Mark Levin blasts what he calls the “woke right” conservatives and “national conservatives” for abandoning traditional Reaganite principles in favor of government intervention.

MARK LEVIN: These national polls, they don’t really tell us what’s going on in individual states, obviously, and certainly not in individual congressional districts. And so they have perhaps some utility, but they’re not the end all and the be all. Would I rather it be the other way around? Of course. But you know what, ladies and gentlemen, getting elected is about doing things that need to be done. We needed to make sure the Iranian Nazi regime didn’t get nuclear weapons and didn’t shoot intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them at us, and that’s very important. And this president’s the only one that’s had the guts to do it in half a century. He deserves credit a lot, and more than from history. He deserves credit today. But we have a problem when we have the pseudo-conservative, woke right, neo-fascist isolationists who are out there condemning what the president is doing without condemning him personally, but some do as well. That undermines support for the president. We now have this push by so-called national conservatives, it’s not new, paleo-conservatives, the Buchananites used to do this, but others, urging and urging and urging over again the abandonment of core conservative traditional Reaganite principles, and they insist on government intervention. Now let me tell you something. It was announced in the last 48 hours that we are now close to a 50 trillion dollar debt. You know how we were talking about 40 trillion, 39 trillion, now it’s close to 50 trillion. It is literally unimaginable. Now numbers typically go, you know, over one’s head or through one ear and out the other. Okay, great, what’s for dinner? But understand what I’m saying here, because great empires, great republics, they will fall when it comes to this kind of debt. And remember what I’ve always told you and what I’ve written about, that’s on budget debt. They do not acknowledge, our government does not acknowledge the off-budget debt, like what we owe social security recipients, what we owe medicare recipients, what we owe in federal pension payments, and so forth and so on. The only entity even close to having this kind of information on the books is the post office. And people mock the post office, they laugh at the post office, I don’t know why. The truth is that they are required, the post office, to keep their total debt on their books. So the pension payments that they have to make and have to make in the future are on their books. Just as they are with every single private company. Every single public company has to acknowledge its obligations, whether they are today or tomorrow or 10 years from now, because it impacts the public’s knowledge in a capitalist free system of how healthy that company is, whether you want to invest in it or not. So in the stock exchange and so forth, some are, some aren’t, but you get the point. Well the federal government doesn’t do that. The federal government doesn’t do that. And so the 50 trillion dollars is the tip of the iceberg. It’s literally three and a half times bigger than that. It’s more like 300, 350 trillion dollars. Well our economy only creates give or take 20 trillion dollars a year. And now we have these pseudo-conservatives, I call them socialist light, woke right, who are out there pushing this agenda. And I have to say that it’s appalling, it’s appalling. They’re playing right into the Democrats hands during the election, right into the Democrats hands. Because if I’m a Democrat, I turn around and what do I say? The Republicans say we need more government. Well they’re in charge, where’s more government? Where’s the intervention? To help younger people, to help the middle class, the working people. When you surrender your principles, what are you? Your principles are needed more now than ever. They’re needed more when you’re fighting these dark forces, whether it’s economic or national security or what have you, than when things are going so perfectly well. Now what would they say to the president today? What would they say to the president today? Trump urges Americans to accept higher gas prices as he escalates Iran rhetoric, quote unquote AOL. They would be attacking him, trashing him. I would think the vice president, who’s at complete odds with a statement like this, based on what he said the other day. How do we square these things? Well the president’s right, the president’s right, the socialist light, pseudo-conservative woke right types are wrong. You create growth, you create wealth, and you urge and find ways for your children and grandchildren. Or you find ways as a government by changing your regulatory policies, by encouraging more freedom, more competition. That’s a way the government can intervene. But you don’t create more programs. And what are these programs? I’ve asked repeatedly. Here, I’ve asked repeatedly. Online, give us your program, lay out your plan. What is it? What is it that’s going to make life better? Maybe we can agree. On some of these things. Maybe they’re more market oriented. Maybe they’re more economically rational. It’s okay. But they don’t. They don’t.

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