Interview: On Power - Mark Levin's New Book Detailing the Positive and Negative Use of Power In Our Lives

Mark Levin's New Book Detailing the Positive and Negative Use of Power In Our Lives

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today is a day where you got one task, you
one thing that you need to do, and that is
swamp the book. Swamped the But you remember last year
President Trump was talking about swamping the vote. We've got
to turn out a number so big that the left
can't steal it. Well, your objective today is to swamp
the book. The Great One. Mark Levin's latest book on

(00:22):
Power is out now. It's an incredible thing. Levin has
had eight number one New York Times bestsellers and the
New York Times. The only way you're going to get
to number one on the New York Times bestseller list
as a constitutional conservative is if it is so overwhelming
the book sales that they just can't ignore it. And

(00:43):
so that's why you got to get out there. Make
on Power number nine. Swamp the book today. Pick up
your copy Amazon dot com. The Great One joining us now,
congratulations on what is about to be your ninth number
one New York Times bestseller.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Well, first, well, thank you. I mean you're now my
home radio station. You realize that now, that said, Brian,
you never know. I just want people to read the book.
I want them to get the book. I want to
share it with their high schoolers and their college kids,
their grandkids. And there's a lot of great bookstores where
you broadcast from a bunch of beautiful Barnes and Nobles,

(01:21):
some Costcos, other bookstores there, Walmart. They all have the
book and they are selling. And I want to thank
all the all the wonderful, wonderful patriots out there, because
the point of this book is to provide new thinking,
new arguments to go on offense against what's taking place
in this country with the Marxist and Islami's fusion that

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we see all over the place in the media that
gives it so much support and voice. So they control
the culture right now. I don't think there's any question
about it. Our president's fighting against it. He's going after
these colleges and universities. He's fighting DEEI, and I think
we got to get into the culture. We've got to
get into society. It's not just politics, and we've got

(02:03):
to take it back or we're going to lose everything.
Donald Trump's not going to be president forever either, and
so my view is really break down what's going on
and break down with this country's based on. You know,
we talk about liberty, we talk about rights, which are
very very important. But liberty without rights means nothing, and
rights without power to exercise them mean absolutely nothing. And

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so when you really think about the Revolutionary War, the
Tea Party, and all the rest of it that took place,
it was over power. It was over who gets to
exercise power over the individual, over the people, over the society.
And that's what this battle is about. With Bernie Sanders
and Mendami and all the radical leftists. They want a rule,
they want the power, centralized government, ubiquitous government. They went

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conformity and uniformity. They don't believe in free speech. We,
on the other hand, we need to explain, particularly the
young people, this is a bad all over whether or
not you live in a authoritarian country or a republic.
And I call the Democrats authoritarian democrats because that's what
they are. The vote is fine, but they don't really

(03:12):
care about the vote unless they win. They have this
enshrined permanent government. That's how they intend to rule. With
their judges, with the bureaucracy, the media, with academia. These
are all shrine permanent fixtures. And it's a problem. Whereas
you and I and our audiences, we don't view the
world this way. Our nation was founded under God, the

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Judeo Christian belief system, that God is the sovereign, that
on earth is children of the sovereign. When it comes
to governance, that we have a circle of liberty around
each and every one of us. Our society comes first,
every civil society does. And their wars on the civil society,
Marxist wars on the civil society, the Islamist wars on
the civil society. The French Revolution was a war on

(03:56):
the civil society. Our revolution was a war not on society,
put on representative government. We wanted representative government. So I
get into all this, I get into what's liberty, what's rights?
Why are they important, how do we defend them, how
do we promote them? The use of language and wokeism,
and and what the left tries to do in order

(04:16):
to prevent communication, particularly like the pandemic, particularly then they
want to shut down communication among citizens. So the battle
here really is between an American Marxism and Islamism, which
is fused together, which is fused together, which is utterly
and completely incompatible with Americanism and our founding. So that's

(04:37):
really the thumbnail Skip to the book.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, Mark brilliantly outlined a couple of points want to
pick up on. You talk a lot about negative power
positive power, and you know, all I was thinking about,
you know, the then line between love and hate that
people will talk about and something else that you just referenced,
you know, which, liberty in this country. And you know,
as Reagan said, you know it's it's we're worling a

(05:02):
generation away from potentially losing these things.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
For the better part of twenty years.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I would say that one day South Florida would save
this country from itself, and people thought I was nuts.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
But the reason I said it was that so many.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
People were born in this country don't appreciate what they
were born into. They don't understand Marxism, they don't understand socialism, communism,
you know, they'll buy into it just hasn't been done right.
And the difference is you have so many people in
South Florida in particular, that know exactly what all that
is about, and that's why they're here. And we did

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see that rise up, especially in this last election, to
where many of the especially you know, Hispanic the Latino
demographics that had historically been on the left, have recognized
that it's transformed Florida in a massive way. But I
also believe that we're starting to see that transformationally across
the country. You know, when when you talk about negative power,

(05:58):
positive power and basically how it asks influences every aspect.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Of all of our lives.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
How important do you think demographically those that have actually
lived through this, or at least are not more than
a generation from having family that did and helping win
this battle.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, it's very, very important. That depends on the part
of the country. If you look at New York, they
don't have Cuban refugees, Venezuelan refugees, Nicaraguan refugees, and so forth.
And so the people coming out of other places of
Central and South America, from the Middle East predominantly who
bring their culture and their attitudes with them and are

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not assimilating into the country. And so you see this
in our universities. You see this in Minneapolis, parts of Michigan,
parts of New Jersey, as I've said, New York, and
it is a growing problem in our country. Also, if
you talk to us I often do first generation Cubans
who escape Castro and so they will tell you their grandchildren,

(06:57):
some of them are moving left because the further you
get away from these experiences, the further you get away
from the history of World War two, further you get
away from the Holocaust and anti Semitism because it's not taught.
This stuff is not taught. Castro is not taught. Hitler's
not taught. You have people who are influenced by college faculty,

(07:19):
by the media, by phony influencers, and so forth and
so on, and that's where they get their knowledge from
the point of this book is to say, you know what,
let's start over a little bit here in this debate.
Let's get right down to the grassroots of what we're
talking about here. Who is going to control your life.
That's the issue of power. It's the issue of communism,
it's the issue of freedom, it's the issue of Islamism.

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It's the issue of the Judeo Christian belief system. And
what I positive in the book is when you really
look at the Declaration of Independence, not superficially just rush
through the words, but when you really understand it, there's
four references to God in one form or another. Because
these men founded the country on our Judeo Christian beliefs.
This them and fused it with the Enlightenment, with Locke

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and Mondescue. Power checks power. That's what was critical when
you look at the Constitution. If you remember anything at
all about the Constitution, it's power checking power. Three branches
define powers. A tenth Amendment. What power is not specifically
stated belongs to the states. The ninth Amendment, which an

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effect is the declaration of independence, recognition of individual liberty.
We the people are the sovereign. So when you hear
a Bernie Sanders or when you hear Mondamier, these people
talking about we'll take the means of production, we'll control
the housing market, we don't want billionaires, we'll control food.
This is Marxism and what does that mean. That means

(08:47):
that you are losing power over your own sovereign. The
society is losing power over itself. And what they really
want to change is the society is the civil societiety
that predates the government. So it is a bizarre sort
of French revolution mentality. They want to destroy the society,

(09:08):
which means they need to rejigger the society, which means
they need to re engineer human beings. They don't care
about the individual, they don't care about free will. That's
why they attack capitalism. Look, I make this point. This
guy talks about in New York, he talks about affordability.
I want people to think for a minute, where capitalism

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and the industrial revolution is done for this country. The
average person in America, mister and missus America, whether you're
a plumber, hvac guy, whether you're an electrician, whatever you are,
you live better today than any king or queen lived
one hundred hundred and fifty years ago. Period. So people
in this country, it doesn't matter if we have billionaires,

(09:49):
what do they have to do with anything. The fact
of the matter is, you can go into Costco today,
you can go to Walmart today, you can go into
publics today. Walk around and look, take it all in.
Understand that we are living like no human beings have
ever lived before. Why because of Marxism, he'll know, because
of economic socialism, of course. Not. Because you have the

(10:10):
power over your own future. Through capitalism, you have the
power to make your own decisions about what you want
to be and what you want to become without people
telling you what to do and how to do it.
These politicians who want to tell us what to do
and how to live. They have no experience, they have
no knowledge. Even if they did, it wouldn't be good enough.
They have an ideology, and it is an ideology that

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destroys freedom, that destroys the Bill of Rights. Marxism and
this radical e Islamism are incompatible with Americanism and constitutionalism,
which is why they are constantly trashing our history with
the sixteen nineteen project, which is why they are constantly
trashing merit and success, which is what individuality is about,

(10:56):
with CRT and DEI, which is why they are constantly
pushing Wokism. Wocism is language control, thought control, new words,
old words with new meanings. You have to reject that
there's two sexes. You have to destroy the nuclear family.
This is thought control, This is government control. You know,
Marx talked about destroying the parental child relationship, and you

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see this happening in our public schools, certainly outside of Florida.
That's the effort, and the Supreme Court just ruled on it. VN. Methis,
who was a great Austrian economist. He said, we all
talk and think like Marxist right now. So I want
people to live where you and I live, to understand
that they that may not be the thought process throughout
our communities, but in large slots of the country it is,

(11:43):
and it's getting worse.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
The book is on Power. It's out today.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Get a copy, and by the way, with so much
what Mark's talking about. If you never did get a
copy of American Marxism, pick up that one too, because
that is a great company you meant to on Pawer
and the context to what Marxism is rooting through our
society and what the objective of the left is.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Mark continued success. God bless you, my.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Friend, Brian. Thanks for everything. You're great. Thanks for covering
for me from time to time when I can't be
on there and I want to tell people something. I
am constantly in bookstores, so if you hang out at
a bookstore, you might actually bump into me. I just
love them. God bless you, my friend.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Thank you very much, thank you, And it's my pleasure
for sure to have the opportunity to fill in for
the great one.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right,