Mark Levin opened his show weighing in tonight on Donald Trump’s criticisms of Ted Cruz and Scalia over the weekend. Levin points out, once again, that he isn’t endorsing a specific candidate and that this election isn’t about a single candidate or a cult of personality. Rather, Levin says, this election is about getting the most conservative candidate and saving the Constitution because our country is on the precipice.
But he wasn’t happy with Trump’s criticisms of Scalia, nor his criticisms of Ted Cruz with respect to him being against ethanol subsidies and his calling out of McConnell and the establishment in the Senate.
Levin says that we’re losing our republic and any candidate that does not understand this is a candidate that he can’t support.
Now he wasn’t disavowing support for anyone so don’t misunderstand that statement. What he means is that he’s not going to follow any candidate to the left, especially with regard to supporting big government ethanol subsidies and supporting the Republican establishment.
Levin does question, though, why Trump would go to Iowa and support ethanol subsidies. Levin explained that “populism without conservatism is liberalism”, or more precisely, “statism.”
Levin ends the segment with some stern but friendly advice for Trump, asking him to “stop lurching, come back, that there’s nothing inconsistent with being a conservative populist.” Levin adds that “It is inconsistent being a populist without conservatism. That’s liberalism.”
Listen to his full opening segment below: