Hillary Pledges Open Borders, Levin Responds with Attack on Trump’s Tariffs

Breitbart.com ^ | 14 May 2016 | Julia Hahn

[Rockitz]

Last week, Donald Trump met with the family members of Sarah Root, a beautiful, beaming 21-year-old girl slaughtered by an illegal alien in Nebraska the day after graduating from college with 4.0 GPA. Later that day, Trump warned, “Crooked Hillary Clinton wants completely open borders.”

Indeed, a review of Clinton’s campaign website reveals that her immigration plan is even more radical than that of Barack Obama, who completely suspended enforcement of America’s immigration law and printed hundreds of thousands of work permits for illegal aliens.

However, a much more pressing topic seems to have triggered the passions of radio host Mark Levin who, along with Jamie Weinstein, is one of the most vocal members of the #NeverTrump movement. In the course of two days, Levin penned two lengthy denunciations of Trump’s trade platform and Breitbart News’s coverage of it.

In a story featured on this website, Levin emotionally warns conservative Americans that Trump’s effort to boost American manufacturing represents a kind of existential threat to conservatism. Levin is seemingly unconcerned with the prospect that his energetic Trump-bashing could help place Hillary Clinton in a position to add millions more Third World migrants to America, who almost certainly will not support Levin’s vision of smaller government conservatism nor tune in to his radio show where he espouses the same.

[knarf]

Levin has ceased to be, imo

ALL pundits have their time and Mark's is over

It is the way of life .... kids grow and leave home and papa has control only because the kids may have sentimental attachment ... but really ... papa has ceased to be a true "controlling" element

It is what it is

I don't hate Mark ... he's valuable SC wisdom that we could sure use now

Resurrect you MIB books, Mark

[amnestynone]

Our “conservative” leaders are idiots.They simply do not understand the dangers for this country and on conservatism in general that is poised by open borders. Conservatism does not work for conservatives. The main reason is the C of C country club elite. They are not really conservatives but corporatists. They are also feckless,duplicitous and treacherous.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I no longer listen to Levin or Rush

[Yossarian]

Free trade works, between individuals, between states and even between countries.

This completely ignores a couple of critical facts:

1. Not all countries have the same human rights standards. Economically helping out those countries diminishes human rights throughout the world. (See: China.)
2. Not all countries share foreign policy goals. Economically helping out those countries is suicide for your foreign policy. (See: China.)
3. Not all countries play fairly with currency and other effective trade rules. (See: China.)
4. Not all countries' citizens want to import your goods, but they are happy to only export their goods. (See: Japan.)

[Vince Ferrer]

Levin is being consistent. Free trade works, between individuals, between states and even between countries. This tariff stuff sounds good to the economically illiterate but it's bad. While the damage of international trade is concentrated and obvious to the makers of widgets, the effect of cheaper goods coming in means that everybody else has more money left over to spend on other things. Free trade is the greater good. Not to mention once you start a trade war the other side hits back.

Can you name any free trade agreements between the US and anyone else that doesn't include tariffs, subsidies, or market protections for certain markets or industries? These agreements are always 1000+ pages long, it would seem a real free trade agreement would be a few paragraphs long.

[ScottfromNJ]

“Free trade works”

What exists today isn’t free trade.

[JBW1949]

Mark Levin has become irrelevant....

[lodi90]

Obamatrade is over 5,000 pages long. Real “free trade” does not need a 5,500 page agreement.

[stratboy]

Since when has Markhole Levin become an expert in International Trade? I though he was a loud mouth lawyer that is still riding Ronald Reagan’s coat tails and bores his audience with his long winded legal explanations. I bet he never would have thought in a million years that he would be supporting Hillary Clinton. Then again, maybe that was his plan for ratings and job security.

[stratboy]

Levin has become James Carville with stubble...a sputtering, raving lunatic

An uglier version. And I never thought that was possible,

[Freedom56v2]

I briefly heard Levin yesterday, first time in months, although I’ve seen references to his behavior on FR since.

Yesterday, he was completely irrational, filled with hatred, thinking he was making some sort of points but I quickly saw he was searching for any loose pretext from which to launch a tirade against Trump.

For his sake, I hope he gets himself straightened out.

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I have thought he was corrupt—being paid off by GOPe with the book deal, the TV deal, and the ConservativeReview website. Perhaps he is just mentally ill.

I have gone from being angry and disgusted with him to having pity for him. I listen and laugh—he is so biased and petty. Such a sad little man with an extremely inflated opinion of his power and reach.

That said, I will never spend any more money on his sponsors or his (and his dad’s) books.

[Jim from C-Town]

Look up computer chips, voluntary vehicle import restrictions and any number of Reagan programs that restricted trade in order to protect American industries.

Reagan was no free trader and unrestricted access to America’s vast consumer market while shutting your own market to American goods is not a Conservative cause.

I am damn well sick of open borders, free trade jack wagons proclaiming that those of us who believe in REAL Republicanism, Tariffs, fair trade, America first, strong borders as rule of law and restricted immigration are somehow not conservatives!

[Jim from C-Town]

They don’t understand it because they don’t have to live with it. Mark Levin like the swells at National Review are all millionaire pundits with six & seven figure publishing deals and McMansions in the DC and NYC exurbs.

They don’t have to have their precious snowflakes in ‘racially diverse’ classrooms swarming with third world illiterates. They don’t have to compete with the sub-par under the table slave wages that third worlders have established as proper recompense for a days work.

They are a breed apart. Their conception of immigration is Bartolo Colón pitching for the Mets or that nice lady Maria who cares for the children at a low wage.

[Islander2]

A few media people some time ago referred to Levin as “THE GREAT ONE” Well, it went to his head and he crawled out on a limb on this Trump candidacy and knows when Trump wins it will be a bitch having to crawl back and eat his words. We will not forget.

[ConservativeMind]

Hey, Little Levin, tariffs are what our country lived off before the income tax. Up to 95% of the Federal budget from the late 1700s through 1910s was covered by them.

Is it better to tax income or foreign-made goods? Which is the better, healthier, penalty on our country? Do remember society pays unemployment, welfare, and crime costs for people not working.

Levin (Bueller)? Levin (Bueller)?

[ripnbang]

I know...since when is it un-Republican,or un-Conservative to want to put America first?

[dsc]

F. Lee Levin, how we respected you. But events have taken us somewhere that you, sadly and surprisingly, don’t appear equipped to go.

Why can’t you understand that survival is the top priority?

[Lagmeister]

This tariff stuff sounds good to the economically illiterate but it's bad

I'll try to ignore your stupid slam and educate you a little: We don't have free trade - we have lopsided ripoffs where China hangs costs and strings on us while shipping duty free to us. Why do you think we have such trade deficits? That should tell even the most mind numbed individuals that we don't have free trade.

Moreover, the cost of goods is not cheaper coming into our country. Check the price of an IPhone lately? Hey! How about those Nike shoes there guy - or better yet... what a bargain those 90 dollar Polo shirts are, right?

Granted, we don't have a trade war right now because we are simply hapless and not fighting back.

And finally, try to explain away the half million jobs created each month when Reagan was slapping all those tariffs! Even Levin really knows better about trade. Problem for him is that he is just a globalist stooge and doesn't really care about the average person in this country... Reagan surely did.

[NTHockey]

I thought that it was the distance between one’s head and a$$, while in a vacuum.

[dsc]

“Free trade is the greater good.”

Perhaps it is, if it is reciprocal. Our auto industry didn’t lose to the Japanese auto industry; our auto industry lost to the entire might of the nation of Japan.

Their initial goal was not to make a profit in the US market; it was to expand market share. And how could they operate at a loss? Subsidies. Outright transfers of funds, tax breaks, and higher prices at home.

Trump isn’t badmouthing free trade; he’s saying that he’s tired of us getting raped, and so am I.