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By TIM GRAHAM<\/p>\n
Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: \u201cOn Power.\u201d How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages?<\/p>\n
In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people lust for power.<\/p>\n
Early on, Levin quotes C.S. Lewis observing, \u201cIt may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron\u2019s cruelty may sometimes sleep,\u201d but \u201cthose who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis was a great promoter of \u201cmere Christianity,\u201d which some might associate with \u201cmoral busybodies.\u201d But having a humble eye on our capacity to sin is what helps contain power. Levin sides with the founders, that \u201cif men were angels, no government would be necessary,\u201d but a government of men must be obliged to \u201ccontrol itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
In America today, Levin argues, most public debate around politics revolves around \u201cwho exercises power, almost to the exclusion of the meaning, purpose and nature of power.\u201d Anyone who watches the news networks knows they believe the audience wants to know who\u2019s up and who\u2019s down, who\u2019s excelling and who is failing. Most broadcast and cable \u201cnews\u201d today asserts the Republicans are perennially failing, and when they succeed, there is evil afoot. <\/p>\n
Now, at a time when Republicans control the executive and the legislative branches, Levin reminds us of Raoul Berger\u2019s 1977 book \u201cGovernment by Judiciary,\u201d and how the founders didn\u2019t want judges to act like policymakers. Levin quotes Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer openly boasting that Trump\u2019s power would be curtailed by \u201cprogressive\u201d judges they confirmed.<\/p>\n
The Left has now put all its hopes in the power of activist judges constantly ruling against Trump\u2019s policies, what Levin calls an \u201cunprecedented onslaught of judicial interventions and obstructions.\u201d See the recent ridiculous decision from Obama-appointed Indira Talwani, a district judge in Massachusetts, putting a restraining order on the Republicans defunding Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,\u201d the judge ruled \u2014 completely skipping over the \u201cadverse health consequences\u201d to the unborn. The judge is not a referee, but a player. A president elected nationwide is being molested by \u201cjudicial oligarchs who have seized power for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Levin concludes that the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers protects us \u201cfrom the logical progression of an increasingly centralized government with an authoritarian ruling class \u2014 that is, authoritarian democracy.\u201d The Left constantly links Trump to authoritarianism, but they are suffused in all that \u201cmoral busybody\u201d arrogance to deny the majority of voters what they voted for.<\/p>\n
When the Democrats win narrowly, it is painted as a broad mandate. When Republicans win narrowly, they must have cheated and should be impeached. If Republicans interpret their mandate too broadly, that\u2019s what elections are for, for the people to decide, not a permanent bureaucracy and judiciary.<\/p>\n
As a media critic, I suspect this will become the ninth Mark Levin book to go to No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, even though the Times is allergic to actually reviewing any of his books, and not just \u201cUnfreedom of the Press\u201d and \u201cThe Democrat Party Hates America.\u201d<\/p>\n
No supposedly \u201cmainstream\u201d media outlet will interview Levin. Six years ago, an NPR reviewer attacked his book on the press as \u201cfull of bombast and bile.\u201d But then, NPR demonstrated their power lust by approving of vile books like \u201cIn Defense of Looting\u201d and \u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. Copyright 2025 Creators.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Graham By TIM GRAHAM Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: \u201cOn Power.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,1073,171,71093,71092,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-112368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-columns","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-levin-fits-big-ideas-in-a-little-book","12":"tag-levin-fits-big-ideas-in-a-little-bookopinion","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114957936645300663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}