Posted on 06/11/2018 4:41:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Mark Levin calling Trump's trade and economic advisers "idiots" in the first hour. Then he drones on and on about how having a trade deficit is supposed to be good for consumers and belittling other conservative talk radio hosts as "It depends" rather than discussing free markets. Does he not know that this is a negotiation tactic of Trump and the goal here is to make trade policies better for everyone involved? Of course he doesn't, because at heart he's a Never Trumper who is secretly hoping Trump fails so that some massive conservative movement will rise up and elect the same Republicans again who got us into this mess along with the Rats.
No mention of the fact of Canada's tariff's on our dairy products or how America has been taken advantage of for over three decades.
I deleted him from my Sirius XM app and will give his books away to Goodwill tomorrow.
You know what? I felt the same way listening to him on my way home. Leave work at 6, and he fills the time. Mark is great with the Constitution and history, but my experience has been he blows big ones when talking about economics.
Granted...in a pure world tariffs are not desirable. We’ve been jacked around by everyone else for so long it’s time to jab a stick in the opponent’s eye... hopefully temporarily.
Did not go past the first hour of him as my ride home was done, but holy poop...with an impending finish to the Korean War at hand he opens with tariffs?
What a douche.
I was done with him when he was pushing an ineligible Cubanadian for President.
Levin girl friend Son works for Cruz or Rubio, that all any of you need to know! He and Rush both was bashing Trump flast part of Primary! I give Rush credit he know Trump is doing right thing now! Rubio is a Jerk, they have enough trash from his closet he will never be elected out side Fl. Cruz as well. There closets are full of skeletons!
Mark lets his emotions cloud his logic sometimes. When Trump got into the row with the blonde bimbo, Levin was harping about Trump disrespecting women, when the bimbo was using opposition research to squash Trump's candidacy. The bimbo was supposed to be interrviewing Trump, not attacking based on sly research.
It took Levin way too long to get on the Trump bandwagon.
“Dealing with conservatives is like dealing with terrorists. You have to be right 100% of the time. If you are wrong once, you are dead to them.”
That’s not true. A lot of us conservatives are pragmatists. We’ve just gotten burned too many times to not be cynical about holding our noses and voting for some non-conservative moderate.
Some of us were very nervous that Trump was not a long-term ideological conservative. However, he’s performed more like a conservative than ANY president in my lifetime including Reagan.
He has kept his promises more than any politician I can recall.
Glad that Levin and people like myself were proved wrong and Trump is our president. I, unlike Levin, jumped on the bandwagon when it was apparent that he was going to beat Cruz.
The problem you are frustrated by is not conservatism; it is perfectionism which translates into ideological purism in politics. Sometimes this is a greater threat to success than the opposition.
Levin is still one of the good guys, but occasionally he gets big headed and pretends to himself that he has all the answers to everything.
He frequently complains about not getting credit for doing the heavy lifting when it comes to conservative radio, yet he fails to recognize when he is out of his depth. And such is the case when talking about Trump’s economic policy.
Trump is a very shrewd and accomplished business man. He does not need ivy tower theory when he has roll-up-your-sleeves and get the job done, hands-on experience.
My suggestion to the naysayers is to give him a chance to prove his methods will work. So far it seems they are being very successful.
Mark is a lawyer who thinks he’s an economist.
Henry Kissinger wrote a 2 volume journal of his time working for Richard Nixon. The main point I remember was his observation on how democrats wanted to negotiate with Communists. They always wanted to start negotiations by giving up something to show good faith. The communists viewed this as weakness and pushed and always wound up getting the better end of the deal.
Nixon and Kissinger went into negotiations with a completely different approach. They started out by making demands as opposed to concessions.
I think the President is using a similar strategy. No country is going to surrender an advantage over us unless they are faced with losing something.
And when you get down to it those other countries need us more than we need them so it makes sense for us to bargain tough with them.
Levin is to trade negotiations what the democrats were to negotiating with communists in the 70s.
It wouldn't take much to find audio of him about the time of the primaries to hear what he actually said about Trump.
I never listen to him now so I have no idea what's setting him off.
Did you watch Alex say “F*ck Trump! F*ck his family!” after the Syria strike? That’s all it took for me to never listen to Crazy Alex again...
Levin is extremely intelligent and I wouldn’t want to debate him but he has been deficient when it comes to understanding Trump.
I used to like Levin, but since Trump entered the political arena officially he has seemed to slip from the constructionist like Scalia that I once thought he was, to something else.
I recall how he recently misunderstood, or cared not to understand, a ruling penned by Gorsuch, even though the basis of its thinking was earlier formulated in a case penned by Scalia years ago. Unlike a constitutionalist, Levin was looking at the mere consequences of the ruling, and not its fidelity to the Constitution, or not.
Levin was looking ONLY, to his mind I believe, that the case, on the surface, involved an immigrant prosecuted for a crime; and ranted only about the powers the state (federal) had a right to in such matters.
Gorsuch was focused on the particular law the case was about and the Constitution, and found that law was trumped by Constitutional rights that the saw the law had so much wiggle room in it that it is merely men (in the executive) and not the law, that determines prosecution is warrented or not. Gorsuch asked, rightly, how can a law be said to be enforced justly with equal protection for all. If the terms of a law are too indeterminent there is no way it can obtain “equal” enforcement. In spite of that Levin ranted and ranted how Gorsuch was just “protecting” immigrants who commit crimes.
A Constitutional rules for the Constitution and not for some immediate political or legal outcome in particlar.
Maybe he never read Scalia’s thoughts on Roe V Wade either. Scalia was opposed to Roe but admitted it was not his opinion that states could not on their own have laws permitting abortion, but that it was not a federal matter.
Scalis found no Constitutional basis for either outlawing it or demanding it be legal. The Constitution was mute on it as far as Scalia thought. Oh the outcry I remember from some Conservatives when those comments came from Scalia. Maybe Levin was one of them at time. Like Gorsuch Scalia was a Constitutionalist for the Constitution,not for particular outcomes per se.
I can just hear Levin yelling “Now get on the damn phone!”
Remember, radio talkers aren’t philosophers or spiritual advisors, they’re a business and doing whatever it takes to get listeners is their stock in trade.
Face it Mark. A “Free Trade” Republican can no longer win 270
I’ve lived without Levin for many years. Life will go on.
Did you? Or did fakestream media tell you he said that?
Levin is not on the radio in my area, thus I don’t listen to his show.
But he is only tolerable in small doses anyway.
It turns out that Alex was right and the attack was predicated on faked videos.
Trump was wrong. Alex was angry that Trump went back on one of his promises, and under false pretenses at that.
He’s supported Trump from the very beginning, and still does.
But you go ahead and lap up whatever the fakestream presstitutes tell you to think. You’re obviously very good at it.
I bet you have a major trade deficit with your grocery store. I bet you buy a lot more from them than they buy from you.
He was pissed off because Trump went back on a promise based on a video that we now know for certain was faked.
I don’t blame him. I was too.
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