Few authors have the knack of capturing current events and the public’s attention like conservative megastar Mark Levin. He has struck gold again with his likely ninth consecutive New York Times best-seller, On Power.
Set for release July 29, the popular pundit stormed through history’s examples of “positive” and “negative” power, citing the 263 times the Bible mentions the word, before landing on his target: the liberal swamp’s bid to spoil President Donald Trump’s second term.
It wasn’t hard for Levin, or a stretch. He just quotes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and how he worked with the Biden administration to set up a legal wall thwarting Trump on policies ranging from immigration to emptying bloated federal agencies.
In March, on PBS, Schumer cited the 235 “progressive judges” his chamber approved while Biden was president and bragged, “they are ruling against Trump time after time after time … we are having a good deal of success.”
That, wrote Levin, is a real example of negative power. Liberal judges, he wrote, “are substituting their personal and political policy preferences for those of the president and wrapping them in constitutional and legal jargon.” He added that Trump “is being molested in many important respects by a phalanx of lawyers turned judicial oligarchs who have seized power for themselves.”
An even bigger example is just coming into play from the Justice Department, now laying out an Obama administration-era plot to stop Trump from beating the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and then undercutting his first administration with the Russia hoax.
Negative power, wrote Levin, “is in ascendancy.”
“The Great One” to the millions who listen to his nightly radio show and watch his Fox weekend hit Life, Liberty and Levin also highlighted how Democrats and the liberal media used their power to punish free thinking with “wokeism” and cancel culture.
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— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 23, 2025
“Free speech is requisite to all other freedoms,” he wrote. But, he added, “Free speech is increasingly under assault. Not by the violent force of a foreign tyrant, although the threat is always there, but by the self-righteous demands of mostly factions and cabals within the country who find voice and empowerment in academia, the media and the Democrat Party.”
Levin, a constitutional lawyer and the Justice Department chief of staff in the Reagan administration, offered several examples of “positive power,” none more representative than the Founding Fathers who produced the U.S. Constitution.
But even the Constitution is facing a negative power assault from the Democrats. Levin cited efforts to pack the Supreme Court to rewrite the document and even a challenge to the authority of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
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Of all his bestsellers, American Marxism is one of his biggest. In On Power, he argues that the emerging Democratic “Marxists” such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are trying to use their power and influence to attack the Constitution and society to force America into their dream of Utopia.
“To control the government is to control the distribution and enforcement (or nonenforcement) of rights,” Levin wrote, adding, “to those who object (to the denial of individual and economic rights) or otherwise stand in the way must be made to conform or face public and societal ridicule or worse. This supposed progress is, of course, inevitable, or leastwise must appear so. Shangri-la is always said to be within reach — if only the ruling class has more power and the individual less.”
