On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire is much bigger than people realize, with 70% of Republicans voting for Trump making it a landslide in a true primary. Trump has received over 50% of the vote in both Iowa and New Hampshire now which is also a remarkable feat. The media, Democrats, and establishment Republicans are saying the same things about Trump as they used to about Ronald Reagan, who was a major success and had a landslide victory. The criticism of Trump is not new because the Republican establishment has always been against candidates like him and Reagan, although it is strange since Trump has already won an election. Also, President Biden’s foreign policy ideology is defeatism and surrender, which is worse than appeasement because he is literally arming our enemies. If Trump were president and our soldiers were attacked by the Houthis or anyone else, he would respond with overwhelming power because America First means America First, especially soldiers. Later, Qatar has a ton of oil underground and is second only to communist China in how much money they pour into our colleges and universities to turn out anti-Semitic protesters. Qatar funds Hamas and supports other terrorist organizations just like Iran does, meanwhile, Joe Biden extended a U.S. military base in Qatar for 10 years.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. Hello. 877-381-3811. All right. I’ll sum up last night’s election. Even though I summed it up before I went off the air. But I particularly like the analysis by my friend David Brody. He says this victory. In New Hampshire by Trump is much bigger. Much bigger than people realize. 70% of the Republicans who voted voted for Trump. That’s a landslide if you have a true Republican primary. It’s not a general election. It’s not supposed to be. It’s a Republican primary. But even more, the electorate was more moderate and liberal this time compared to 2016. By nine points, 64% of primary voters said they were not. Make America Great Again voters. Just 24% of primary voters were, quote, very conservative, unquote, compared to 52% in Iowa. Nikki Haley had the endorsement, the popular governor of New Hampshire. Uh, I think his name’s Sununu. No, no. Nikki Haley invested heavily in New Hampshire. Nikki Haley spent tons of time in New Hampshire. Nikki nearly hadn’t exactly had her two person race on supposedly her type of political terrain. And yet, despite it all. All these factors. Donald Trump won easily. Easily. He’s the first president since Nixon and one of the very few in the Republican primaries. To win New Hampshire three times in a row. New Hampshire is not. Alabama. It’s not Idaho. It’s New England. Last time I checked, the Republicans tend to be more moderate, more liberal. Not all, of course. Trump won 70% of them and he won New Hampshire significantly. Despite Nikki Haley’s best efforts. The Democrat Party best efforts. The ruling class and establishment’s best efforts and the billionaire’s best efforts. Not only that, Trump did something I don’t think any Republican candidate has done, certainly not in recent history. He got over 50% of the vote in Iowa and over 50% of the vote in New Hampshire. Look, I’ve been around a little while. I worked in the Reagan campaigns in 76 and 80. I’ve never seen anything like this. Now. It’ll never be possible. For Trump to win 49 states. There’s nothing to do it. Trump. The demographics have changed. It’s that simple. But, you know, I do research for this program. I’m all set to go, but I’m researching right up to the last second. And Mr. Produce will tell you this, and I found something very interesting. That I want to share with you. There was a piece done in New York magazine. And it was done eight years ago. On Reagan and Trump. Now, when it comes to personalities, Reagan and Trump couldn’t be more different. But there are many similarities. Many similarities. And the gentleman who writes this piece. Is Benedict Evans. Actually, that’s the photograph. I don’t know who writes this piece the way these. Oh, Frank Rich. Oh, good Lord. Frank Rich of all people. He loves me. I think he’s still around, but who knows? The Reagan archive shows there is no indication that the two men, Trump and Reagan, had anything more than a receiving line acquaintanceship. Trump doesn’t appear in the president’s voluminous diaries, but all the empty boasts that have marked Trump’s successful pursuit of the Republican nomination this that before he was elected in 2016, his affinity to Reagan may have the most validity and the most pertinence to 2016. To understand how Trump has advanced to where he is now and why he’s been underestimated in almost every step. And he still is today. Today, he’s underestimated why he has a shot at vanquishing Hillary Clinton in November. He wrote in 2016. Few roadmaps are more illuminating than Reagan’s unlikely path to the White House. One is almost tempted to say that Trump has been studying the Reagan playbook. But to do so would be to suggest that he actually might have looked at the book. Before the fierce defenders of the Iranian faith collapse into seizures at the bracketing of their hero with the crudest and most vacuous, says Frank Rich, court said left wing clown, but still getting to a point. Presidential Candidate Let me stipulate that I’m not talking about Reagan, the president, and drawing this parallel. About Reagan. The man I’m talking about Reagan. The Kennedy. The canny politician who, after a dozen years of failed efforts attended by non-stop ridicule, ended up leading the 1980 GOP ticket at the same age. Trump is now 69. That was back then, of course, and who, like his present day counterpart, was best known to much of the electorate up until then as a B-list show business personality. Okay when you read something like this. You’re not reading it because you think the author is a nice guy. Because this author is not. But there’s something illuminating in all the B.S. and that’s what I’m getting to. So stick with me. It’s true that Reagan, unlike Trump, did hold public office before seeking the presidency, though he’d been out of government for six years when he won. But Trump would no doubt argue that his executive experience atop the August Trump Organization more than compensates for Reagan’s two terms in Sacramento. Remarkably, though, the Reagan model has proved quite adaptable both to Trump and to our different times. Trump’s tenure at an NBC reality show host is comparable to her stint hosting the highly rated but disposable General Electric Theater. For CBS in the Ed Sullivan era. Trump’s embarrassing turn as a supporter, as a supporting player in the 1990 Bo Derek movie. Yeah, I told you, the guy’s an ass, but stick with me. There’s no more egregious than Reagan starring opposite a chimp in Hollywood. Bedtime for Bozo. While Trump has owned tacky, bankrupt casinos in Atlantic City, Reagan was a mere casino surf the emcee of a flop nightclub revue featuring barbershop harmony. And he goes on. So he hates Reagan. Paige Trump and of course hates all of us for supporting both. I’m trying to make a point that’s very important here, though. And I want you to remember that Reagan won two massive landslides. They were said he couldn’t win. The Republican establishment tried to stop him. How would he appeal to moderates? How would he get Democrats? But Reagan’s and Trump’s opposing styles belie their similarities of substance. He writes. Both have marketed the same brand of outrage to the same angry segments of the electorate face the same jeering press attracted some of the same battlefield allies Roger Stone, Paul Manafort. Phyllis Schlafly offended the same elites, including two generations of Bushes, outmaneuvered similar political adversaries and espoused the same conservative populism built broadly in the pillars of jingoistic nationalism, nostalgia, contempt for Washington, and racial resentment again. You have to read past the man’s race baiting and so forth. Stick with me. They’ve even enjoyed the same wisecracks about their unnatural chauffeurs. Governor Reagan does not dye his hair, said Gerald Ford at a Gridiron dinner in 1974. He’s just turning prematurely orange. The Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan Let’s Make America Great Again is one word longer than trumps. The world. The word reflects a contrast in their personalities the evacuation versus the autocratic, but not in message. Reagan’s epoch apocalyptic theme The empire is in Decline is interchangeable with Trump’s. Even if the Gipper delivered it with a smile. Craig Shirley, who happens to be a dear friend of mine, has a brand new book coming out, and I can’t wait to have him on my program. Shirley long time Republican political consultant and Reagan acolyte. He’s he’s a tremendous historian. Has written authoritative books on the presidential campaigns of 76 and 80. That serve as correctives to the sentimental revisionist history that would have us believe that Reagan was cheered on as a conquering hero by GOP elites during his long climb to national power. And this is the nub of the matter in America. Do you hear the right’s triumphalism in recent years? You’d think that only smug Democrats were appalled by Reagan, while Republicans quickly recognized that their party, decimated by Richard Nixon and Watergate, had found its savior. Grassroots Republicans who ran Reagan have been courting for years with speeches, radio addresses and opinion pieces beneath the mainstream media’s radar. We’re indeed in his camp. But aside from a lone operative, John Sears surely wrote, quote, The other major GOP players, especially Easterners and moderates, thought Reagan was a certified Yahoo! Got it. This is what you’re hearing now about Trump. By his death in 2000 for a quote, Right. Surely they would profess their love and devotion to Reagan. They claimed they were there from the beginning of 1974, which was a load of horse manure. Even after his election in 1980, Shirley adds, Reagan was never much loved by his own party leaders. After GOP setbacks in the 1982 midterms, a Republican National Committee functionary taped a piece of paper to her door, announcing the sign up for the 1984 Bush for President campaign. Shirley’s memories. I have to close my left eye to read this, but stick with me. Chile’s memories are corroborated by reportage. Contemporaneous with Reagan’s last two presidential runs. A poll in 1976 found that 90% of Republican state chairmen judged Reagan guilty of, quote, simplistic approaches, unquote, with, quote, no depth in federal government administration and, quote, no experience in foreign affairs. It was little different in January 1980, when a U.S. News and World Report survey of 475 national and state Republican chairman found they preferred George H.W. Bush to Reagan. One state chairman presumably spoke for many when he told the magazine that Reagan’s intellect was called thinner than spit on a slate rock, unquote. As Rick Perlstein writes in The Invisible Bridge, the third and latest volume of his epic chronicle, the rise of the conservative movement. He says both Nixon and Ford dismissed Reagan as a lightweight. Barry Goldwater endorsed Ford over Reagan in 76, despite the fact that Reagan’s legendary speak on behalf of Goldwater’s presidential campaign on in 1964, a time for choosing was the biggest boot boost, rather, that Goldwater had received. Only a single Republican senator and this Republican senator was, in fact, a dear friend and mentor of mine. Paul Laxalt of Nevada signed on to Reagan’s presidential quest from the start, a solitary role that has been played in the Trump campaign by then, excuse me, by former Senator Jeff Sessions. What put off Reagan’s fellow Republicans will sound very familiar. He proposed an economic program of 30% tax cuts, increase military spending, a balanced budget whose math writes these lefties was voodoo and then some. He prided himself on not being a part of the Washington establishment, unquote, and mocked Capitol Hill’s buddy system and its collusion with the forces that have brought on us our problems the Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business and big labor, Reagan said. He kept a light campaign schedule, regarded debates as optional, wouldn’t sit still to read briefing books, and then either improvised his speeches are worked off index cards that contained anecdotes and statistics gleaned from Reader’s Digest and the right wing journal Human Events. He says, Well, Reagan was actually quite the intellect. He was incredibly well-read and often did speak contemporaneously. But that aside, that’s not my point. Like Trump. But unlike most of his and Trump’s political rivals, Reagan was accessible to the press and public. His spontaneity and give and takes with reporters and voters played well, but also gave him plenty of space to disgorge fantasies and factual errors so prolific and often outrageous that he singlehandedly made the word gaffe a permanent fixture in American blood. So it goes on and on and on, you see. And I open the show reading this to you by a radical left wing Democrat. Maybe Star writes for The New York Times, but he’s writing here in the left wing New York magazine. To demonstrate to you. That many of the substantive. Efforts to kill Trump. Many of the tactics and techniques used to trash Trump by the Republican establishment, by the media. We’re, in fact, used against Ronald Reagan. He couldn’t win. He. He appeal. He can’t appeal to the moderates. He can’t appeal to the Democrats more. When I return.
Segment 2
Let’s continue this a little bit and only have a minute this segment, but there’s much more. That’s a very, very interesting. You’ve heard me say here over and over and over again. They keep bringing back these establishment ruling class commentator. All across the board. The Bush people never go away. Never go away. The McConnell people never go away. The media promotes Susan Collins today. They’ll promote Mitt Romney. They’re fully behind Nikki Haley. The things they say about Trump, the way they seek to undermine Trump. Much of it is very, very similar to what they tried to do to Reagan. So stick with me. I’m not done. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Let’s keep going. Let’s keep going. The Republican elites of Reagan’s day. Right. Frank Rich in 2016 at the liberal New York Magazine. Was blindsided by Reagan as their counterparts have been blindsided by Trump. Though Reagan came close to toppling the incumbent president at the contested Kansas City convention in 76, the Ford forces didn’t realize they could lose until the devil was at the door. A President Ford committee. Shoot. Warren Folks, my computer. Stick with me. I’m almost there. Can’t wait for Amos to produce here. Well, was a President Ford Committee campaign statement had maintained that Reagan could not defeat any candidate the Democrats put up. Got that? Reagan could not quote, could not defeat any candidate the Democrats put up because his core constituency is much too narrow, even within the Republican Party, unquote. You hear this, Mr. Do exactly what they’re saying today about Trump. And because he lacked, quote, the critical national and international experience that President Ford has gained through 25 years of public service. Now, in Gerald Ford’s memoirs, written after he lost the election to Jimmy Carter, he wrote that he hadn’t taken the Reagan threat seriously because he, quote, didn’t take Reagan seriously, unquote. Reagan, he said, had a, quote, penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems, and he stubborn insistence that he was always right in every argument. Even so, a Ford campaign memo had correctly identified one ominous sign during the primary season. A rising turnout of Reagan voters that were not loyal Republicans or Democrats and were alienated from both parties because neither takes a sympathetic view toward their issues. Now, you know, I’m taking time to read this to you. To these voters. The disdain Reagan drew from the GOP elites was a badge of honor during the primary campaign. New York Times columnist William Safire reported with astonishment that Henry Kissinger speeches champion Gerald Ford and attacking Ronald Reagan were helping Reagan, not Ford. A precursor of how attacks by Trump’s establishment adversaries have backfired. 40 years later, and I might add. By the phony charges. The phony trials. It’s the same instinct. It’s the same conservatives. Conservatives. Not necessarily Republicans. Much of the press was slow to catch up to a typical liberal establishment take on. Reagan can be found in Harper’s, which called him Ronald Duck, the candidate from Disneyland, that he’d come to be deemed, quote, a serious candidate for president. Quote, The magazine and tone was a shame and embarrassment for the country. But some reporters who tracked Reagan on the campaign trail sense that many voters didn’t care if he came from Hollywood, if his policies didn’t add up, his facts were bogus. Again, this is from a leftist who spent decades attacking conservatives. If he was condescended to by Republican leaders or pundits. As Elizabeth Zhu and other leftists of The New Yorker observed in 1976, his appeal, quote, has to do not with cop, and it’s a governing, but with the emotion he invokes. It’s also important to hear what the left wing media said when they say the same thing today. The same types of criticism today. Again, I’m not talking about personalities. They couldn’t be more different. But when it comes to their upstart campaigns, their outsider status, their substance. And I’ve said before on this air, on this broadcast. Donald Trump is the most conservative president since Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump. Is more conservative than Richard Nixon was. Donald Trump is more conservative than George H.W. Bush was. Donald Trump is more conservative than George W Bush was. And he does it by common sense. He reaches these conservative conclusions. Anyway, let’s get back to this. As she put it, Reagan lets people get out their anger and frustration, their feeling of being misunderstood and mishandled by those who have run our government, their impatience with taxes and with the poor and the weak. Their impulse to deal with the world’s troublemakers by employing the stratagem of punch in the nose. Again, this is from the usual elitist. A reporter perspective, but that’s exactly what’s taking place against Trump. The Republican establishment. The commentary on how you can’t reach moderates. He can’t reach Democrats. I keep hearing our friend TARLOV say that on Fox. Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s New Hampshire. I’m looking at the numbers. I’m just seeing things differently as somebody who has a different perspective than all these. And it’s not just liberals, some conservatives, so-called moderates. It’s hosts its guests. It’s inside the Beltway types. It’s forever, you know, campaign hangers on. They’re all saying the same thing. That they said about Reagan. The power of that appeal was underestimated by his Democratic foes in 1980, even though Carter had to run a populous and attract campaign and attracted some Wallace voters by beating Ford in 1976. By that time, he was up for re-election. Carter was an unpopular incumbent presiding over the Iranian hostage crisis, gas shortages and a reeling economy. Yet surely the Democrats would prevail over Ronald Duck. A strategic memo by Carter’s pollster Patrick Caddell, who, by the way, became a Trump supporter. Passed away a few years back was really a good guy. He became a Trump supporter. And by the way, he became a. Support of Ronald Reagan, obviously, after his death and so forth. But he understood what a great president he was. A strategic memo by Carter’s pollster Patrick Caddell laid out the campaign against Reagan’s obvious vulnerabilities were bullet points. Is Reagan safe? Shoots from the hip over his head? What are his solutions? But it was the strategy of Shadow’s counterpart in the Reagan camp, the pollster who was brilliant. Richard Worthman. They carried the day with the electorate. Voters wanted to, quote, follow an authority figure. He theorized, a leader, a leader who can take charge with authority, return a sense of discipline to our government and manifest the willpower needed to get this country back on track. Or at least the leader from outside Washington rates rich like Reagan and now Trump, who projects that image. You’re fired. Whether he has the ability to deliver or not. We clearly did. It’s as I’ve told you before, this reference to Hitler was used against cold water. It was used against Nixon. It was used against Reagan. It was used against both bushes and now it’s used against Trump. And the way that Democrats do this is, they say. Trump is no go water. They tried to destroy Goldwater, but now they love him. Of course. Trump is no, Nixon meant Nixon was bad, but he wasn’t as bad as this. I mean, Watergate pales in comparison. They trash George H.W. Bush. Now they love him. They despise George W Bush. But now George W Bush is he’s he’s he’s swell because he’s buddies with Obama and Clinton, you know. And they use Romney and they use McCain. And it’s all. To attack Trump. This is how they do it. Now, this is from the hand, the radical left wing Democrat dressed up. As first a journalist and now an opinion writer. Honestly, I don’t even know where he is today because a lot of New York Times subscribe for short. But it’s almost .4.4., isn’t it? The arguments you heard last night, the arguments you hear today, the arguments you heard before last night. That Trump cannot win. He cannot broaden the base. That it’s this small group of very conservative people up against the establishment. That’s right, MAGA. And they’ve a problem with this magazine, even though it means Make America Great again, they never say what it means. They just use MAGA. Now you know the full story. That what’s happening to Trump is a new. Ronald Reagan was the greatest vote getter. Of any Republican in American history, any. And one of the greatest vote getters of all time. He won because he was a principled conservative who embraced Americanism. Whose shadows showed his love for our country on his sleeve. Who was not afraid to attack his own party leaders and the Republican establishment. Not afraid to attack. Washington, D.C. itself. And big government. Trump does the same thing. Same thing. Of course there are differences. But fundamentally. What’s being done to Trump. Was done to Reagan. By many of the same people and many of their progeny. It is sad to see the National Review in the Wall Street Journal and even elements in the New York Post. Try to destroy Trump as well. But there are even conservatives who didn’t trust Reagan, didn’t think he would get elected. I always laugh at this Rove situation where he. He claims, and Craig Shirley calls him and the rest of them out. Craig is just terrific. And he was involved heavily in the Reagan campaign. He was involved in trying to stop Reagan in 1980. He was in Texas. He was a Bush guy. That’s fine. But why lie about it? Says after the primaries over, he was thoroughly involved, had some leadership positions, but the people there who actually were involved. In supporting Reagan in 76. Canadian had real leadership positions. Say that’s not correct. Chris Christie was never a Reaganite, ever. Mitch McConnell was never a Reaganite, ever. Every. Most of the Republican establishment types were never Reaganite. The Romney family was never Reaganite. Period. So I just want to remind you of these things. I just want to remind you of the tactics, the games, and I am here to give you context and perspective. They basically say the same things about Trump today. I mean, apart from, you know, the language and that sort of thing, as they said about Reagan before, unelectable in the end, the amazing thing that’s even different in Trump’s case, he already won an election and they’re still saying he can’t. And I know people say that Trump is obsessed on this 2020 election and the fraud and so forth. And he probably does talk about it too much. But let’s not pretend there wasn’t fraud. There was massive fraud. It was institutionalized. Why else would 300 Democrat Party radical ambulance chasing slip and fall lawyers be going into court? Particularly in battleground states, to change. Electoral rules. They were able to change it with Democrat state judges, many of whom were elected, and the others were appointed by Democrat governors. Now that’s a form of corruption, is it not? That’s a form of fraud, is it not? Of course it is. Particularly where the federal Constitution says it’s the state legislature, in so many words, that make those decisions, although the Supreme Court court’s very skeptical of others. Who cares what it says? And there’s no question that when you eliminate voter ID, there’s no question when you eliminate signatures and dates from absentee ballots, there’s no question when you have the equivalent of mailboxes unsecured. Unmonitored. Where people can drop ballots. And there’s no question that when you have voter harvesting, which is actually collecting ballots and counting those votes after the election is over, there is simply no question that all that is done not to advance the franchise of voting, not to increase voting by people who have a legal right to vote, but it is all intended to advance. The power, the electoral chances of America’s autocratic party, the Democrat Party, and anybody who tells you differently is a liar. A contemptible liar. And they’re going to try it again. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Now, I do want to be clear about something. Of course, there’s not an exact parallel. And the parallel I’m drawing is really about the media, the establishment, and how they treat two outsider candidates who are quite successful. And I want to be clear about something else. I don’t always agree with Donald Trump on the issues. I often do. But I don’t believe. That conservatives should be trying to sabotage him. And sabotaged his election. When you look what we’re up against in what’s going on in this country. We’re in dire straits. And I must say, Donald Trump four years in office was a superb president substantively and a. Impeached him twice. They launched a criminal investigation. They were constantly going after his family, even under those circumstances. And of course, today, the circumstances are even worse than when Reagan was running because they have indicted him on 91 felony counts in five different or four different jurisdictions. Most of them are Democrat jurisdictions. The charges are bogus. I don’t care what anybody else has to say. They can defend it if they wish. I choose not to because I know what I’m talking about. But there are some things I disagree with them on. And you said something today or did about Taiwan, and I want to share that with you. You should see the racist attacks on Tim Scott all throughout the radical left Democrat Party, corrupt media and their surrogates like media hate. How they’re mocking him. They’re mocking him because they don’t know. Tim Scott is always out ways, always emotional, passionate reverend like when he speaks, when he’s when he was on the campaign trail. So they’re mocking him as a black man. And yet, Joy Reid and her ilk are the lowest of the low lives. They’re America’s bigots, but they save their hate for Tim Scott.