Originally Posted by CptnRodent

The "Thomas Paine of our time"? Hardly. Thomas Paine was one of the greatest intellectual contributors to the Enlightenment, and a radical. He eschewed the traditional monarchy, railed against religious control of political institutions, and advocated "liberal" ideas like free public health care and a solid minimum wage.

Mark Levin, by contrast, is what is colloquially known as an "assclown." His first book, which was focused on the Supreme Court and their terrible practices of actually creating a check on executive power, was an unmitigated disaster that exposed him for the intellectual fraud that he is. There was a collective guffaw by constitutional legal scholars from both sides of the aisle as soon as it was published. This is a man who claims to advocate for constitutional originalism, but fails to comprehend anything about the proper place of the Supreme Court. Furthermore, he's a strong advocate of the unitary executive theory, which would strip Congress of oversight ability and give the President a free pass to do whatever he pleases without fear of Congressional repercussion. Ha! Some constitutional originalist he is.

No, Levin is more like the the pseudo-intellectual James Chalmers of our time, hanging on the coat-tails of the real Thomas Paines.