Mark Levin shares the hilarious secret about how he prepares for his shows



It’s not uncommon for the great one to get inquiries from his fans asking about how he prepares for his shows.

While Levin doesn’t reveal all the ingredients for his show-planning sauce, he does share one: “Sometimes if I go to our fabulous supermarket called Wegmans, they have all the newspapers there. So I might pick up two donuts and five newspapers.”

On a recent episode of “LevinTV,” he invited his audience to pull up a chair and witness the master at work.

He starts with the Washington Post, which he affectionately dubs “the Washington Compost.”

Holding up the hefty stack of pages, he quips, “All the trees that died for this.”

He flips through, headline by headline, tossing out zingers like “some lib wrote this,” “these guys are morons,” and “who cares?” — each delivered with the precision of a seasoned roast-master.

He doesn’t shy away from the paper’s darker history either, reminding viewers, “This is one of the newspapers that covered up the Holocaust.”

Then, he hits a front-page story titled “‘We’ll do what’s right’: Judge Resolute Amid U.S. pressure,” a glowing piece about Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes, portrayed as a stalwart defender of “democracy” despite U.S. sanctions, tariffs, and criticism from figures like Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

“Now keep in mind the Washington Compost is thrilled when it's running stories attacking Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, of course, Brett Kavanaugh ... but this judge [Moraes] is ‘steadfast’ in Brazil. He's not going to buckle,” Levin mocks. “That judge in Brazil is a left-wing kook hack like many of the writers for this newspaper.”

Levin eventually makes his way to the Post’s style section to an article titled “The Future of Book Reviews Looks Grim.”

“This book ‘On Power’ is a number one New York Times bestseller. I've had nine [best sellers] in a row. ... Do you know how many book reviews the New York Times has done for this book or any of the nine? Zero,” he says. “Now, I'm supposed to read an article that the future of book reviews looks grim? Well, when it comes to my books, they're nonexistent.”

For more of Levin’s sharp-witted takedown of “the New York Slimes,” check out the video above. It’s a masterclass in turning newsprint into comedic kindling.

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Why do bureaucrats and judges rule when ‘we the people' hold power? Levin’s ‘On Power’ reveals all



“Individual and human rights, liberty, and equality predate governments because they do not originate from governments.”

This is a line out of Mark Levin’s new book, “On Power” — a deep dive into the nature of power, its historical roots, and its impact on liberty and governance in America.

It’s also a reiteration of the most critical part of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“Those two sentences are so important,” says Levin.

He explains that this idea that “God is sovereign and God's children on earth are His sovereign children” is what distinguishes America – a “fusion of the Judeo-Christian value system” and “the Enlightenment” — from “Marxism and all the isms.” We the people get to decide how we’re governed.

If this is who America is, then why do we have bureaucrats and unelected judges calling so many of the shots?

“The bureaucracy has nothing to do with the consent of the governed,” Levin condemns, castigating the unelected judges and bureaucrats who continue to “devour the powers of the executive.”

This clash between America’s founding principles of individual liberty and the opposing ideology of centralized control by unaccountable powers is unsustainable, he argues.

“The basis for America’s founding and the ideology of the American Marxists are utterly incompatible,” he says, pointing to the “power struggle that exists today and has for 100 years or more” between worldviews about individual liberty and centralized control.

Levin’s “On Power” calls for reclaiming the consent of the governed, urging Americans to resist encroachments on their God-given rights by unaccountable powers, echoing the revolutionary spirit of the Declaration.

If you haven’t already, get your copy today.

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Trump tells Mark Levin what guides him in peace talks, emphasizes need to stop the Russia-Ukraine massacre



President Donald Trump revealed in a Tuesday interview with Blaze Media co-founder Mark Levin what guides him through his diplomatic endeavors as well as what's next for Ukraine, Russia, and America where brokering a lasting peace is concerned.

"You've got a lot of balls in the air with this," said Levin.

"You've got NATO. You got these NATO countries. You've got our national security interests. You've got Russia and Ukraine, their interests, and so forth and so on."

Levin asked, "Is there process here, or do you just kind of go with the flow?"

'Don't forget: That's not easy to overcome when he sees these wack jobs.'

Trump — who alluded in the interview to the conflicts he recently resolved between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia and Thailand, and India and Pakistan, as well as his decisive strikes on Iran and the progress made already regarding the war in Ukraine — indicated that "it's probably instinct more than process."

"I have instincts, and I've lived with my instinct about things. Even running for president, I had an instinct I'd win the first time, and I did even better the second time — as you know, I did much better ... but bad things happened," said Trump.

The president suggested that now his second term "is far more powerful."

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While his instinct has helped bring relative peace to numerous nations around the world, Trump admitted to Levin that based on his previous relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he initially expected that things would have gone more smoothly with the Ukraine peace talks.

"I actually had a good relationship with President Putin [in] the first term despite the fact that we had 'Russia, Russia, Russia,'" said Trump. "Don't forget: That's not easy to overcome when he sees these wack jobs — and he knew it was false because he wasn't involved. Not to say he's an angel, by the way, but he knew it was all a made-up thing, and, you know, he probably thought we were totally crazy, this country."

Trump indicated that while the Russia-Ukraine war has proven more difficult to resolve than other conflicts — certainly more difficult that he first imagined — he had "very successful" meetings with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, "and now we'll see how they do."

In the event that Putin and Zelenskyy can't seal the deal, Trump indicated, "I'll probably be able to get it closed. I just want to see what happens at the meeting."

'You're not going to have to worry about that.'

Regardless of the outcome, Trump made clear that the American taxpayer will no longer be on the hook for prolonging the Slavic bloodshed.

Trump bemoaned the hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars that have been spent on the war, stressing, "We're not going to do that."

Between the rare-earth deal he brokered with Ukraine and his deal with NATO for the military alliance to buy American missiles and weapons, Trump indicated that "we're not spending any money" despite pressure from Zelenskyy, whom he likened to P.T. Barnum, the hoax-pushing showman who co-founded the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

"The whole thing is ridiculous," said Trump. "But more importantly, the death being caused over there is incredible. So we're going to try and stop it, and I think we have a good shot."

At the very least, Trump reassured Levin that whereas the conflict in Ukraine was dragging the world toward nuclear war when former President Joe Biden was in office, "you're not going to have that any more. That's the nice part. You're not going to have to worry about that."

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Bernie Sanders shuns Mark Levin debate: Scared of being grilled over his Castro crush?



Mark Levin has repeatedly invited Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on “LevinTV” to debate him over Sanders’ long list of socialist policies, like government-run health care, punitive wealth taxes, and union-heavy labor schemes. Many public invitations have been extended, but every time — crickets.

Is he just too busy rallying Trump haters on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour? Or is he scared Mark will wipe the floor with him?

Perhaps he’s hesitant because he knows he’ll be skewered over his fascination with communist dictators — like his lauding of the tyrannical Cuban despot Fidel Castro back in 2020 during a "60 Minutes" interview and subsequent CNN town hall.

Following his controversial statement in the interview that it’s “unfair to simply say everything [about Castro’s Cuba] is bad,” Sanders doubled down in the town hall.

“When Fidel Castro first came to power ... you know what he did? He initiated a major literacy program,” Sanders retorted.

“There was a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate, and he formed a literacy brigade. ... They went out, and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what I think? Teaching people to read and write is a good thing,” he added.

“Wow, a literacy program,” mocks Levin. “But you weren't allowed to read what you wanted to read. You weren't allowed to say what you wanted to say. There was no right to speech, free speech, or any other kind of speech unless it was dictated by the government.”

Castro, he reminds, was “a genocidal maniac who was killing people and throwing them in prison,” and his “literacy brigades” were “filled with people who had allegiance to [him] and the communists.”

“They were not just going into homes to teach literacy. They were going in their homes to spy,” says Levin.

Sanders caveated his praise of Castro’s literacy initiative by arguing he’s been “critical of all authoritarian regimes all over the world,” including Cuba’s, but Levin calls him a “a liar.”

“He used to defend all the communist leaders. Now, he's got a little more clever in his extremely old age,” he corrects.

“He supported the communist leader in Nicaragua. ... He supported the communist leader in Cuba. He supported the communist leader in the old Soviet Union when he honeymooned in Moscow,” Levin adds.

Sanders capped his defense of Castro by arguing, “I happen to believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”

“No, he doesn't believe in democracy,” says Levin, citing George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” in which he argued that political language is often manipulated by authoritarians to mask their wicked ends.

Sanders is “a Stalinist,” he says.

“This is why Bernie Sanders won't come on any of my shows. He will not come on any of my shows because he knows I'm going to question him.”

To see the clip of Sanders and hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Mark Levin slams viral Gaza photo as anti-Israel propaganda



There’s a ghastly photograph of an 18-month-old Palestinian boy named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq that’s gone viral. In the image, he appears severely malnourished, his spine protruding from his back while he lies in his mother’s arms in Gaza.

It’s a gut punch of a photo that makes even the staunchest Israel supporter wince.

That’s why major media outlets — including the New York Times, the Daily Express, the Guardian, CNN, and the Daily Mail, among others — have circulated the image. It’s top-tier pathos to push the narrative that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is the fault of genocidal Israel.

Except the photo is a lie.

“That child was dying, but he was dying from a disease that he had at birth,” says Mark Levin, condemning the framing of the photograph as “horrendous propaganda.”

While Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq’s condition is a tragedy — no child deserves such a fate — it adds insult to injury to use his predicament to further the lie that Israel is responsible for Gaza’s starvation.

“That photo made it around the world. Western media covered it. American media covered it. Prime ministers used it. Presidents used it. Everybody was using it to condemn Netanyahu and the Israelis as committing genocide and war crimes,” says Levin.

While it’s true that Gaza is indeed suffering from starvation, it’s Hamas who has blood on its hands, not Israel.

Levin plays a recent clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sharing the truth about Gaza’s crisis on NBC News' “Meet the Press.”

“Israel, since this war began, has supplied over 94,000 truckloads full of food. It's enough food to feed 2 million people for two years. [They’ve been] trying to get that into Gaza, but Hamas has stolen the food. … In 2024, the numbers are that Hamas profited over $500 million in stolen food aid that was supposed to go to these poor people who needed it,” he told Kristen Welker.

“The U.N. needs to work with Israel to make sure that the food is getting to the people that need it most. … That's Israel's intention. That's the U.S.' intention and the U.N. as well,” he added.

While Levin praises Johnson for speaking the truth about Hamas being the cause of Gaza’s starvation, he corrects the narrative that the U.N. seeks to help starving Gazans.

“The U.N.'s working with Hamas, just like UNRWA worked with Hamas. The U.N. wants all the food to go through the U.N. so the U.N. can then work with Hamas,” he says.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the video above.

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Levindication: Mark Levin's Mueller and Russia hoax diagnoses in 2019 were right on the money



The House Oversight Committee issued deposition subpoenas on Tuesday to the Department of Justice as well as to a number of high-profile former government officials "for testimony related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein."

Among those whom Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed was Robert Mueller.

'I'm not going to mock this man.'

There are mounting doubts over whether Mueller — who was FBI director when child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein received immunity from federal prosecution through a non-prosecution agreement — will be able to testify before the committee.

If accurate, the basis of these doubts serves to vindicate the second of two diagnoses Blaze Media co-founder Mark Levin accurately made in the same segment six years ago.

Then

Mueller was appointed in May 2017 to oversee the DOJ's investigation into allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. His final report, which was released in April 2019, stated that the "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

Following the publication of his report, Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee. It was a total disaster.

During the hearing, the former special counsel stuttered, blanked on critical pieces of information about his investigation, and struggled to hear questions.

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After watching the hearing, Levin suggested that the former special counsel might have "onset dementia."

"Look, I've seen people with onset dementia. I'm not going to mock this man," Levin told "Fox & Friends." "He obviously shouldn't have been there. He should've never headed this investigation. I'm not making allegations. I'm not trying to be provocative, but the idea that Rod Rosenstein appointed this man to head the office is an outrage."

In addition to suggesting that Mueller's disastrous performance was the result of cognitive decline, Levin noted that "this is the greatest political scandal in American history, and it's still going on, and it was led by Obama, and it was led by Hillary Clinton."

'Mueller was used by some very vicious people.'

After noting how the FBI spied on the Trump campaign and made good use out of the bogus Steele dossier, Levin said, "They were trying to kill off the Trump campaign. ... This is Obama, Hillary, and their surrogates in law enforcement and in the intelligence agencies."

In an apparent effort to maximize confidence in Mueller's statements to Congress — including the former special counsel's suggestion that his report did not exonerate the president — Newsweek hit Levin on his first claim.

The liberal publication suggested that there was no evidence that Mueller had dementia, that "there are no credible reports of Mueller being unwell in any way," and that the allegation was part of an effort to "discredit the Mueller probe."

Now

Both of Levin's assertions appear to have been right on the money. Newsweek's doubts, on the other hand, appear to have been misplaced.

Paul Sperry, a senior reporter at RealClearInvestigations, revealed on Tuesday that sources told him that Mueller "has been living in a memory-care facility for the past few years."

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) noted, "It was clear this is where things were heading when we questioned him before congress. Mueller was used by some very vicious people. I’m not sure he really ever knew what was happening in the investigation."

When asked by the Daily Caller about whether Mueller was indeed in a memory-care facility, a spokesman for the Oversight Committee declined to comment.

'More than vindication, I am disgusted and appalled by this.'

Levin's other diagnosis concerning Obama and Clinton's links to the Russia collusion hoax was also recently bolstered by documents declassified and shared by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

The Durham annex, declassified by Ratcliffe then published by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), revealed that the FBI was aware in 2016 of credible intelligence indicating that the Clinton campaign planned to smear Trump, falsely link him to Russia, then have the intelligence community carry the ball down the field.

RELATED: Ratcliffe releases damning Durham annex. Here's what it reveals about Obama-Clinton Russia collusion hoax.

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The House Intelligence Committee majority staff report released last month by Gabbard revealed that the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment regarding imagined Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was a work of fiction, including comprising misquotes, unreliable reports, lies of omissions, and straight-out falsehoods.

As Levin deduced, Obama was directly involved — ordering the ICA in December — and the Steele dossier played a role, as it was incorporated in the assessment contrary to ex-CIA Director John Brennan's 2023 statement to Congress.

Levin told Blaze News, "Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the greatest attack on our Republic from within our government. And they colluded and conspired with the American media, who worked with them every step of the way."

"More than vindication, I am disgusted and appalled by this and am thankful the administration is releasing internal government records and evidence and that a grand jury has been empaneled to criminally expose the reprobates who were involved," continued Levin. "It is also about time that Obama and Clinton will be questioned under oath — or sure as hell better be!"

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What you’re not being told about Israel, Gaza, and the UN



Why does the mainstream media perpetuate the narrative of starving Gazans, when right now, there are hundreds of pallets of food and medicine sitting undistributed?

Mark Levin plays recent video footage capturing thousands of pounds of aid sitting untouched on pallets and in semis along Gaza’s borders.

“Of course, the U.N. is doing what the U.N. does. The U.N. works with Hamas. Hamas sells the food. Hamas uses it to extort, to threaten Palestinians there. They're shooting Palestinians alive who are starving who want food,” he says.

Israel is responsible for much of the aid being sent to Gaza, but the mainstream media buries this fact and instead spreads the narrative that Israel is guilty of war crimes.

Levin plays a soundbite from U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s interview with Bari Weiss on “The Free Press,” during which they addressed this issue.

Weiss pointed out that “in the New York Times, articles pairing Israel and genocide reached levels more than nine times higher than the peak for Rwanda, in which 800,000 people were murdered in 100 days.”

“What is going on here?” she asked Huckabee.

“To say that Israel has been involved in something like that is recklessly irresponsible, and it is factually off-the-charts untrue,” he answered.

“You really are hearkening back to the very foundation of what led to the Holocaust.”

Of course, another holocaust is exactly what Hamas and other Islamist groups aim for, but they’re sneaky about how they go about it. They project their own genocidal intentions on Israel.

Levin plays a clip from MEMRI capturing former ISIS official and current Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa declaring that “outlaw groups” — Druze and Christians — are slaughtering the innocent Bedouins.

The truth is the Bedouins are “terrorists that the army is supporting,” who are “slaughtering the Jews and Christians,” says Levin.

“The Israelis had to intervene to defend these people and to protect them. That's exactly what took place. The Bedouins are being urged and others to slaughter them,” he clarifies. “So this guy [Ahmed al-Sharaa] is so devious, so evil, and yet we put our money with him, hoping that he can turn Syria into some kind of a diverse democracy.”

To hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Obama's 'silent coup' isn't immune, Mark Levin calls for full DOJ probe



In the wake of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of a trove of Russiagate documents, leading her to refer former President Barack Obama and other Obama administration officials to the Department of Justice for potential criminal investigation, certain legal “experts” are claiming Barack Obama has immunity.

They point to Trump v. United States (July 2024), in which the Supreme Court held that former presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within their "core constitutional powers" and presumptive immunity for other official acts within the "outer perimeter" of their responsibilities. However, they have no immunity for unofficial or private acts.

Mark Levin recalls the time when President Obama ordered the killing of Al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was an American citizen.

“He can't be charged for killing that person, nor should he have been,” says Levin, “but ladies and gentlemen, if the president of the United States ... is embezzling funds or he's running some kind of a drug racket while he's president of the United States, those are not his official duties, and so after he leaves the presidency, he can be charged with that.”

Orchestrating Russigate – a “treasonous conspiracy” as Director Gabbard called it – would most certainly fall into the latter category if Obama was found guilty.

If “Barack Obama, is involved in a scheme, the purpose of which is to interfere with a presidential election because he wants Hillary Clinton and the Democrats to win, and subsequent to that, if [he] is involved in a scheme to usurp the new president's role or to sabotage the new president's role, that's not an official duty,” says Levin, “and certainly [he] can be charged with that.”

“There are criminal statutes for making false claims ... and hoaxes. And it actually uses the word hoaxes,” he explains. “Donald Trump has called [Russiagate] a hoax from day one, and he's exactly correct.”

In a recent press conference, President Trump, when asked about the Russiagate developments, was crystal clear: “This is, like, proof – irrefutable proof – that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup, and it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people, but Obama headed it up ... and it says so right in the papers.”

If the DOJ conducts its criminal investigation and concurs that the papers indeed incriminate Obama, the Constitution, specifically the separation of powers doctrine and Article II, as well as SCOTUS’ ruling on Trump v. United States, should not protect him from prosecution.

Further, considering all the lawfare waged on President Trump, “Why shouldn't Barack Obama be criminally investigated, put under oath ... in order to determine the extent to which he was involved in a silent coup?” Levin asks.

“So Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who I like very much), are you prepared to subpoena Barack Obama?”

To hear more of his analysis, watch the video above.

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Mark Levin’s NEW book 'On Power' drops TODAY



It’s impossible to talk about liberty without also addressing power. Concepts like unalienable rights are “nonexistent” if one doesn’t understand power structures, says Mark Levin. People can throw the words “liberty” and “rights” around all day, but oftentimes, especially on the left, they are ignorant to the “earthly application” of these terms.

Leftists fret over losing our democracy, but they spit on our Constitution when it’s the Constitution that establishes the “eternal truths” behind liberty and rights – the bedrock of democracy.

“Your Constitution is all about not liberty, not about rights, but power for the application of liberty and rights. Your entire constitution is about power – separation of power,” says Levin.

Compare that to Marxism, which is about the “centralization of power” via stripping citizens of their rights. It’s built upon “the phony argument about the state withering away,” but “the state never withers away,” he explains.

In his latest book, “On Power,” which is available for purchase starting today, Levin unpacks “why Marxism is not only defective, but completely flawed and inhumane from the very beginning.”

Marxism, Levin explains, “talks about the final stage being the withering away of the state ... where the proletariat, the people, have risen up; they've thrown off hundreds, if not thousands, of years of labor enslavement” and “reached a point where we have this equality.”

Equality, to the Marxist, is “the end stage of humanity,” where the stateless society shares resources communally, and exploitation and imbalance have been forever eliminated.

The problem is true equality “is an impossibility,” and “there is no end stage in humanity,” at least as it relates to “man-made ideology,” says Levin. “Man continues to evolve or devolve, but man doesn't stand still.”

The Marxist idea that if we just “eliminate the excesses, eliminate the barriers” (people included), we’d create this utopia, is a myth, he explains.

Our Constitution, on the other hand, understands the impossibility of a “perfect end stage” of humanity. Instead, it provides a timeless framework for protecting liberty and rights through balanced power – a principle Levin passionately defends against Marxist fallacies in “On Power.”

Levin’s explosive new book delivers a searing takedown of Marxism’s threat to freedom, brilliantly defending individual liberty and unalienable rights – get your copy today to join the fight for a free society!

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The REAL reason New York City is so expensive



New York City is the most expensive city in the United States because the high demand for limited space drives up costs for housing, goods, and services, right?

Well, not exactly. While it’s true that high demand and limited space impact any city’s cost of living, the adoption of Marxist policies are heavily to blame for the unaffordability crisis in NYC.

“Why is New York City so expensive? It has the highest taxes in the country. ... It has more regulations than anybody can keep track of,” Mark Levin says.

The city’s effort to make living more affordable via rent controls has only made matters worse because developers opt to “build more luxury [residences] ... to bypass the rent control and to sell to wealthy people,” making “housing for people who have average incomes less and less affordable and in some areas unaffordable,” he explains.

As for the exorbitant cost of food in NYC, taxes — “taxes on the people who sell the food, taxes on restaurants, taxes on delicatessens and pizzerias” — are to blame, Levin says. Other government-imposed factors, specifically regulations and labor requirements such as high minimum wages, prevent would-be business owners from entering the market.

Levin finds it ironic that the very government policies — like rent controls and high minimum wages — that are imposed to make the city more affordable are actually what make NYC so expensive.

Unfortunately, New Yorkers can’t seem to connect the dots, which is why they continue electing people like Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate who’s an open socialist. He’s proposing stricter rent controls and an even higher minimum wage, as well as city-owned grocery stores and free public transportation, among other Marxist policies. He’s even expressed his desire to “seize the means of production” — an idea that “comes straight out of the ‘Communist Manifesto.’”

Many of these voters buy into the false narrative that it’s capitalism and billionaires making life unaffordable, when in fact it's capitalism that gives us freedom to ascend in the ranks and puts the power of destiny in our hands.

“Capitalism is a godsend,” Levin says, but “for the Marxists, it must be destroyed.”

Mamdani and others like him sell a vision of a “workers’ paradise” where affordability is no longer an issue, but the reality of that vision is a society where “individualism and freedom” are treated like “poison.” It’s a world where “the family, the church, [and] the synagogue” are seen as “competing social structures” that need to be “annihilated.” The people who previously “created the wealth” are disincentivized to do the very things that led to wealth, so they move away.

This is the fate of New York City if Mamdani comes into power, Levin warns.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the clip above.

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