 2023, I wrote a book called The Democrat Party Hates America, my longest book, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies and exposed the long, poisonous history of the Democrat Party. And as you know, as is my practice, I spent considerable time on radio and TV discussing these books and my research and my arguments. I'm an activist. I'm on a mission. I've always believed that the more we become informed, especially over time, the truth reveals itself to the many. This is why I write these books. I'm asked in these interviews I do by these wonderful hosts, why do you write these books? This is why I write these books. Here's the truth. They're written where it is much more powerful than the broadcast medium, although both are important. But it also helps explain why so many in the broadcast medium keep asking me what has happened to the Democrat Party. We, the people, are in the know. That's what has happened to the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is struggling and failing because it stands for virtually everything most Americans reject. It doesn't mean the Democrat Party is finished. or that it cannot win future elections. On the contrary, there are many factors that even unpopular parties and movements employ to acquire and retain power, like an open border, like changing the election laws and so forth. But take at least some solace in the fact that at this moment in history, right now, we, you, are making a difference. And we need to keep at it. And we need to keep at it. I was motivated to open with this statement in the post-this because of some of the wonderful interviews I've had. I believe my last book interview was this afternoon. Because I've said I've done a hundred or more, and at this point that's enough.

Either people want the book on power or they don't. But I want you to understand why I write these books. It's very important. The written word. Does anybody know what any broadcaster said in 2019 about anything, Mr. Producer? Very little, right? In 2021, in 2023, seven and a half weeks ago. No, don't get me wrong. There have been profound statements here and there. But oddly enough, it's the written word that lives forever. That's why it's so important that when you post on social media, you think about what you're posting. The written word lasts forever. Forever. 100 years from now, 200 years from now, 10 years from now, who knows? These hosts have been fantastic who've interviewed me for this book. Some have compared me to Rush. Some have compared me to Tocqueville. Some have even gone beyond that. There was only one rush. There was only one to Tocqueville. I get it, and I know it. I'm just Mark Levin, and this is what I do. And this is what I do. These books aren't written as an afterthought. These books aren't written from money. In fact, the least amount of money I receive is from books. I have no co-authors. I have no ghostwriters. The vast majority of people who ask you to read or buy quote-unquote their books have both. I have neither, and I never have. I just can't bring myself to come to you in my radio audience, TV audience, and encourage you to do something under false pretenses. I can't do it. I can't do it. You know, in Men in Black, my first book, where some of my friends helped do the research, you'll notice in the acknowledgement section I said, their names, and thank them. But you'll notice that in the vast majority of my books, I don't do that because I do the research. All of them. It is important to me. That if I'm going to try and make a case to you, that it's my case that I'm making to you. Mr. Producer, you can open your microphone. How many people write my monologues? Zero. Zero. And, Rich, you've been with me how many years? About 22. 22 years. You can ask the people who I work with on Blaze. My producers, you can ask my producers at Fox on Life, Liberty, and Levine. How many people write your monologues, your opening statements? None. Zero. That's not really that important. What's important is the content, I hope, I think. That's the goal. 23 years behind this microphone, right, Rich? Is that what we figured out? 23 years.

I do things a little differently. Depends on the day. Depends on what's happening. But I spend a lot of time on history and philosophy and books. And for the most part, program directors and general managers who run stations or a group of stations, they've understood this. The show's different. It's different. My Fox show is different. I have two guests, sometimes one guest, long-form interviews, not a machine gun process of guests and issues and this, that, and the other. And you have reacted very positively over the years to this. What I'm saying is the Democrat Party has been exposed in part by us. The media that's given it to air cover has been exposed. The ideology that moves that party, that is that party, what I call American Marxism, and I would now add Islamism and anti-Semitism, has been exposed, has been exposed. And the Democrat Party's history of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, and so much more. has been exposed in exquisite detail exquisite detail and you don't have to memorize what I say here or elsewhere and grab the book and turn the page there it is and over the years thousands of citations thousands to give the original source material

The reason the Democrat Party is having problems figuring out who it is today is really not an issue of figuring out who it is today. It has, from its very beginning, been a party that has rejected Americanism, from slavery to segregation to Marxism, Islamism, and anti-Semitism. None of those things are Americanism. None of them. None of them. CRT, 1619 project, DEI, rejecting merit and individualism. That's not Americanism. It's the opposite. Secularism. Mass of bureaucracies. centralized government programs that's not our founding that's not who we are that's not what makes america great that doesn't nurture the individual that doesn't give breathing room to an individual's free will we are the sovereign that's not americanism wokeism and all the rest of it they've been exposed

There are millions and millions of you who've read these books, who've listened to this program over the decades, who now watch my program on Fox and others, don't get me wrong, and others. You are citizens. You are involved citizens. The fact that you even listen to this program. The fact that you listen to this program and not something else at the same time, all the alternatives that you have, says a lot about you and your priorities and what's important to you. The fact that millions of you have purchased my books says a lot about you. When people say books are done, they're so blasé. They're so yesterday. It's you. You make the difference. Why do I do three book signings? I don't have to do any book signings. Because I want to hear and see people, look them in the eye, hear what they have to say. At the Reagan Library, we had a sold-out crowd.

The library, which is a huge library, a fantastic library, I encourage you to visit it. It was filled to the rafters. And almost to a person, they said the same thing. We like it when you discuss history and philosophy. We like when you discuss this and that. People are already reading the books as they stand in line. Same with the Barnes and Noble group at Reston. Same with the others. And so I believe it has an impact. It has an impact over time. So when hosts and pundits are asking what's going on, what's happened, it's because they spend too much time bouncing like a ping pong ball from one quick subject to the next, from one superficial issue to the next without slowing down and having a discussion with you. which is what I try to do. I'll be right back. Mark Levin.

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This is the best of Mark Levin. Happy Labor Day. You elected Donald Trump, obviously. You elected him. You elected him in a landslide. And thank God you did. Thank God we did. But you did this. Because you saw the possibilities, both from the first term and beyond. You have yourselves to thank, and you should. You saved the country. You literally saved the country. Four more years of open borders we would have been over. It would have been finished. Finished. Four more years of the river to the sea, the marches and these colleges and universities, we would have been finished. Over. Of degrading the military. Done. You stopped it. Now, we have to be resolute. I'm not one of these that says, oh, it's a shoe in the midterm election. I'm hearing this too. It's driving me crazy. Some of the same people who four years ago, five years ago, we're talking about the shoeing with that midterm election turned out to be not a disaster, but a huge disappointment, didn't it? So a lot of people, just because they talk doesn't mean they know what the hell they're talking about, of course. But this is very, very important. So I want you to hear this. I want you to hear this from Enten, the chief data analyst over at CNN. He's really the only shining light over there at CNN. Cut eight, go. Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the crackle barrel rebrand has with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing? Oh, my goodness gracious. What are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states? Let's look at the key four swing states that, in fact, do keep track of registration by party. Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005. of these key battleground states, we go out to the southwest, Arizona. How about Nevada? Republicans haven't done this well since 2005. Oh my goodness gracious at this point of cycle. North Carolina, I couldn't find a point at which Republicans were doing better at this point in the cycle. It's at least this century. It probably goes way back in the last century. And Pennsylvania, very similar Republicans doing better at this point than in any... point at any point this century, at least as far as I could find. Now, what types of gains are we talking about here for the Republican Party? Well, let's compare it to this point during the first Trump administration all the way back in 2017. Look at this. The Republican Party gains in party registration compared to this point back in 2017 during the Trump first administration in Arizona, you got a Republican gain of three points. Okay, how about Nevada? Up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in the southwest. a gain of six points. How about again, we come to the East Coast, North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans. And in the Keystone State, in the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania, again, we're talking about a gain of eight points. My goodness gracious for Republicans, they are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters, and it absolutely paid off for them back in the 2024 election.

Now, of course, Donald Trump has been president since January. Are there any bright spots for Democrats? Have they picked up any ground since January 1 in terms of party registration? Uh-uh, not in these key swing states, these four key swing states. What are we talking about? Party registration margin gains since January 1, 2025, which parties gain in Arizona? The GOP, how about Nevada? The GOP? How about in Pennsylvania? We'll make it four for four. The GOP. The bottom line is this, Jessica Dean. When it comes to party registration, Republicans have made massive gains compared to eight years ago. They are in their best position in these key... four swing states dating back at least 20 years. You have to go back at least 20 years, at least in the case in Nevada, longer in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. So Republicans looking pretty gosh darn good, at least when it comes to party registration, and we'll see what happens down the road. But at this point, as I said at the beginning, the Democratic brand is in about as good a position as the cracker bowel rebrand. It is bad, bad, bad for the Democrats. Okay. And we know why that's the case. They've been exposed. by you in voting for Donald Trump and voting against them. We the people have the ultimate power. Still, perhaps not forever. This is a hugely positive period. We can have a hugely negative period too. We still have pockets of this dark cloud. That has the potential of metastasizing. When you look at New York City, with Mondama, when you look at Minneapolis, when you look at some of these other areas, when you look at the damage that was in fact done by the Biden regime, by these federal judges, by the bureaucracy, they're not going away. which was my point to Victor Davis-Hanson. They're not going away. They never go away. We're talking about electoral politics right now. They operate through electoral politics, but mostly through the permanent government that they've created. Activists lifetime appointed judges and effectively activists lifetime appointed bureaucrats. Donald Trump has reached down into the bureaucracies, reached down into the culture and society where few have ever gone on the conservative Republican side, and he's dealt with it, and he's dealing with it. Thanks to you, because you elected him, despite all the static. And why did you do that? Because you're informed, because you're knowledgeable, because you know what the press is, because you understand what Marxism is. You know, we, you and I, we've introduced or reintroduced words into the culture here that weren't used. They were considered, well, too cutting, too hot. The words Marxist and Communist, reintroduced into our society through my book American Marxism. And when I went on Fox, when I went on other networks, behind this microphone.

I said, stop saying progressive. Stop saying liberal. Stop saying socialist. They are what they are. Call them what they are. The President of the United States calls them what they are. Now you do and I do. Because we talked about this at length. I wrote about this at length. 1.5 million of you nearly read about it in American Marxism. If it's Marxism, it's Marxism. Why give them cover? Even when I was being interviewed from my book, American Marxism. Some of those interviewing me tried to steer clear of it, and I insisted, no. No. If we don't identify what is for what it is, we can't defeat it. In that same book I talked about the Marxist model of oppressed versus oppressor. And I spoke about it over and over and over again. And now it's said by virtually every host on Fox, every host on conservative radio, and that's a very, very good thing. A very good thing. Because that one phrase helps to explain a lot. But so much more. So much more. Many of you were probably upset over the last few months. When I called out the fake MAGA, you were trying to drag us down, trying to drag down President Trump, who sounded more like Bernie Sanders. I identified them by name. And they were trashing our country but pretending they were America first. I identified them by name. We're buying into the Islamist, anti-Semitism, regurgitating it, and still do. I called them out by name when others refused, when others were fearful. We cannot be defined by them because they are not providing you with principles and values and beliefs. To consider, to digest, to debate. Bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism is not who we are. Economic socialists, cultural Marxists, that's not who we are. And I talked again and again, name them, that we have nothing in common with these people. They're not who they say they are. And yet more and more, they reveal who they are. These false prophets. Make America great again. What does that mean? Make America great again. Was Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan in 1984. And he won 49 states.

one of the most massive electoral victories in american history the electoral college other than minnesota and d c he won every state rhode island massachusetts new york illinois Every single state. He almost won Minnesota. He lost it by 3,000 votes. Meaning if 1,500 votes had swung in his favor, he would have won Minnesota too. The home state of the Democrat candidate, Walter Mondale. He almost won it. Peace through strength. Reaganism. Donald Trump. Make America great again. Maga. Donald Trump piece through strength. There's a reason why Donald Trump hangs Ronald Reagan's official White House portrait over his left shoulder behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office. Reagan had a massive appeal to blue-collar voters. To union members. He received the endorsement of the Teamsters in 1980 and 1984. He understood, as our brother Craig Shirley will tell you in his multiple books, he's written about Reagan, a great historian. The Reagan appealed to all Americans, but especially. Blue-collar Americans. Donald Trump. What a landslide. A massive landslide. It wasn't as big as Reagan's, but it's as big as can be. Why? Because of the demographic changes that has been orchestrated by the Democrat Party.

The change in the population. And yet look what Trump did. A massive landslide. Every single swing state. And he would have won them bigger than was reported. But for the fact that the census was inaccurate. That the census was inaccurate. against him and for the Democrats. And we would have had more Republicans in the House. Two men who won massive landslides, popular vote and electoral college, under different circumstances, but won them nonetheless, using the same or similar arguments. Make America great again. Peace through strength and so forth. Very different personalities. But two great communicators in their own way. Two great communicators. Makes a big difference. It's my honor to have known Reagan and to know Trump. I can tell you that right now. And in both cases, the American people rose up and voted overwhelmingly for them. The problem with the Democrat Party is not that the Democrat Party has changed. It's always been a bigoted party. It's always been a racist party. It's always been an anti-Semitic party. It has. It has. It's always been a big government party, a central government party, it's always been a party that rejects the Constitution from slavery and segregation and all the rest. It's just that it's been exposed, despite the fact that it owns the media. Because of you. Because of you. We'll be right back.

You're listening to The Best of the Mark Levin show. Happy Labor Day. Now, there's certain things you may disagree with President Trump is doing. There were certain things that people disagreed with when Ronald Reagan did them, too, as a matter of fact. I know I lived through that. Whether it was amnesty or certain trade barriers that he imposed on particularly Japan and other countries. I get that. It's okay. But I look at the trajectory of things. And so you can come out and oppose a certain policy or something like that, but I look at the trajectory of things. And that's why I think you take the overall person, the overall agenda where he's driving the country, whose opponents are, where he's driving them, how he's trying to get the culture back and society, the civil part of society back. This is crucial. Very, very important. In fact, it will determine whether the nation survives or not. I always feel like it's important to lay the foundation for what's actually taking place in this country to step back, take a look, and have this discussion with you because it's crucially important. It's very, very important. People are asking, what's going on with the Democrat Party? It's collapsing. I've said it. It's collapsing and so forth and so on. Why? Why? Why are people turning away from it? Because you're informed. Because you're talking to other people. Because you know. That's why it's important. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, our truckers, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Israel, and you, the American people. God bless you. Thank you for being here. See tomorrow.