In response to opposition to Iran strikes, Mark Levin claims the Democratic Party “hates this country” and “the Constitution”
Levin: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have an enemy within, and it is the Democrat party”
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From the February 28, 2026, edition of Fox News' Hannity
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Joining us now, he is the host of Life, Liberty, and Levin right here on the Fox News Channel. I call him the great one, Mark Levin. You know, Mark, you were on the show last night, and — and we were talking about the difference between President Trump and some people on the left. And President Trump has this very keen sense of history. You are a historian. And we talked about the last century, and Mao in China and Stalin in Russia and Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in fascism and Tojo in Japan and Pol Pot and the killing fields. And I think through the prism of history, Donald Trump, in this last twenty-one hours, is going to be judged as having seen the world at — at its potential worse if this regime, this Nazi-fascist regime ever would have achieved their goal, their ambition of nuclear weapons. And I want to get your thoughts specifically on that.
MARK LEVIN (FOX NEWS HOST): Donald Trump did what nobody else could do for half a century. How do you like that? And you know why he did it? Because he loves his country. You know why he did it? Because he's humane. He saw people slaughtered and he wanted to put an end to it. That's why he did it.
Now, it's time that we Americans have to come to grips with something. We have a party in this country, the Democrat party that hates the country. Here we are in the middle of a spectacular, spectacular humane peace mission where people were being slaughtered. They were being slaughtered right up to the minute we attacked them. We've been talking about it. They've slaughtered our soldiers. They've slaughtered our citizens, our embassy personnel. They come into our country and try and assassinate people. They're the biggest promoters of terrorism, and the Democrats immediately knee-jerk, they defend the terrorists, like they defend the illegal aliens and the criminals. There's something wrong with that party. That at a time we we should be celebrating the most spectacular military act I've ever seen, Khomeini's gone in 20 hours? While their president, Biden, was funding the Iranians billions of dollars, while Obama was paving the way for them to have nuclear weapons. Donald Trump loves this country. He knows right from wrong.
And we've had a real psyop going on in this country for 10 years against this man where they try and pretend he's the authoritarian. He's the dictator. No. They are. They talk about the War Powers Act of 1973. Anybody who is a serious constitutional lawyer knows that act is unconstitutional. I see all these lawyers writing these pieces like they're smart, they're dumb. And every administration, Republican and Democrat, has questioned it, questioned it, but they haven't brought it to the Supreme Court because neither the Congress or the president wants a resolution. When you have Schumer, Schumer, who's basically sliding and walking and weaving, all of a sudden he's excited because he can cripple our armed forces in the middle of a war that they're winning. That's what Schumer's doing. Schumer, who supported the Obama nuclear plan, and they would have nuclear weapons today. That's Schumer.
Then I see these other people say, Trump hasn't made the case. Trump hasn't made the case. He made the case in eight minutes. Overwhelming. But why do we need anybody to make the case? Do you have eyes? Do you have ears? Are you American citizen? Do you know what this regime's been doing? Do you know what it's done to our soldiers? Do you know what it's done to our citizens? Do you know we have people without limbs, without faces, without eyes, as a result of that regime? What do you mean we haven't made the case? Are you really that stupid? And I think they are.
But that party hates this country. I love when they wave around the Constitution. They hate the Constitution. They use it to attack it. They believe that illegal aliens are citizens. They believe that terrorists should be given the benefit of the doubt. Listen. If they had their way, Donald Trump would have sent Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and others to go to Congress and say, here's what we're going to do. We're going to attack them at 3 AM. We're going to use these kinds of forces. We're going to work with Israelis. This is what we're going to do. Now tell the other 530 members of Congress what we're gonna do. Wow. Nobody would leak that? Would they Bernie Sanders and AOC and Tlaib? Of course not. Let me tell you what the founders of this country believed. They changed the word from making war in the first draft of the Constitution to declaring war. They specifically took that out because they don't want the Chuck Schumers of the world making decisions. The only person in Washington D.C. who's elected by all the people, other than the vice president, is the president of the United States. Chuck Schumer's elected from New York. Bernie Sanders is elected from Vermont. They wanted the commander in chief to be elected by the entirety of the nation, and they're even talking about impeaching him if they take the House of Representatives.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have an enemy within, and it is the Democrat party. Every reprobate, miscreant, and malcontent is in that party. The Marxists and the Islamists are in that party. Do they act like they love the nation? Do they? When we have men and women in uniform, Democrats, Republicans, and independents fighting an enemy, fighting terrorists, the greatest terror regime in American — in the world history? And we're winning. And that's why they're going nuts. We're winning.
This is so spectacular what's taking place. And I want our troops to know something. These people who are trying to undermine you, they are — they are a small percentage of the population. We red blooded Americans, we love victory, and we love you. You are of us, and most of us have had relatives if not ourselves in the military. Chuck Schumer means nothing to us. Hakeem Jeffries means nothing to us. You, Mister and Missus America, we support our military. We support our commander in chief. We support victory. This is a spectacular, spectacular military operation with our spectacular ally, the Israelis, with their spectacular prime minister. It's working. It's effective. It's spectacular.
And these guys, we have to hurry back the Congress. We need to have a vote on the War Powers Act of 1973. This would be the same party that dragged us into Vietnam. Right? Was that a declared war? No. It wasn't a declared war. And I could go on and on and on about the hypocrites in that party. It's their president that was about to hand nuclear weapons to this enemy. It's their president who handed them billions of dollars in cash and so forth.
This president isn't going to put up with it, and he hasn't. God bless our president. God bless the prime minister of Israel. And one last thing, as quickly as I can, all those poor people who died on October 7, all those hostages who were taken and raped and tortured and murdered and brutalized, this is for you. All of those Americans who are walking around without without arms or legs, their wheelchairs have died. All of those people who died in our embassies, all those people who've died from their terrorist acts, this is for you. And this is retribution. And you know what? We Americans like retribution, especially when it comes to dealing with terrorists. Khomeini is dead. He's not six feet under. He's in hell. He's got a river of blood on his hands, and the Iranian people are going to be free. They're going to be free. America's going to be safe. The Israelis are going to be safe. The world's going to be safe. No thanks to the U.N. No thanks to Europe. And most of all, no thanks to the Democrats.
I say this to the Democrats. Bring it on, baby. You don't know what you're dealing with. We, the American people, we've had it up to here with you. Issue your press releases. Go on your TV shows.
And by the way, quickly, when did Tom Massie become the mouthpiece for the Republican Party? He's a nonentity. He's a radical libertarian. I keep here, Tom Massie says, Tom Massie says. I don't give a damn what Tom Massie has to say. He doesn't represent me. He's an irrelevancy. He will be a footnote to a footnote to a footnote in history if he's a footnote at all. That's it. I'm done.