The Time I Tried to Read a Mark Levin Book

I tried to read Mark Levin's The Democrat Party Hates America and made it maybe half way through before I switched over to hyper-drive reading speed. Not because it was so easy to go through, but because every page is overflowing with venom and hatred, hatred of the “the Democrat Party”, of Joe Biden, of Hunter Biden...pure, pulsating hatred. I just wanted get through it as fast as possible. But even then I had to quit before the end of the book. It was just too depressing.

I thought it would be a good exercise to get out of my comfort zone and see another point of view. I thought I would examine his logic and admit where I saw it as...well ,logical, and point out where there was poor reasoning (as I saw it). But really after getting into it, I don’t remember any actual arguments, just an avalanche of hateful rhetoric directed at “the Democrat Party”. And if you didn’t know, calling the Democratic Party “the Democrat Party” is meant to be an insult, or it is when you hear it spoken and that same tone comes across in this book.

I probably overvalue my own skill at analyzing arguments. But this was an exercise for me, and nobody else will likely read it my thoughts, so I plunge ahead with my own limited abilities.

Anyway, it wears you down putting your mind in the mind of somebody so very angry, so filled with the opposite of compassion. Page after page of saying the current state of the country is horrible, really horrible, but really he “tells” and doesn’t “show” us about that.

The upshot is IF you already think the Democrats are really bad I bet you are fine with believing they are all Marxist. Yet he never defines what he means so I assume he thinks social secruity, laws protecting minorities, any acknowledgment of prejudice..THAT is Marxist. I mean if Marxism means the state owns the means of production then none of that stuff is actually Marxist.

Assuming he equates Marxism with Communism, he never shows where Democrats are trying to obolish private property, much leess have the state take over the means of production (BTW, take over is not the same thing as to regulate)

So he goes on and on about how Democrats are Marxist. Then there are some really long sections where he repeatedly tells us "you know who really liked slavery in the 19th century??..DEMOCRATS...And you know what else, guess who was really racist after the Civil War...DEMOCRATS. So THERE. " I mean yeah, but the unstated conclusion is that all Democrats today therefore also believe in all that stuff. And that goes on and on for multiple chapters and he is really indignant about it. So really super disingenuous reasoning for page after page is simply draining, it is so disingenuous it is hard to even know where to start.

And YES I know Woodrow Wilson was super racist, EVERYBODY knows that. But it doesn’t dissuade me from voting for a stronger social safty net or anything that would make rich people pay more in taxes. Another unstated assumptions is that taxation is marxism.

And the Coup de grâce is the last chapter where he talks about the worst thing that has ever happened in America...attempts to save lives by implementing COVID lock downs. If you come to this book already thinking like him then no reasoning is required. If you think the lock downs were a tool people tried to make things better, and we should look at what worked and what didn’t for the next time, then Levin is of no help. Although I have to admit I skippped most of the last chapter for my mental health, but from the tone of the opening I am pretty sure he did not work out a nuance position.

Below are some highlights I saved from the library ebook I checked out. Remember he is saying the stuff below about Democrats. I guess during his schooling his dictionary had no entry for “irony”

And of course the biggest irony is that with half or more of the population voting for the Democratic Party he is the one who really, really, hates America. Or at least 1/2 of it

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The police state is growing—as is monitoring and spying
the police state is growing (elsewhere he says police budgets are slashed??)
Our borders are wide open
The Democrat Party is responsible
The Democrat Party is responsible
eviscerate the Constitution
Democrat Party apparatchiks
Biden’s radical agenda
American Marxism
the progressive left who hate America
the American Marxist agenda,
their “Marxist paradise.”
Democrat Party today is more Leninist than Jeffersonian
the horrendous story of the Democrat Party’s past
Wilson’s racism
American Marxism

No longer would states with smaller populations, rural areas, etc., have any effective say in the selection of presidents and vice presidents. Indeed, only nine states make up about 50 percent of the nation’s population. Thus, representative government, where all areas of the country have a say in the conduct of the national government, would end. Tens of millions of people would be without meaningful input in governmental affairs—most of whom just happen to be Republicans and Independents. Representative government would be over for tens of millions of American citizens.

Of course, slavery is unconscionable. There is no excusing it. But capitalism did not drive slavery. Slavery has existed, and exists today, throughout the world and in noncapitalist societies. As Peter W. Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, explains: “Slavery… was not an American invention, or a European one. It has existed in human societies for thousands of years.

They have a totalitarian mind-set. This means the party must come before country