Posted on 03/17/2016 6:47:15 PM PDT by MLL
On Thursday night, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin took on the rising tide of "populist nationalism" with a history lesson.
Populism, Levin explained, is really just progressivism. The populist movement in America was the forerunner of the progressive movement, and both populism and progressivism share the same disdain for constitutionalism that conservatives reject.
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“And I don’t think the original Populists were protectionists anyway.”
Who do you include in the original populists? Those who opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the central government too much power? Men that included George Mason and Patrick Henry?
Trump is absolutely more of a political unknown. But he has great leadership and media skills and is obviously a traditional patriot.
Trump and Hillary will be the nominees. Cruz...and the rest of us...need to make peace and give Trump the ability to win from the right.
“Levin is not desperate.”
No, but he is a POS!
You are the dope who wants to vote for the fake Trump
Watch this and tell me Trump is fake. He has been saying the same thing for 40 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxf1XmVZ9qY#t=37
It goes without saying that we need to close our borders. (Trump and Cruz would both do this, of course.) If we don't recover nationalism, we are doomed.
OTOH, patriotism is no guarantee that we will not ruin ourselves through stupid politics. (Many of our most ardent patriots are ignoramuses. A couple of years ago, I met a redneck Democrat who loved Obama--and he explained that the main reason why he liked Obama so much is because Obama is so patriotic, so pro-military, and so pro-firearms.)
Reagan slapped a tariff on Japanese motorcycles. They were dumping their motorcycles in the US at below cost to drive Harley out of business. After that, they intended to jack up the price of their motorcycles.
Whenever the US oil industry gets going, the Saudis pump and drive the price down until all the US manufacturers go out of business. Then they shut down the spigot and jack the price again. If you just say, "I support free trade," other nations will eat your lunch. The simplest way, and one which Japan used a lot, was to have the government funnel money to companies so they could sell at a loss until competitors went out of business.
OTOH, just throwing up tariffs allows US manufacturers to get frikkin lazy and form a cartel (Ford, GM, Chrysler before the Japanese and Germans got in.)
People negotiating trade deals have to be sharp, and they have to be people who won't sell their country down the river for a pitifully small bribe. You can't say, "I'm for free trade" and walk off, expecting everyone else to play fair.
I suppose you mean when he came out and blamed Cruz for the violence of the Chicago mob shutting down his rally?
Oh. Wait......
The rush to pre-empt the primary process is suspicious to me.
If Trump realizes the necessary delegates by June, that is plenty of time.
I suspect Trump supporters know that Cruz is more of a threat than they want to engage.
The Constitution needs to be defended one way or the other and we are running out of time.
If that means we need a General Grant so be it. I will buy the whiskey.
Oh, please, Mark, give up.
Yes, and W. put a tariff on steel for the same “dumping” reason.
No one’s suggesting putting a tariff on Saudi oil though, are they? People don’t support tax increases when they see it affect them directly in what they’re buying, as opposed to trickling down from a manufacturer’s supply chain.
I say let the market deal with it. We don’t need the government to run a command economy from their ivory tower constantly trying to put their thumb on the scale to make things come out the way a certain interest group thinks it should. Sometimes competitors will play rough and get the upper hand on us. That doesn’t mean we should whine and cry to daddy and ask for him to bail us out. If that bail-out is right, then what was wrong with the Bush bank bail-outs? We just have to look for another opportunity if our competitor out-competes us. If they really kill our industry and then jack up prices, then we’ll just start our industry up again. When gas prices got too high here, we started fracking. And that’s what led to the Saudi dumping. In the end, the consumer’s going to make out pretty well. Either they’re getting cheap, dumped products, or the domestic industry is ratcheting itself up to counteract foreign gouging. Getting deals on both ends like that makes up for the higher bump up in price in the middle.
The same applies to domestic stores. If stores want to do “loss leaders,” they’re selling below cost. But the last thing anyone needs is for the government jackboots to raid their store and start dictating what prices they should charge. It’s the same logic against the auto industry bail-out...we don’t need to be afraid of the creative destruction. Some businesses will die out and others will be reborn from the ashes. We don’t need big daddy constantly trying to save us from every little amount of pain that happens in the marketplace.
Mark Levin,
Your obsessive hatred and rejection of Donald Trump, has driven you insane, or drooling with intellectual rabies.
Your candidate cannot win. Trump can NOT be as bad as Obama or Hillary.. and your boy Cruz... was a Canadian citizen just two years ago.
Dual citizenship is intolerable to MOST real conservatives in any political office.
Cruz is sucking up to the likes of lindsey the queer graham. He IS GOPe, and you know it.
Censor your self... Levin.
Every now and then, the “mob” gets it right.
(Like in the old 1930 something Frankenstein movie)
The citizens righted a great wrong once they figured out what the doctor was up to.
>>I am not willing to surrender my First Amendment rights to Donald Trump if he should have populist wind at his back.
Who has suggested that you should, should that come to pass?
If they want to punish their citizens with tariffs, let them. Thank God we don’t.
“Grabbing power from the rich and giving it to the people” is pure marxism. You’re only proving Levin right.
There’s nothing conservative about demonizing and attacking rich people. You sound like Bernie Sanders, just like Trump often does.
I was a Friedman guy, big time. 30 years of that experiment just hasn't proved beneficial. It's proved disastrous.
I’m talking about the trade deals that currently exist. You know well that Trump is constantly railing on about how Nafta and other trade deals have “killed us.” I want the specifics of what text or part of the deal did it...and reasonable evidence that the cause is connected to the effect.
We can talk all day long about a bill that hasn’t been passed yet and provisions that may or may not make the final cut. That’s more hypothetical than I care to discuss.
If you’re going to replace tariffs with abolishment of the income tax, payroll tax, and corporate tax, then let’s talk. This issue has been about raising tariffs for their own purpose. Tariffs might cause harm, but if you put all that other stuff on the table as a trade-off, then the overall conclusion could be different.
I don't mean to preempt the process, but the likely outcomes are becoming clear enough for plans to be made.
Cruz was my guy until Chicago and I would welcome a 4th quarter comeback by a stalwart consevative. But it seems unlikely to me and I would prefer a peace between conservatives and the well-meaning Trump supporters.
We really need to win in November.
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