August 12th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here.  Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. You know, I want to underscore, Mr. Mrs. America, something I’ve been pointing out actually for several months now. And I am. I’m always impressed. With the number of people who listen to this radio show. And then do podcasts or post things. I’m very impressed with that, Mr. Producer. Then they deny they don’t listen to radio or excuse me, they deny they listen to radio. And there is a lot to discuss today, but I think this is important. And it’s as follows. The Democrat Party, its leaders. Multiple leaders. Hakeem Jeffries. Chuck Schumer. Others. Have said that. They want to expand the Supreme Court and put more members on the court. In other words, pack the court with ideologues that would destroy the independence and the purpose of the Supreme Court, turning it into, if you will, a Democrat politburo. We’ve talked about that. They say they want to eliminate the Electoral College because they really only want heavily populated blue states and really metropolitan areas to call the shots. We’ve talked about that to have only. They have said they wanted to pack the United States Senate by adding four Democrats. That is, making a city, the District of Columbia State and making it territory Puerto Rico, a state ensuring four more Democrat seats. We’ve talked. About that. They’ve said a lot of the things they want to do to the Constitution, haven’t they? So they want to deconstruct the Constitution, something we’ve talked about here on Fox and elsewhere. And they are constantly attacking the Constitution. They’ve talked about a wealth tax, which is unconstitutional, but the Democrat Party has talked about it and they’re they’re trying to institute it in California and other states as well. Elizabeth Warren has talked about it. She’s not alone. At all. A wealth tax. They went after ice for months. Ice. The TSA, the Secret Service, they weren’t paid. Because the Democrats said anything from we want to eliminate ICE to we want to change ICE to a variety of other issues they wanted to impose on ice, they would make ice basically impotent. They went after ice. We had open borders. Anybody who wanted to walk into the United States. When Biden was president, the Democrats controlled the Senate. And the house. Could walk into the United States and did walk into the United States millions, if not tens of millions. And most of them. Walk right in without vetting. Without vetting no borders. Minimal deportations. Well, of course, the Democrat Party during the George Floyd issue and before and beyond. Have attacked local police enforcement. They’ve attacked the cops relentlessly. They wanted to take their immunity away so anybody could sue them. Any any criminal could sue them. Any of these phony. Phony. Community groups could sue them. In other words, destroying policing. Democrats have been all for that, haven’t they? Democrats have slashed our military budget. The Democrats have pushed. Push men and women’s sports. They’ve pushed. Transitioning young people. Without parental notification. They’ve pushed all these things, have they not? The Democrats have pushed for a massive redistribution of wealth through the tax code. Climate change, which is the biggest farce, of course. They basically virtually bankrupted this nation. We’re two and a half trillion dollars in the Inflation Reduction Act. And the entire purpose of that so-called climate change is to take complete control of our economic system, is it not? The Democrats have all but destroyed our voting system, haven’t they? I don’t think. Why they oppose the Save America Act. They oppose it. But it is they it’s the Democrat Party that destroyed it. And in blue states, they’ve destroyed it up and down the local and state ballots. That’s what they’ve done. The Democrats have been calling for Medicare for All. They’ve been calling for Medicare for all. Remember that debate where all the Democrats raised their hands and said they believed in that. They’ve been calling for a government run, centralized health care. For at least a decade and more. For at least a decade and more. So what am I getting at here? When you really think about it. The difference between the Democrat Party and the Democratic Socialists of America is not that significant. Now they have some stupid candidates over there at the DSA that talk about abolishing Thanksgiving and things of that sort. They come out of the closet and they claim that they’re communists. They claim that they want to eliminate capitalism. But the Democrat Party, except for a relative handful of so-called moderates, and they’re in the minority. The Democrat Party has burst the Democratic Socialists of America. It’s the logical extension of the Democrat Party. You see what I’m saying? There are many Democrats at a very comfortable with the Democrat Democratic Socialists of America in Congress. And in state legislatures and in governorships. Some are not, but most are. That’s why they’re not attacking them. It’s not that they’re afraid of them. It’s that they’re sympathetic to so much of what they said because the Democrats have been saying it perhaps in a different way. You know, they’re more experienced. They’re more practiced. Their party regulars. But still, when I watch some of these Democrats on TV said, well, that’s not us, that’s I’m saying what a lot of it is you. Maybe not every. Every single piece of it. But a lot of it is you know, a lot of it is you. Ladies and gentlemen, I wrote a book called The Democrat Party Hates America, the longest book I’ve ever written, because they embrace so much of what we now call the Democratic Socialists of America. I wrote a book called American Marxism. Why? Because this is being taught throughout our schools or universities K through 12. It’s being pushed throughout our culture and it’s embraced by the Democrat Party. Now, they’re not going to call themselves communists or Marxists. But the Democratic Socialists of America, they have a candidate here there who does exactly that. Why? Because a lot of them are flunkies. They’re morons. They don’t know how to how to play the game. They don’t know how to play the game. But what is it fundamentally? Fundamentally? I’m not talking about some of the outliers. But what is it fundamentally that they disagree on Mr. Produce? Nothing. Nothing big. The Democrat Party wants to fundamentally alter our constitutional construct. They’ve told us this over and over again. They want to fundamentally alter our economic system. Now they’re out there, know we’re actually capitalists and so forth. Well, they have a funny way of showing it. They all go on about billionaires and oligarchs and so forth, when in fact they’re the authoritarians, aren’t they? Health care for all. Child care for all. Wiping out student loan debt. This is a Democrat Party agenda. Free college for everybody. That’s on their agenda, too. They ran on this just a few years ago. Amnesty, which is basically open borders. If they control all parts of the elected government, You know, for a while that’s exactly what they’re going to do. So there’s not a lot of difference. It’s not so much about the shoehorn you hear a lot about. It’s not that they’ve they’re suddenly, suddenly sort of reaching the same apex here. No. This has been the Democrat Party since Woodrow Wilson. This has been the Democrat Party for 120 years, 130 years. If you’ve read American Marxism, you know this. This is what they have preached. Maybe not in the particulars, but certainly on the big principle issues. This is why so many of them say, let’s get back to FDR. What they really mean is like, get back to Woodrow Wilson and let’s get back to American Marxism. They’ve never left it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
My point to you, ladies and gentlemen, is this. Of course, these rabid communists need to be confronted and dealt with. But don’t give the Democrat Party a pass. They may walk. With a more rabid element sprint. But the fact is they’re all headed in the same direction. And in some ways, those who who walk rather than sprint can be more dangerous. They could be. But they’re really one and the same. In many regards. One in the same. Headed in the same direction. I’ll give you an example. You have de Blasio, the former mayor of New York. Now, he never came out and said he was a communist. Not that I’m aware of. Did he, Rich? I don’t think so, no. We all referred to him as one. This guy, Chris Murphy from Connecticut, a real lowlife. He never refers to himself as economist. I mean, let’s be blunt. Most of these Democrats don’t. But I just went through with you in the opening. In some detail where they stand. Where they stand. They want to change major aspects. Change major aspects. Of our Constitution. This is something Woodrow Wilson had a problem with. He had a problem with the Constitution. He thought it was it was a problem for the radical left agenda. And I’ve written about that at great length, of course. And he talked about separation of powers being a problem. He attacked the Declaration of Independence. And of course. The key. The key is the founders said, as the framers said, is great minds like. Tom Soul says. And Antonin Scalia says, I’ve said many times the power checking power is the key. And so the Constitution is one check after another, after another after another, and then when you get to the end of it. We have the Bill of Rights. It was adopted later and. And the 10th Amendment emphasizes what? And emphasizes federalism. Whatever. Powers. We’ve got a sound of the sign of the federal government belong to the state. What’s the Ninth Amendment? The Ninth Amendment, to me is basically an encapsulation of the Declaration of Independence. Pretty much. That you have your own individual liberties apart from everything else. Apart from everything else. That’s very important. You never hear the Democrats talk like this. Never. Every because they don’t believe in. Now they’ll talk around it. They may even talk about it, but they’re not going to come out and talk the way the Democratic Socialists of America do. But in the end, that’s where we are with them. And would Woodrow Wilson. He said all these checks and balances. He said the body politic is like a single organ. Or the organs have to work together. They can’t be working against each other. You get it? They can’t be working against each other like one state or another, one city or another, or one branch of government or another. So he was applying communism to Americanism.

Segment 3
Oh, yeah. So I think it’s important that we understand what we’re dealing with folks. So we look at the election in Wisconsin. And the woman who is calling for the abolition of Thanksgiving but then mocked a. She lost by the skin of our teeth. But she lost. And to me, that’s a big story. She lost by the skin of our teeth. Not by a lot. Now, the guy that replaced her or beat her. I believe he’s from the Milwaukee City Council or something like that. Cranley or whatever. Crowley. That’s what I thought He. He says, look, it’s not about one or the other. We’re all a big ten here. All two. And that’s my point. You see, we conservatives, we don’t have big tents, but the neo-Nazis and the Klansmen. We don’t have big tents with the neo fascists and people like you. We don’t do that. We don’t have big tents for that. They do. They’re big tents for Plattner. They have big tents for a health because they’re power hungry, which is another book I wrote on power. But you get the point. They’re not going to throw these people out. They want. They don’t want to be in control. They want to keep control. That is the party establishment, the party regulars. So what I’m saying is to make it very simple. This I think this through with you. There’s a big overlap. There’s a big overlap between the Democrat Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. We have some people like Mark Penn, Julian Epstein, Doug Schoen, John Fetterman. These are people who legitimately. Legitimacy, reject the radicalism in the Democrat Party, not just the DSA, but in the Democrat Party itself. And they have before mind damage. They have before the movement. Became more well known. Before it became more well known. But let’s make no mistake about this. Elizabeth Warren. I mean, I could go through the whole Democrat Party list of congressmen and senators, the overwhelming majority of them. I’m very sympathetic to 80, 90% of what these people say, not the way they say it. Because they understand marketing is a big deal, but in reality they understand that you got to get your propaganda right. You got to get your slogans right. Don’t take on Thanksgiving. Don’t take on July 4th. Because then you’ll turn off. Way too many people, including rank and file Democrats who are not communists or communists line and don’t hate America and so forth. Many of them, if not most of them, are not that way. But. Many of these others in government are that way. They simply are that way. And this is my point when people say, well, and everybody says that we’ve got the what do they call it, the you, Mr. Producer, what do they call it? I forget something like that where the Marxist Islamists and the woke right mean. That’s true. But the Marxists and Islamists in the Democrat Party are mostly one in the same. The horseshoe. You know, there’s a phrase that goes out there and then everybody regurgitates it. As far as the woke right goes, nobody has spent more time pounding away at these bums, exposing these bums. From Tucker Carlson on down over the last 18 months than I on this show. And I’ve also explained that in many ways, their socialist light. That in many ways their view of government and interventionism in the centralization of government. It’s very much, very much akin to what the Democrat Party is arguing for, their view of national security and foreign policy, where they just call everybody neocons and warmongers. That sounds like the peace movement of the 1960s, doesn’t it? Pretty much. That sounds like Bernie Sanders, doesn’t it? So there’s a lot of overlap between the Woke Reich neo fascists. And the Democrat Party with its Marxists and Islamists. That’s true. And we’ve talked about the political spectrum here, have we not? I’ve always told you, it’s like a half circle. Again, we’ve done this for years. It’s a half circle. And you and I were at the bottom of the half circle. We’re not right wing. We’re not any wing. How can you be a constitutional conservative and be out on the right wing? Now, that’s somebody else’s propaganda and spectrum. It’s not the real one. It’s not ours. We’re in the middle. That doesn’t mean we are. In the middle when it comes to the battles over the Constitution and so forth, because we’re befuddled or something. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about when you look at a spectrum as it moves to the left. Liberal. Left wing extremist left wing. Marxists, Communists. When you move to the right, we’ve talked about this many times. Move to the right. You’re people who are essentialist interventionists and you move as you keep moving. So the neo fascists, and then they come together at the top. I have said this for years. And they overlap. And they overlap. Well, that’s what we’re facing. But the American people don’t want it. I truly don’t believe the American people. If we explain it to our fellow citizens, our family, our friends, our acquaintances. Not all of them, of course. You’re always going to get 30, 40%, you know, who are just crazy. And that’s always the case. But if we just lay it out there and explain it. One other thing. It’s mostly a footnote. I’ve said since the beginning of this war with Iran. That I don’t believe we need ground troops and I don’t believe the American people would support it. Neither party supports it. I mean, we just don’t have. The argument for it or the support for it. I said in March when we were discussing the issue of uranium, the president calls it nuclear does, but uranium, how do we get it? How do we get that uranium? Well, if you’re going to get the uranium, you need to use either Special Forces. For the 82nd Airborne and people who are skilled at this sort of thing and trained did this sort of thing. And we do have people who are. So you’d need to send them in to get it. There’s really no other way. And so what’s happening now is we have people who say the neocons want to send in ground forces. I said what neocons want is sending ground for it, but wanted to give us a long list and name them all because I see no movement for ground forces to Europe. I’ve never seen any movement for ground forces. I’ve never seen any bloc of individuals, neocons or not neocons calling for. You know, ground troops, 150,000 ground troops or 100,000 or 50,000. Certainly not here. But I don’t know who they are now. Maybe it’s some third rate somebody or other, but I don’t know who they are. Nobody prominent. I don’t even know if anybody public. So what happened? You remember Mac Gates? Remember, he had a resigned from Congress. Remember, he tried to cover up an ethics report. He did everything he could to prevent it from coming out. Remember all that? How he, dusty, deceived his constituents? Hell, he was spinning and lying about his conduct. The drug use. The underage girl that he took on some trips, apparently. Paying for sex. Just. Just the real sleazeball. Real sleaze. Somehow he has a TV show on some backwards network. As a journalist, mind you. So he jumps in because I never liked them. I thought that report should be made public. I opposed him for attorney general. I thought that was ridiculous. Of course, he had to withdraw because after 48 hours, everyone realized it was ridiculous. We’d never get confirmed. And he shouldn’t be confirmed. He has no character, no morality. And what he did was not something conservatives or constitutionalists or Republicans should support. Sometimes we have sleaze balls among us. He’s one of them. Well, he’s very angry about that. Still, he can’t get over it. It’s a psychological, mental thing. So he’s been all over the Internet morning, noon and night. Throwing up there that I have supported ground forces in Iran goes on and on and on and cherry picks this article or that article based on that that one occasion on Fox. When I encouraged the potential use of special forces of the 82nd Airborne, if it was our goal to remove this. Uranium because there’s no other way to do it. And I figured that out after researching the subject and seeing how we’ve used Special Forces in the past to do exactly that sort of thing. Even when we’ve had accidents and so forth. So that’s the great push for ARM. American ground troops in Iran use any just keeps repeating it and repeating because here’s what he knows most people who read the headlines. Or two sentences. They are not going to do the research themselves. But that’s what immoral sleaze balls do. So anybody who says there’s been this big push by neocons for ground troops are liars. That’s number one. Number two, I don’t know who they mean by neocons because they’re so damn ignorant. We’ve talked about what a neocon, a neocon is, a person who was a Democrat in the fifties and sixties, part of the seventies, and they switched over to the Republican Party because of the the Soviet Union. And of course, how aggressive the Soviet Union was. And it was a real threat. The communists were a real threat. So gates sides apparently with the communists, with the old Soviet Union, because he’s all hung up on neocons. There aren’t any more neocons. Most of those people have passed away, but they were big supporters of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is responsible for the destruction and the breakup of the Soviet Union. I happen to think those are good things. And by the way, without using any troops on the ground. But I have encouraged as the Reagan doctrine over and over and over again. That is the army, the Iranian people, the Kurds, as far as I’m concerned as well. Regardless of what Turkey thinks. To overthrow the regime in Iran. Even if it collapses economically from the pressure, you’re still going to need these these resistance group, these opposition groups to be armed and be set. They take over. So I embrace the Reagan doctrine. It was Reagan. Reagan. The reason why we had Democrats becoming Republicans and supporting the Reagan administration, neo conservatives, they call themselves like, that’s some kind of a dirty word. But I’ve been a Republican and a Reagan guy from day one. And I will compare my conservative credentials with anybody. Anybody. And not only that. There would never be an ethics report on me. Matt Gaetz has an ethics report that is chapter and verse. Well, what a. What a lowlife this guy is. And I hate to take time to get into this, but it’s necessary because it’s out there. It’s out there. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I find that a lot of these establishment politicians who’ve been in office and then they they resign in a huff. They resign because they’re forced out. When you look at Margery, traitor, gangrene, when you look at the Matt Gaetz’s of the world, people like that. That their characters do not change once they leave office. In fact, there’s a level of arrogance of self-importance. That they used to have when they were in Congress. And you can see there’s really they never go away. They never go away and they’re constantly angry. Angry at somebody. Angry at the system. Angry at the party. They’re angry. Because they really they really destroyed themselves. They they reached a pinnacle and they could go to the highest pinnacle. I don’t mean the presidency necessary, but maybe Congress. I mean a Senate. Her governorship. I mean, the case of Matt Gaetz, a lot of people thought he was a potential prospect, but they didn’t know that he was a sleazeball, that he had had sex with a minor, that he had done drugs, that they said, according to this ethics report. Anyway, I’ve posted it if you care about it. If you don’t, of course don’t. Don’t waste your time. But this guy has a TV show. He is. He’s. Furious. But he shouldn’t be furious with anybody else but himself. He did this to himself. Surely he had to know when he was doing these things that they were wrong. He just figured he wouldn’t get caught. But that’s not my fault. That’s not your fault. And he’s out there against the system, man. And he’s out there. You understand? Marjorie Taylor Greene. Not to my knowledge. He didn’t do all those things at Gaatz. That, of course. But she had her own issues. Her own issues. I’m not going to get into all of them. But now she’s. She’s moved hard left. She wants to be on the hard left media platform. She embraced traitor Tucker Carlson, who has his own long list of issues. Long list of issues. And he’s out there stirring the pot. He’ll run, he says, maybe for president. I don’t think I’ll get anywhere. But only if J.D. is not the nominee. These are truly weirdoes. But they all had the pinnacle of power. He did it on cable TV. She did in Congress. The other guy did in Congress. He had a bright future, except for the fact that he was self-defeating, self-destructive. And then they feel they have to destroy the conservative movement, the Republican Party, whatever it is. We’ll be right back.