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   Fox News host Mark Levin said the Democratic Party has hated the United   
   States since its founding in 1776 – a half-century before it came into   
   existence.   
      
   Levin appeared as a guest on Tuesday’s edition of Hannity, where he gave   
   his take on the history of the Democratic Party while reacting to the   
   latest indictment of Donald Trump. On Monday, the former president was   
   indicted by a Fulton County grand jury over his efforts to overturn the   
   2020 presidential election results in Georgia. He also faces federal   
   charges over his attempts to subvert the results in that state and others   
   he lost.   
      
   Conservatives have tried to flip the narrative on its head by insisting   
   that prosecuting Trump for trying to reverse the election result is   
   actually an attack on democracy and the rule of law.   
      
   Host Sean Hannity played clips of Democratic politicians calling Trump’s   
   presidency “illegitimate,” as if to suggest equivalency. What went   
   unmentioned is the fact that those politicians did not initiate a pressure   
   campaign to get elected officials across the country to nullify Trump’s   
   victory in 2016, as he tried to do to his opponent in 2020 when he asked   
   Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” him enough votes to win, or tried   
   to pressure his vice president to ignore the valid results as presiding   
   officer over the election’s certification.   
      
   “It’s a funny thing about this Democrat party,” Levin began. “It does hate   
   America. It’s hated America since its founding. It helped cause the Civil   
   War and segregation.”   
      
   The Democratic Party was not founded until the 1820s and first nominated a   
   presidential candidate in the form of Andrew Jackson in 1828.   
      
   We’ve gone through several years where they attacked the Declaration of   
   Independence and the Constitution,” Levin continued, before characterizing   
   Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election as normal. “Let me explain   
   something about Georgia and all the rest of it. Every one of these damn   
   phony indictments where they dust off these old laws or they take what is   
   normal actions in the course of an election where you’re lobbying state   
   legislatures, where you’re claiming elections are wrong whether they are   
   wrong or not, whether you’re raising legitimate things are not. This is an   
   attack on the people. Every indictment is an attack on our freedom and   
   ability to vote.”   
      
   Levin has flubbed his history before. In his book, American Marxism, he   
   claimed the “Franklin School” in Weimar Germany laid the groundwork for   
   “critical race theory.” He repeated the term in numerous television   
   appearances. However, he appeared to be describing the Frankfurt School.   
      
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