Terry Schilling - President, American Principles Project Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pretty good description of the president five to fifty three
our time here in Houston's Morning News. But again according
to this Fox News opinion piece, and that's what this
is an opinion piece, and we all know what opinions are.
Our opinions are, like you can fill with the blank on that
one who seems to think that Republican populism is starting
to creter, that the president's popularity is going down. Another

(00:20):
race in Miami where it took about thirty years, but
Democrats finally brooke their decades long balla box losing streak
of Miami by winning a county commissioner race. Actually she's
a former county commissioner race that was expected to go
to the Republican that went to the Democrat. Here to
talk about all this with us is Terry Shilling, President

(00:41):
of the American Principals Project. Let's start with the populism question.
Is Republican populism starting to fade?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, thanks so much for having Jimmy No, It's Republican
populism was here to stay. This is a very long
term shift that President Trump has made in the Republican Party.
It's very good and there are trade offs here that
that have happened. You've seen it in the election results.

(01:09):
We saw these in Virginia and New Jersey, and we've
seen this in every election. But what happened, what has
happened is Trump has traded the solid, dependable, high high turnout,
you know, suburban voters, for the working class, for for
the popular hillers in America who are often forgotten. But

(01:30):
the good news for Republicans is that there's a lot
more of those populous fillers out there. They're just tougher
to get to the polls because they're they're they're more disillusioned.
They're they're more dejected. They they're they they they're the
ones that believe that the system is most corrupted and
they're least likely to participate. So as long as Republicans
don't lose their heart and they don't sell out, Republican

(01:53):
populism is here to say.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, well, I'm glad to hear you say that. What
about the President himself, of course, he's on he's on
a tour right now. He went to Pennsylvania, he spoke
there last night. He's out there talking about affordability because
he knows that the affordability problem is a Democrat problem
that he inherited, and he wants to make sure that
people understand that. You would think that they could understand
that they lived through the four years of Biden. I did.

(02:18):
Did the President over promise as it relates to fixing
the affordability problem, because I think people people don't realize
he's only been in office for a year, and yet
they're and yet they think that everything should be solved,
all the Biden problems should be solved by now.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, that's exactly right, Jimmy. So President Trump was sworn
in just last January, right, and look, I've seen these
statistics and I think they're very promising for President Trump
and for Republicans across the country. Under Joe Biden, Republican
I'm sorry, America. Under Joe Biden, America lost. Americans lost
twenty nine hundred dollars in purchasing power. That means that

(02:54):
that prices were increasing faster than wages at that point.
And Trump we've gotten seven hundred dollars of that bag.
So we're about a third of the way there. So
these Democrats and the Republicans that don't like the direction
that President Trump has taken the party, they need to
stop being too arrogant.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
We still have a long way to go.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I would be more pessimistic, Jimmy, if the numbers were
going the opposite way, if Americans were continuing to lose
purchasing power and that number was getting bigger. But it's
beginning to reverse. They just need to be patient. It's happening.
It's very, very good. There's a lot of long term
hope here that's being established in our President Trump's term.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, we found out unfortunately the patients is not our
strong suit, is it.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, No, that's not a very you know, a prevalent
quality of a democracy or any any government that's run
by the people.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Hi, Derek, good to hear from you. Thank you. Terry Schilling,
President at the American Principles Project. It's five fifty seven.