12/8/25 - The Rise of the New Imperial Ruling Class

Dec 9, 2025

Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, dives into the insidious influence of a wealthy, bipartisan ruling class that aligns with foreign regimes, especially Qatar. They discuss how this elite group exploits media and podcasts to push anti-American narratives and undermine traditional values. Zakheim highlights the results of the Reagan National Defense Survey, revealing a strong public rejection of isolationism and robust support for U.S. global leadership and missile defense, showcasing a clear desire for America to maintain its strength on the world stage.

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New Imperial Ruling Class

Mark Levin argues a new imperial ruling class has arisen that aligns elites with authoritarian regimes for wealth and influence.
He claims this class uses media and podcasts to promote enemies and attack traditional American values.

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Podcasts As Propaganda Channels

Levin contends these elites celebrate monarchies and fund Islamist and Marxist groups while attacking capitalism and traditional conservatism.
He portrays podcasters as tools of foreign regimes that centralize wealth and power away from everyday Americans.

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Qatar Sheltered 9/11 Mastermind

Levin recounts Qatar providing safe haven to KSM after 9/11 and helping him escape U.S. capture efforts.
He uses the story to accuse attendees of Qatar events of partying while ignoring Qatar's terrorist ties.

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On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, there was a spectacle in Qatar where wealthy ruling-class elites from U.S. government, politics, business, and media, along with foreign leaders for diplomatic cover, gathered to align with a regime that funds terrorism and seeks to destroy the United States from within, the West, and Israel. This highlights the success of a new imperial ruling class across both parties, businesses, unions, media, and financiers, who celebrate monarchy, fascism, and Marxist-Islamists while pursuing power, wealth, and glory. They exploit podcasting and podcasters who claim America First while attacking traditional Americanism, Judeo-Christian values, capitalism, the military, and allies, instead demanding ties with enemies like Qatar. These grifters like Tucker Carlson smear true conservatives, centralize power and wealth in a bizarre feudal-Marxist form, ignore Qatar's role in 9/11 and university corruption, and target vulnerable young people with isolationism toward allies and globalism toward foes. These grifters will cause Republicans to suffer massive losses in midterm elections, even amid a strong economy, by alienating red-blooded Americans—such as veterans, cops, firefighters, electricians, and plumbers—who recognize these figures getting rich in places like Qatar while spreading enemy propaganda against the country. Also, Democrats and the media ignore serious border issues under the Biden administration, such as tens of thousands of women sold into sex slavery and over thousands of missing unaccompanied minors, while dramatizing the Venezuela drug boat strikes. These strikes were lawful; the military and its commander did nothing wrong. Finally, Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan Institute calls in to discuss the 2025 Reagan National Defense Survey. Zakheim explains that Americans don’t believe in isolationism. The world is more likely to achieve peace when the U.S. has the strongest military.

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