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Levin: 'America first' doesn't mean sticking 'your head in the sand'
Fox News ^ | 4/24/22 | Kristine Parks

Posted on 04/24/2022 7:16:30 PM PDT by conservative98

Fox News host Mark Levin explained what "America first" means to him, Sunday, by debunking the notion that our founders were "nationalists."

The "Life, Liberty & Levin" host said how the word "nationalist" cannot be found in our founding documents because the founders and framers "believed in Americanism," guided by "natural law and rights," not nationalism" or "populism."

"The Tenth Amendment rejects nationalism. It’s federalism. Talks about state sovereignty. Why do we have a Ninth Amendment? Have you read that one lately? It talks about individual liberty, it is in my view, a reflection of the Declaration. They put it right there in the Ninth Amendment. That is your protection. Nationalism strikes me as an all powerful, centralized federal government. Right? I am not a nationalist."

"There’s a fusion there. The one outright hates the country, the American Marxist, trying to destroy it from within. The other says ‘I love the country so much, we have to isolate it from everything and everything else.’ Really?" he explained.

Instead, Levin argued, "America first" means responding to global atrocities like Russia's war with Ukraine, to stop another world war from happening.

"America means embracing capitalism but not selling to the enemy or giving to the enemy weapons they will sure as hell use against us… And Americanism means to me when you see mass graves in Ukraine, now, 9,000, when you see people being slaughtered by a monster and a war machine that is imperialistic, that if they have their way … will light the fuse with its allies in communist China in terrorist Iran, in North Korea … really creating a true world war."

"America first doesn't mean putting your head in the sand and pretending otherwise. You want to protect your children from war? You stand up now," he urged.

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To: conservative98
Mark levin was the most vicious and vile critic of Trump the minute Trump announced. He was relentless-daily- on his radio show

Then, after Trump was elected he jumped on the Trump money train.

Then the little bastard, hypocrite, self proclaimed protector of the Constitution clammed up (with Fox News) Nov.2020 on election fraud. And has been silent on it since...How do I know? Fox hasn't fired him yet.

41 posted on 04/24/2022 7:55:17 PM PDT by lewislynn (Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020)
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To: ohioman

You bet, Levin is a Johnny come lately.


42 posted on 04/24/2022 7:55:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Levin backed Glenn Beck over Trump when Beck compared Trump to Hitler and Trump supporters to Nazis.

Remember when Obama slipped, and said, look whatever happens, my kids are going to be fine.

That’s where Levin is coming from, let the little people pay for it.

He got his, screw the middle class.

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43 posted on 04/24/2022 7:57:24 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: Jewbacca

The problem with aid is that it never stops. The foreign welfare pimpers never can stop with this madness. Welfare destroys. Europe refused to arm and prepare because of our foreign welfare. They cut their own throats cutting back on their defenses and the rest.


44 posted on 04/24/2022 7:59:05 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Jewbacca

This is my read on it and also my position which can be summed up simply like this:

1. Do not appease Putin
2. Do not send US forces to Ukraine
3. Do send weapons and supplies to Ukraine


45 posted on 04/24/2022 8:02:17 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Here come the NeoCons.


46 posted on 04/24/2022 8:03:38 PM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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Levin yelling isn’t appealing.

How is it going to be paid for Levin?

Not by your accountants. We don’t have the book scam you do. His books are rehashed summarizations that any college kid can write.

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47 posted on 04/24/2022 8:05:38 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: conservative98

American first aDOES NOT MEAN BEING THE WORLD’S FREE MILITARY SERVICE.


48 posted on 04/24/2022 8:07:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC bimbos 'feel' companies that groom children shouldn't have to pay taxes.)
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To: Leaning Right
We must be involved in every last thing on the planet. That kind of thinking bled Britain dry. And it will bleed us dry, too

That is the plan. And it is working. Once the plan is complete. They will use the same tactics on the useful idiots to get rid of them. Gotta cull the herd. They are no longer useful and will be a liability.

49 posted on 04/24/2022 8:09:17 PM PDT by sport
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To: conservative98

NeoCon mouthpiece.
When did Levin serve?
Constellis, formerly Blackwater, is paying mercs.
He and his entire family should sign up.


50 posted on 04/24/2022 8:09:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98
reject “dangerous ideologies” like nationalism and Marxism.

The dangerous ideology is globalism, the notion that you can and should over-ride culture and the nation state built on culture in the name of global "democracy" run by a bunch of marxo-fascist elites who think they have the power to cancel people who don't believe in whatever perversion that globalists are pushing.

We are on the brink of nuclear war because of that and yet can't stop ourselves.

51 posted on 04/24/2022 8:11:32 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: dragnet2
I admit to liking many of the things Levin has said over the years, but he has always had a bit of a deep state feel about him. I have not trusted him since he trashed Trump the first time Trump ran for president. I am beginning to think many so-called conservative commentators are deep state influences at different levels. For example Hanity's roll is deep state bubble gum for the mind of lower level thinking conservatives. Levin appeals to the more cerebral conservatives, but is a deep state influencer non the less.
52 posted on 04/24/2022 8:12:33 PM PDT by suijuris (Once a man learns to see he finds himself alone in the world with nothing but folly.)
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To: conservative98
Nationalism as defined in my 1954 American Family and School Dictionary"


53 posted on 04/24/2022 8:12:51 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: conservative98

Levin thinks he knows better than both George Washington and Dwight D. Eisnhower.


54 posted on 04/24/2022 8:13:32 PM PDT by montag813
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To: conservative98

The way I see it is we should follow the emBASEee strategee. Very AmericaFirsty.

The Budapest Agreement was an “accession” to a signed international United Nations, ratified nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The Ukes honored it and gave up those nukes. The Rukes violated it twice by invading twice, by happenstance it was when there were weak-kneed democrap presidents in office whom Vlad knew would not do anything about an invasion. And the USA has been looking for all kinds of ways to abrogate our responsibility in this treaty/agreement even though it points to disaster down the road for nuclear nonproliferation.

So when I say give back the Ukes their nukes, it is an acknowledgement that nukes are sovereignty. They gave up some nukes in exchange for “assurances” for borders and sovereignty. Since they are in an existential war, who are we to scold them for building nukes since that is what we did when we were in our existential war, and we are the ones who have betrayed them.

If the Ukes develop and deploy a suitcase nuke on a Russian city, it is because they got pushed into an existential corner. What we really should be doing is putting CONVENTIONAL forces into this fight in a way that genuinely “assures” borders and sovereignty for a country that did the right thing. After all, the Russian bear has been shown to be rather toothless compared to what most of us thought they would be in this fight, so the US would kick some serious @$$.

And if we send in American boots on the ground, we damned well better be negotiating American Land as the thing to fight for. Big, sweeping American EmBASEees along the border between Russia and Ukraine. A Lend Lease project. Americans fighting for American land. For generations we could use that land to build airports and fight terrorism in that region. I would call it the BBudapest AAgreement LLend LLease program because it would take BALLs.


from my home page


I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4043681/posts

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55 posted on 04/24/2022 8:18:26 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: wiseprince

Why do I now get the sense that Hunter Biden’s laptop has some images of Mark Levin and Hunter taking a bubble bath together?


56 posted on 04/24/2022 8:25:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

It does always seem to wind up that those who scream the loudest for Ukraine have a personal stake in it.

For example, there’s a zealous Ukraine defender in this thread who has admitted they know Zelenskyy personally.

Actual Americans don’t care.


57 posted on 04/24/2022 8:30:59 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: RFEngineer

Well said.

Levin comes on like a great Constitutional scholar, then cherry-picks the parts he likes to support his neo-con views.

For fun, lets’s make a list of countries to which the US gives money. Then let us go down the list and identify those we consider to be enemies. One thing the constitution is pretty clear about is treason, and I don’t think it would be hard to find two witnesses who will testify.

Now let the Not So Great One analyze his demands in light of Article III, Section 3, Clause 1.


58 posted on 04/24/2022 8:31:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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Levin defended Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, and Glenn Beck attacking Trump and Trump supporters.



Levin and Beck believed with their millions of listeners they could defeat Trump, and they stated that clearly.


59 posted on 04/24/2022 8:32:23 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: suijuris

These conservative influencers are always late to the party whether its globalism, pushing free trade, or border security first before any foreign interventions.


60 posted on 04/24/2022 8:32:41 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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