[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Securing borders and negotiating fair trade agreements is Marxism?

[nathanbedford]

Moments before this article concerning Mark Levin's views on populism appeared, I posted this reply:

Actually the whole structure of the Constitution was designed to frustrate populism which the framers thought of as mob rule.

Originally, the only direct voice of the people was to be had in the House of Representatives, the Senate being elected by state legislatures. The Supreme Court was not elected at all and the President of the United States was not directly elected either but electors were elected who under the Constitution were expected to exercise their judgment in passing on the populist will.

It is the genius of the Constitution to recognize the popular will but to confine its scope by a system of checks and balances and separation of powers which were frankly designed to frustrate the popular will. That is why we call it a Republic and not a democracy.

I don't will think you believe in the absolute power of the populist will. Are you ready to surrender your Second Amendment rights to bear arms to the Democrats when they gain a majority? I am not willing to surrender my First Amendment rights to Donald Trump if he should have populist wind at his back.

[Pelham]

Levin is getting desperate in his attempt to discredit the Trump camp.

[DesertRhino]

Get off the internet you big dope.

[SueRae]

I’m really tired of labels and others trying to force people into one box or another.

[A CA Guy]

Insanity everywhere. So many want to take their toy and go home.

The left and activists hate. The establishment GOP hates and supposed Conservatives are being exposed and are going nuts.

[DesertRhino]

This idiot. Yes, we are not a democracy, and we all know democracy is truly bad. On the other hand, he has ZERO respect for the wants and needs of an enormous majority of the population. He thinks this majority should shut up and do whatever he and his types say.
THAT is also statism Mark.

[20yearsofinternet]

This isn’t a zero sum game. If the gravy train suckling globalist stooges need a populist kick in the teeth (figuratively, before any snowflakes faint), then that’s what they need.

Ted Cruz is a globalist and will not fix any of the country’s serious problems. He will pontificate. We don’t need words, we need action.

[867V309]

Globalism IS NOT conservatism.

[Will88]

Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.

And Levin qualifies as one of the biggest offenders. Progressivism doesn't necessarily follow populism. But progressivism and socialism and communism and various hybrids of those three can and have followed monarchies, oligarchies, assorted royal families and privileged nobles who have lorded over the masses throughout history.

Whenever some upper class or nobility has been able to fashion a nation and its policies and institutions to give most of the wealth and benefits to a very few at the top, then all sorts of revolutionary uprisings or movements can result. The US has moved steadily in that direction and what Levin puts down as some unseemly form of populism is actually a very rational and predictable push back from those who are increasing left out of economic rewards produced by the US economy, squeezed out specifically by the the immigration and trade policies that have been pursued for the past fifty or more years.

Levin needs to get back to his law books and court cases.

[freeandfreezing]

"And that is the contrast between Donald Trump’s populism and Ted Cruz’s conservatism."

Let me see if understand this. We're supposed to be constitutional purists, focused on the ideas of the founders, but part of that is instituting a 16% VAT tax.

Why hasn't Sen. Cruz introduced legislation to advance his idea for a new tax?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Populism is socialism for white people, which is why "conservatives" whose "gxd" is European ethno-culture support it so fiercely.

No wonder some of them support out-and-out Communist "nationalist" groups such as the Irish republican groups.

[NeoCaveman]

Karl Marx was for free trade

http://mailstar.net/classwar.html

[odawg]

Levin is being deceitful. Dragging in previous eras with different dynamics and forcing them onto the present time is sophistry of the most devious kind. Levin has lost all his credibility in his mindless pursuit of his love affair with Cruz.

[NeoCaveman]

“But, generally speaking, the Protective system in these days is conservative, while the Free Trade system works destructively. It breaks up old nationalities and carries antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie to the uttermost point. In a word, the Free Trade system hastens the Social Revolution. In this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, I am in favor of Free Trade.” — Karl Marx February 1848

[aMorePerfectUnion]

History has moved on and Mark doesn’t understand what is happening.

[Travis McGee]

Sorry, Mark, you lost me on this one. Nobody else was plaudibly going to stop the immivasion. If it isn't stopped, we lose our country. That simple. The GOPes have had a generation to stop it, and they have been in bed with the cheap-labor plutocrats, and by extension, the cheap vote Rats. Time to throw them all out. If we don't stop the invasion, there'll be nothing to save.

[catnipman]

“Why Populism is Really Statism”

Yeah, Mark. And up is down, black is white, day is night, left is right, water is dry, dust is wet, and socialism is capitalism. Got it.

[livius]

It really is. The article that Peggy Noonan wrote for the WSJ a couple of weeks ago talked about how Trump followers felt that they were “unprotected” while other people on the left were “protected.”

That’s probably true in people’s minds, but the reality is that the only protection a citizen needs from the central government is military protection and perhaps the safety net. But now everybody wants the European model of an all-encompassing central state that makes all their decisions for them. The populist strongman promises to do this, put “protection” on their side, and that’s why they go for him.

The realization that he never does anything and is actually only interested in himself comes way too late. And then you end up like the unfortunate Chavez voters in VZ, who followed the siren song of a populist and went from a country that was one of the most prosperous and successful in Latin America to a place where people are fighting over who gets to buy a roll of toilet paper.

[Wpin]

Levin has gone as nutty as Beck...go back to sleep Levin!