August 26th, 2025

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the question media pundits keep asking: what is happening to the democrat party? What happened is that the people have learned a great deal about the Democrat Party and its ideologies over the years and they don’t like it. 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 have 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. The Democrat Party is struggling and failing because it stands for virtually everything most Americans reject. Also, the American people elected President Trump in a massive landslide, saving the country from four more years of destructive policies like open borders, anti-military degradation, and campus marches chanting “from the river to the sea.” We should not be complacent in the midterms. Also, the U.S. has offered to provide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), command and control, and air defense assets to support a European-led security plan for postwar Ukraine, including participation in an air shield and no-fly zone enforcement. This includes US aircraft, logistics, and radar to enable European troop deployments, while monitoring ceasefires via superior satellite capabilities. This is necessary. Later, Democrats support violent criminals, while Trump is quickly controlling crime in Washington, D.C., by enforcing the law with police backed by the National Guard. Finally, by 2040 Islam could surpass Judaism as the nation’s second-largest religion. America’s Christian foundations—rooted in individual liberty, personal responsibility, and devotion to God—are eroding due to silence and fear.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. It’s a profound time we live in right now, ladies and gentlemen, a truly profound time. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I say that in a good way. Oh, look at dark clouds. Don’t get me wrong. There are grave things happening. The Marxists and the Islamists. No question. Would the cancer, the poison that is anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. But the question the media pundits keep asking is what is happening to the Democrat Party? What is happening to the Democrat Party. This is a question that radio and TV host some 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 on Freedom of the press, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies. And expose the media’s bias and corruption in promoting the Democrat Party and 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, in the Democrat Party’s role in promoting it. In 2023, I wrote a book called The Democrat Party Hates America, my longest book. What sold hundreds of thousands of copies and expose 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. The written word 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 I’ve done 100 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 2023. Seven and a half weeks ago. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There have been profound statements here in 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, ten 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 de Tocqueville. Some have even gone beyond that. There was only one rush. There was only one de 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 for money. In fact, the least amount of money I receive is from books. I have no coauthors. 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 and 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, and Men in Black, my first book where some of my my friends helped do the research. You’ll notice in the acknowledgments 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 the 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 20 to 22 years. You can ask the people who I work with on Blaze, my producers, you can ask my producers at Fox and Life, Liberty and Levine how many people write your monologue, 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, Rick? 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 are 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. He grabbed the book and turned the page. There it is. And over the years, thousands of citations, thousands to give the original source material. The reason the Democrat Party. It’s 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 VII rejecting Merit and Individualism. That’s not Americanism. It’s the opposite. Secularism. Massive 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 read these books. You’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. But people say books are done. There’s so blasé. There’s so. Yes. Today. It’s you. You make the difference. What do I do? Three book signings and I 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 has 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. The 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.

Segment 2
We are much more informed. We are much more informed today than we were yesterday or the day before, aren’t we? Much more. And this is important. Free speech is the crux of the matter. And free speech, the purpose of which it’s manifold. But certainly one of them, one of the crucial purposes of which is for you and me and we to communicate with each other about what’s going on. It’s why I wrote in my book on power, these negative power entities, autocracies, the first thing they do is kill speech. Well, that’s what we need to use in the most aggressive way possible. When we come back, I want you to hear from Harry Anthony, CNN chief data analyst at CNN, about the Democrat Party. We’ve got a lot to cover, so stick with me. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
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, would have been finished. Finished. Four more years of the river to the sea. The marches in these colleges and universities. We would have been finished over. Of degrading the military. 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 drive me crazy. Some of the same people who four years ago, five years ago, were talking about the issue and with that midterm election. It 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. We want you to hear this from Anton. The chief data analyst. Over at CNN. He’s really the only shining light over there at CNN. Correct. Go. Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the Cracker 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. In all four 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 in the cycle, North Carolina. I couldn’t find the 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 at 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 that 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 second 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 of 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 one in terms of party registration? Are not in these key swing, these key swing states, these four key swing states? What are we talking about? Party registration margin gains since January one, 2025. Which party’s gain in Arizona? The GOP? How about Nevada, the GOP? North Carolina? The GOP? How about in Pennsylvania? We’ll make it four four for the GOP. The bottom line is this, Jessica, 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 case in Nevada, longer 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 about as good a position as the Cracker Barrel 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 to. We still have pockets. Of this. Of this dark cloud. That has the potential of metastasizing. When you look at New York City with Mandan, 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, how 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, reach 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. 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 our reintroduced words into the culture here that weren’t used. They were they were considered. Well. To cutting to hot. The words Marxist and communist. Reintroduced into our society through my book, American Marxism. And when I went on Fox, when I won 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 for 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. How they were trashing our country, but pretending they were America first. Identified them by name. We’re buying into the Islamist anti-Semitism, regurgitating and still do. I called them out by name when others refused, when others were fearful. We cannot be defined by them. Because they’re not providing you what principles and values and beliefs to consider to digest the debate. Bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism. It’s not who we are. Economic, social, cultural, Marxist. That’s not who we are. And I talked again and again. Name them. Now 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 by 3000 votes, meaning if 1500 votes had swung in his favor, he would have won Minnesota to the home state of the Democrat candidate, Walter Mondale. He almost won it. Peace through strength. And Reaganism. Donald Trump Make America Great Again Maga. Donald Trump Peace 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. Two union members. He received the endorsement of the Teamsters in 1980 and 1984. He understood. As our brother Craig Shirley will tell you. And there’s multiple books he’s written about Reagan, a great historian. The Reagan appealed. To all Americans. But especially. Blue collar Americans. Donald Trump. Won 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 and look at Trump in 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. But 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 one 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. Overwhelmingly. 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. So he’s 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.

Segment 4
Now, there are certain things you may disagree with President Trump is doing. There were certain things that people disagreed with when Ronald Reagan did them to. As a matter of fact, I know I lived through that, whether it was amnesty or. 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, who his 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’ll determine whether the nation survives or not. Look at a lot more to cover here. And we’ll move on from a more philosophical and sort of macro statements into what’s going on in the country today. But 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. I’ll be right back.