On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, for the media, and now for most politicians, what’s most important is not winning this war against Iran AND ensuring it’s not replaced by another monstrous regime, but the price of gasoline on a daily basis. If this military campaign is ended prematurely, and the second phase of ensuring the institution of a civil government is not accomplished, chances are this entire effort will be for naught. The economic, geo-political, and national security gains, which have been immense, and the stated goal of liberating the Iranian people, which initiated this process, could become a disaster in every respect — including political. After we destroyed the Japanese regime in WWII, the U.S. wrote their constitution and installed a government that would be aligned with us. We must give very focused thought to what comes after the Iranian regime’s navy, air force, missiles, and top leadership are destroyed. It still has a standing army, secret police, and an entire Islamist-supporting infrastructure. There are many approaches to dealing with this short of a democracy project or sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers. But to be clear, if a void is created and left there, and we do not fill it (perhaps with our allies) or significantly influence how it is tilled, it most definitely will be filled by the forces in Iran that remain from the old regime with the support of their allies, including China and Russia. Also, polls show that 91% approve of President Trump’s handling of the Iran situation among MAGA supporters and 83% among Republicans. Since Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon, and Candace Owens opposed this military campaign, their audience must largely consist of leftists, anti-Semites, foreigners, Islamists, Marxists, and Democrats. Later, Democrats fiercely oppose voter ID requirements, particularly photo IDs, despite broad public support across all races. Photo IDs are routinely required for everyday activities, yet Democrats claim they are too difficult to obtain, especially for Black people and married women, which is inherently racist and condescending. Without photo ID verification, there is no reliable way to confirm a voter’s identity, prevent double voting, or stop impersonation, particularly in the 11 states (mostly Democratic) that do not require any ID. Finally, Dr James Lindsay calls in and argues that efforts to drive a wedge between Jews and Christians, and to redefine Americanism, stem from multiple interconnected motives. Primarily, opponents of President Trump are now attempting to weaken him and his agenda from within by fracturing his coalition. This includes pushing the Republican Party toward a more radical, identity-based politics inspired by failed European conservatism, moving away from the traditional American ideal of equal citizenship regardless of background. Influencers driving these narratives are motivated by a mix of genuine ideological commitment to paleoconservative or Buchanan-style views, financial incentives like chasing clicks, payments, bot amplification, and foreign boosting, all converging to reorganize the Republican Party and sever U.S.-Israel ties to diminish America’s global defensive posture.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Welcome. The only one who can defeat our mission in Iran is us. Is us. The goal is to defeat this enemy. What does that mean? Take out their air force, their navy, their leadership, and leave. Well, that’s not defeating an enemy. That’s defeating their air force, their Navy, and their leadership. They have secret police. They have an entire army infantry. They have all this sort of stuff that’s there. And so it will regenerate. If we leave the vacuum. This is not an argument for a democracy project. It’s not an argument for hundreds of thousands of troops. It’s not an argument for any of that. But I wrote a piece over at Fox News Digital, I think it was published a week or ten days ago. And I said, we need to be thinking about what’s going to happen. Once we are victorious over these. These elements of the Iranian regime. I don’t think we’re giving it enough thought, quite frankly. Now, maybe the president is and maybe his people are, but we the people and certainly the media. What’s to come? Now the prince has said, look, I’ll I’ll be an interim leader for 100 days. He put out an entire plan. It’s on the Internet. Looks like a very good plan to me. And there are others potentially, I suppose. But if we’re going to allow the price of a gallon of gasoline be determinative on what I thought was a conditions based military operation, at a time based military operation, we could lose. Not even lose the piece. We could lose the war. After our forces withdraw from that area. Which means all of this would be for naught. And I don’t want it all to be for naught. I want us to be victorious. And we can be victorious. It matters. The government that’s there. When we defeated Japan, which you’ll remember, they attacked us on December 7th, 1941. We demanded an unconditional surrender. And they sent word through emissaries. Per the Truman administration that they would accept the surrender, but not unconditional. And Truman said, no, unconditional. We didn’t fight like this and lose all these men. And the horrors of the. The Japanese government for some conditional surrender. It’s unconditional or nothing. And they refused. So we dropped the first atomic bomb. And they refused again. So they dropped the second atomic bomb, a completely different atomic bomb. And that was it. That’s all we had to atomic bomb. So they’re hoping they would work. I’m not suggesting dropping nuclear missiles and so forth, but that’s not my point. This enemy has no Navy, has no air force. Their missiles are being destroyed. It’s been a fantastic, spectacular military operation and campaign. But the end goal has to make sure has to be sure that it cannot regenerate. Remember how this started. The president promised the Iranian people that he would come to their rescue. And people are saying the Iranian people need to be able to rise up. There’s no question about that. But their army is still heavily armed. They still have tanks. They still have armored personnel carriers. They still have the equivalent of bazookas and automatic weapons. And on and on and on. I have to hope that we’re arming the opposition there. I hope we are. Nope. We’re doing other things. I really do. But if we lose. What we’ve done here as a result of. Complaints about the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Seven, eight months before the midterm elections. What a disaster and horror that would be. I heard somebody on TV say we never. We never replace a government after a victory in Tell them what to do. It’s a lot of ignorance. Japan is what I was pointing out. We certainly did determine what that government would look like. We wrote their constitution. We had to approve who took over. We didn’t fight and lose so many men to leave it that chance. And we ought not leave this to chance. Ladies and gentlemen, we must not. If the purpose of the battle, the purpose of military action, was needed in the first place. And it was. Then you can’t leave it to chance. You just can’t. Again to stress I’m not pushing a democracy project of any kind. I’m not pushing anything other than. We take the time to really figure out how we want this to be. Handled. And as I say, maybe the president, as people already have and they choose not to convey it. But I hear an awful lot of pressure, endless news reports on the price of gasoline. We didn’t have any news reports on the price of gasoline. One, it was far more expensive than it is today as a result of climate change, ideology and religion, when they were shutting down leases, shutting down drilling sites, shredding shutting down federal lands, making it difficult. Very difficult to produce oil domestically and to refine it. We didn’t have those charts popping up, showing us day by day how much the price of gasoline was going up. It’s almost $5 a gallon for premium. Almost $5 a gallon, and they drove up the price of automobiles by like four or $5,000. Remember all that? The expenses were enormous. And this is temporary. It’s temporary. There’s plenty of oil. But the world is worried about what happens to the Straits. We’re 20% of the oil passes. Not 20% of our oil, but there’s a world market out there. But that would be temporary, especially if the Iranian regime and. Its entrails were eliminated. The streets would be wide open. I’m just cautioning you now because I heard a. Almost a complete change in. Tone. It could be three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, two where we’re pretty much done. You know, we’ll be out of there soon enough. And we’ll see. By the way, a footnote for you folks out there. As you know, I worked for President Reagan for eight years and I work for several cabinet members, including the attorney general of the United States. We’ve had this discussion before. I’ve never written a book, an essay, a tweet. I’ve never said anything behind this microphone or on TV about any of the. Confidential discussions I had with. Any of those officials. Not once. In all the years I’ve been doing this, I am deeply troubled. When people talk to the president of the United States, either he seeks them out of they seek him out, and then they go to Politico, or the newspaper pages of the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post or Axios. Wherever they go. And they start talking about their discussions with the president of the United States. They want to pat themselves on the head. They want to pat other people on the head. Look at me. Look at me. I find it very disloyal. Any president and cabinet secretaries, they have a right to confidentiality when they’re seeking information or when somebody is providing an unsolicited. It’s very troubling to me. It very much is. And so when I see names attached to that, I really I cringe. It’s bad enough that you have anonymous leakers who are basically traitors trying to persuade the president or push the agenda in one direction or the other. That’s bad enough when you have people saying the president did this because I told him and I told him this and you got to get him on a certain day with a certain whether in front of a certain sandwich or whatever they say. That is unacceptable to me. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
I want you to think about something, ladies and gentlemen. And this idea is not one hatched by me. It was hatched by somebody, at least the first time I saw it online by the name of Mark Twain. 24. Max Swain, 24. I don’t know his real name, but it doesn’t matter when you listen to what he posts. I think it’s safe for us to acknowledge that most of the people who consume. Carlson, Kelly Owens, Bannon and so forth are not supporters of the president. Their audience are filled with leftists. And anti-Semitic foreigners. Now, how does this person draw that conclusion? He’s looking at interactive polls, one of the great polls. And they ask this question, do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the situation in Iran? MAGA supporters, 91% approve. 6% disapprove. How about just people who identify as Republicans? 83% approve, 11% disapprove. And then, of course, it flips when you’re talking about the Democrats overwhelmingly oppose what Trump has done. And, of course, the leftists, even more so. And so his point is this. Qatar often opposed this military campaign. Meager. Kelly opposed this military campaign bloated. Bannon opposed this military campaign. Eva Braun. Owens opposed this military campaign, but 91% of you support it and support the president and the troops. And so the logical conclusion with a mathematical certainty is that the vast majority of the people who are watching. These podcasts. Are not Trump supporters, are not MAGA are not conservatives and are not Republicans. The vast majority. This also explains why they play their Hate America card. They play their hate the military card about the military raping. As Carlson said the other day, they play the anti Jew card, the anti Christian card, because they’re playing to the left, they’re playing to the Democrats and they’re playing to anti-Semites in Pakistan and places like that. That is exactly what’s going on. And these elements on the left, the Islamists, the Marxists, the Democrats and so forth, they love what Qatar’s son sang, what Minka Kelly saying, what bloated Bannon is saying, what Eva Braun Owens is saying. They love it. They love the. The sort of chaos they’re trying to create. It’s our enemies at home and abroad. Really make up their audience. Really make up there. And it’s a brilliant point and the numbers bear it out. 91% of MAGA supporters support the President’s handling of the situation in Iran. 6% disapprove. 83% of Republicans approve. 11% disapprove. So where are all these viewers coming from? For individuals who are in the 6%? Well, they’re not coming from Republicans, they’re not coming from MAGA, they’re not coming from conservatives. They’re not coming from people who actually. Embrace their Christian faith, their Jewish faith and so forth and so on. They’re coming from the enemy. Or that coming from bigots and racists overseas. They’re coming from Democrats and leftists. That is the audience. That is enriching Qatar Olsen. Meeker. Kelly Bloated Bannon. Bruno And this is their audience. These are there people. And it also matches up with the Democrat Party that’s wide open. To the Marxists in the Islamist wide open to foreigners coming into the country wide open. To the trash mouthing of Christianity and Jews and denying the Judeo-Christian belief system. Wide open to these people. That’s who their audience is. Now, maybe it wasn’t always their audience. Maybe many of you used to be in their audience, but the truth is, the vast majority of their audience has to be. These elements has to be. So we shouldn’t be listening to them. The president shouldn’t be. Not that he is. The vice president shouldn’t, the cabinet members shouldn’t. Members of Congress shouldn’t. Many members of Congress are cowards, and I include especially Republicans who won’t call these people out. There was a wonderful event with National Review and Republican Jewish Coalition. On the issue of antisemitism, many Christians spoke out. Leading Christians, Many politicians who are Christians, not Jews. Jews spoke out as well. I want to give a salute to Senator Cotton, to Senator Cruz and the others who spoke out. Because, ladies and gentlemen. The Republican establishment in Washington, D.C., other than a handful. Is silent. Top people in the administration other than the president. And the secretary, defense and secretary of state are silent. That’s not going to fly. It’s certainly not going to fly where we live in the millions of us. If it’s too difficult to denounce people who embrace Naziism. And neofascism. Well, then you’re in the wrong party. But this is a very, very important revelation that the following significant following that these individuals have are not red blooded Americans patriots. Quite the opposite. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
When you look online, when you look online at all the people who say the most hateful things imaginable. The most hateful things imaginable. Well, I don’t believe those are our people either. Some of them know they’re up and most of them know. Most of them? No. That’s not who we are. That’s not who we are. Liberty’s Voice. Today is a great show. And you can check it out on Rumble and YouTube. And I actually decided to jump into Aristotle. And look at a couple of words that I think are important, especially now. Words like prudence. And virtue. And morality. All of which Aristotle wrote about a great length. The genius of all geniuses, really. He was a student of Plato. Plato was a student of Socrates. But Aristotle was incredible, as were others. But to me he was in terms of ancient philosophers, truly number one. And I’m not alone. Your founding fathers felt exactly the same way. And so I went from Aristotle and focused on mostly prudence and virtue. What do they mean? Why are they important? Why are they important in your own life? I think that’s relatively obvious. But why are they important in our our polity? In our society, in our culture. And when decisions are made like a president making a decision. It cannot be ideological. Hey, no. Forever Wars. Hey. Hey, America, first when they don’t even know what they’re talking about. And most of the people who say that these podcasters, they don’t mean America first, they mean fortress America, a phrase that Ronald Reagan used to denounce the isolationists. You can’t have other countries arming up for war. And we’re isolationists. And you can’t have it can’t wait for nuclear missiles to be in flight before you realize there’s an imminent threat. So this is your rational. This is a logical. Go back and read George Washington’s farewell address. A lot of the isolationists use it to say, see that? He said no foreign entanglements. George Washington was referring to what France and Britain, the two most terrible armies on the face of the earth. The United States was being pulled by one and the other to join ranks for one or the other. And even within his cabinet, he had had individuals who were in support of one or the other. Jefferson, the French, Hamilton, the British, and the country was largely divided as well. And that’s what he meant. No foreign entanglements. He didn’t mean don’t have any allies. And he also says in that speech it’s important to have allies. And he says in subsequent speeches. That it’s important to have a military that’s ready to fight and that. Foreign adversaries and enemies, be aware that we’re able and ready to fight. I’ve studied that man backwards and forwards, as I have most of them. As I have most of them. No president can look down the. The sale of a potential nuclear weapon and an enemy that says we’re going to have 11 nuclear weapons in ten days. And sit on his hands. No rational president could do that. The Democrats, though, they had won that paved the way for nuclear weapons, Obama and the other that was paying for them. BIDEN And you can see the Democrat Party is an institution. The way that they’re trying to undermine our military and our president, much like those individuals. I’m talking about the woke right, neo fascist, isolationist. They’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which is exactly why they’re quoted by the enemy. They’re quoted by the enemy. And there’s a reason they hate Netanyahu, too, apart from a lot of the reasons we already know. Because he’s an incredibly successful leader of Israel. And for the left and the Democrats, when Netanyahu, I think it was 2015, spoke to a joint. Meeting of Congress, and I was in the gallery gallery watching it. Denouncing the Iran deal, denouncing in his own way, as politely as he could the Obama deal. The Democrats turned on Netanyahu in the state of Israel from that point forward and forever more. And I strongly believe, in addition to the loathsome Jew hatred and anti-Semitism in self-hatred of Americans. anti-Americanism by these these podcaster, these cabals cycle them. That their audience now is made up of these people. That’s their audience. You don’t have millions of red blooded Americans listening to somebody talking about our troops. Our troops will rape. The women and girls in Iran. If there is an unconditional surrender, you don’t have them talking this way. You don’t have millions of Americans listening to somebody who’s basically saying that Hitler was misunderstood and Churchill created an extended world war to. Millions of Americans know, especially conservatives. No way. No way. And so this has finally been figured out. It’s actually quite logical and simple. That these people are making their money, some probably from foreign governments as well. But beyond that, that their audience is made up of unpatriotic, in many cases foreigners. Islamists, Democrats, Marxists who love to hear the trashing of Donald Trump by people who who claim to be a Trump supporter. Part of MAGA. Again, many of you perhaps used to watch them. But you’ve dropped them, right? Well, somebody picked up the ball and that’s who picked up the ball. So today’s podcast and I don’t want to be repetitious, so I don’t do the same show on radio that I do on the podcast or on TV or whatever. And there’s so much to talk about anyway. I use these platforms in different ways, but again, to draw the biggest audiences possible to radio, to the video podcast under the TV program, because that’s what matters to build this, this electoral and. Patriotic juggernaut. That’s the goal. And so we went deep with Aristotle, we went deep on philosophy, and then I applied it to the war with Iran. Isolationism and interventionism. And this is him and that ism. It’s not the test. Forever wars. You hear people on TV, radio. We don’t want any of our forever wars. Well, what does that even mean? What it means is you don’t want stupid wars. But that’s not what they mean. They mean never take military action. Never unless we’re struck first. That’s called suicide. Cut, one must reduce or go. If the Democrats were in power, what would they do? Well, we know what they would do. What did Obama do? He signed a deal that ensured that that regime would get a nuclear weapon, just not on his watch. So outrageous. Netanyahu came to the United States Congress. He was so concerned about it and urged the Congress to vote against it. This is one of the reasons the Democrats hate him, because he took on their deal and he took on their president, our President Obama, and he did it publicly. And this is why they hate Netanyahu. Hate him, hate him, hate him. The reason the woke Reich, the isolationists, the ideologues, the reason they hate Netanyahu is because he’s the greatest leader Israel’s ever had. And he’s defended that country like nobody else could. And when we say he’s the Churchill of the Middle East, if not the Churchill of our times, there’s a reason for that. Hmm. They hate him because he’s a great leader. The reason they hate Trump because he’s a great leader is they weren’t great men and great leaders. They wouldn’t hate them because they’d be failures and they would see an opportunity for power. That’s quite literally what’s taking place. Quite literally, what’s taking place. I can’t tell you how impressed I am always was. But with our secretary of war, Haig. Seth, he’s been absolutely fantastic. And when we come back, I want you to hear some of the things he had to say. Very important. I also want to get into. Back to New York. In this man, dummy. We talked at length yesterday, and I’m not going to repeat it. About as outrageous comments. Went to. Islamo Nazis tried to slaughter civilians and cops with IEDs. Too stupid to get them to work properly, apparently. And they checked their homes in Pennsylvania and they found a whole lot more. And they’re going on about Al-Akhbar and things of that sort. They’re confessing. They’re very proud of themselves. Well, now we know the mayor had dinner. When Carlisle, a supporter of Hamas. You see, Merriman Adami is not a Zuhdi Jasser. He’s not. He’s not the assistant manager of my bank. A wonderful man, a good friend, a Muslim gentleman. He’s not that. He’s an Islamist. That’s what he is. Yes. Like his wife. Just like his wife. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Just to underscore this point, after we destroyed the Japanese regime in World War Two, we wrote their constitution and we installed a government that would be aligned with us. We weren’t going to leave it to chance that after all we went through, not after the grave threat that we faced. So we now must give focused thought to what comes after the Iranian regime’s navy, air force and missiles have been destroyed. And their top leadership. It still has a standing army, still as secret police as an entire Islamist supporting infrastructure. There are no doubt many approaches to dealing with this short of a democracy project or hundreds of thousands of ground troops. But make no mistake. If a void is created. And we don’t fill it. It will be filled. It will be filled by these other forces. It will be filled by the Communist Chinese and the fascistic Russians. It will be filled. And that country will be lost and those people will be enslaved as they are now. There’s simply no question about it. The isolationist, the Forever War types, as well as the others. We don’t want a forever war and we don’t want a World War three after World War One. Germany. In other countries, they were defeated, were left destitute and impoverished. In fact, the victors. Forced a peace agreement on them that required. To allow us to remove most of their industries. Physical plant. And so Germany and the others. That a massive depression. Their money was worthless. People were starving. And of course, it created an environment. Which would eventually lead to the Communists and the fascists fighting with each other for control over their country. Now, obviously, this is the shortest of short version. It’s a very complicated, but. Compelling story in one day, I’ll do it. And Germany was prior to this, probably the most advanced country on the face of the earth technologically in sciences and physics and. And the arts. Architecture is not the. One of the top two or three, but I think it was the most advanced. Shocking. Then eventually a country like that. We’ll be led. By a thug. By a mass murder. It happened. And it can happen again. Which is why he was truly so outspoken. Despite efforts to silence me, whether it’s by sponsors or affiliates or audience members or so forth. And I want to thank those who stick with us here, because what I’m talking about is Americanism, the survival of our liberty. That’s the bottom line, isn’t it? It can happen anywhere. Including in an advanced society. You see what’s taking place in New York City? Under an Islamist mayor. You see what’s taking place in other parts of our country. We now have a restaurant in San Jose. We’re Jewish. Man is barely eating his food and he’s jumped by three guys and they beat the hell out of him. And he jumps up to try and fight back. Nobody intervenes to help them. VIDEO and people are yelling for them to get off of them. But they attacked him because he was on a cell phone speaking Hebrew to somebody. And the police. Sadly enough, there seem to be relatively disinterested in this. We see what’s taking place in Toronto, Canada, three synagogues. In the period of. A few days or a few hours or were sprayed with bullets. Three of them. Three of them. And so much more. It’s so much more. This isn’t just about Jews. It’s about Christians. It’s not just about Christians, about Americans. But we the people, red blooded Americans. 20 years ago, this was not going on and we would not have put up with it. Ten years ago, this was not going on and we would not have put up with it. Now it’s everywhere you look, isn’t it? Everywhere. I’ll be right back.
