Michael Zey - Author, Retired Professor Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I think we're well on our way, don't you. Seven
twenty two is air time here on Houston's Borning News.
You Have to Make America Great Again has become mainstream,
political mainstream, where it was considered radical just what four
years ago. Now it's political mainstream, and that's thanks to
the American people who overwhelming voted to put Donald Trump
back into the White House. Michael Z's and author. He's

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also a retired professor. He wrote a story about this
for American Thinker. When do you think it went mainstream? Michael?
It must obviously went mainstream before the election.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, I did. And in fact, if you look at
one of the things I first noticed was a poll
that was done about four years ago, was right at
the end of Trump's Trump's first term. We can now
speak about his first and his second term in separate
ways now. And at what they basically did is they

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listed what we would consider MAGA principles, such as restricting immigrations,
as restricting our foreign intervention is in the whole list
of things which we would consider MAGA, except it did
not identify them as MAGA or put Trump's name on them.
And it was very interesting, I believe it was the

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Harvid Harris poll, and they found out they were getting
into sixty five to seventy percent approval of those opinions.
So I think there was already a shift taking place
in the population, especially since Trump had been promoting those
policies for four years already, so we started to see that. Then,
of course, the twenty twenty election, very controversial election, came

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in the midst of basically chaos from a pandemic and shutdowns,
et cetera. By twenty twenty two, you started to see
the most people don't even talk about this, but the
Republicans actually beat the Democrats in the congressional race running
on fairly Magget styled principles, by about three million votes.

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And of course now we see what the wipeout that
we've seen, clearing all seven states, seven of the battleground states.
So I think this is a long time coming. And
if you notice the way that Trump articulates any statement
that he makes or any policy that word common sense,

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he now calls it the Revolution of common sense. It
is all presented as centrist. And when you're talking about
just limiting the border so you don't have millions of
people coming over who are basically undocumented, unknown, literally unseen.
At certain points, that becomes common sense to the American people.

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And so I think you started to see this taking
place four or five years ago and is kind of
germinating now.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I wonder too, You know, we go through political cycles
in this country all the time. Certainly, Joe Biden is
not the first progressive president. Barack Obama was a progressive president.
Woodrow Wilson was a progressive president. You can go back
through this and you can find plenty of progressives. But
it's amazing how that always seems to happen. Now, we
take a shift to the left for maybe four to

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eight years, and then people realize that that really is
not the country they want to have, and they shift
back to the right again. Why do you think that
history repeats itself over and over again that way?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, I think right, because what's happened is that the
progressive have gotten religion and reformed themselves so that after
you had all of those elections that they were losing
in the nineteen eighties because they were running on progressive,
left wing liberal principles. Certainly Clinton came upon came around

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in the late nineteen eighties and by nineteen ninety two,
they were running on what they called a third way,
which was sort of conservative, and Kennedy responded himself was
calling for tax cuts and development of our natural resources.
Kennedy sounds now like a Republican JFK. If you look

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at is inaugural address, it sounds just like a Republican address.
But the problem for the Democrats this time around, and
we're seeing it already, they show no signs of reform.
There is no one emerging, nor is there any faction
emerging within the Democrat Party that is going to bring
them back to the center. In fact, if we any

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indication from their weekend sojourn where they were electing a
new DNC head, it sounds like it's the same old,
same old. I mean, it sounds literally like they're actually
digging in their heels. And they've convinced themselves that it
wasn't a question of their policies. The Democrats feel that
it was just they didn't message it correctly, and if

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they go down that road, they're going to have a
hard time in twenty six. Right now, the polls are
showing poles are showing Republicans are well ahead for the
congressional congressional races in in twenty six. So something is
going to have to change within the Democrats. And I
don't think they've come to realize what their problems are

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at this point, and it's because they have been they
had to find the extreme and they've branded themselves as such,
and unless there's a big change, it's they're they're they're
they're gonna have electoral problems.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, we got to run, But thank you, sir, you're
exactly did on right. Michael is the author retired professor,
joining US at seven twenty eight