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Ryan Helfenbein Good morning, and welcome to the Jenna Ellis Show. Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helenbein filling in for Jenna while she's on vacation. I want to begin with some encouragement. First of all, this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Campus Conversations Encourage Host About Gen Z Men’s Convictions
I spent time at Texas Christian University, yes, that university in Fort Worth, Texas, that is not conservative. it bears the name Christian. But in many ways, it is not in terms of the way the administration has moved, over the last decade or more. I mean, they actually have an LGBTQIA class, and the students were griping about it yesterday at a Pick up the MIC event, for Turning Point. I was actually filling in and doing that event. And after everything we've been discussing about the election, I just want to encourage you, with some of the conversations that I had with those students. The majority of those conversations were great. They were very engaging. They were thoughtful. students had just some superb questions and topics that they brought up in conversation. And I asked, you know, did you vote in the election? And who did you vote for? And why is America a Christian nation? Should we abolish abortion? And many men came up to the microphone. many young men. And what I saw was not concerning. What I witnessed was not concerning. Actually, I was very encouraged by these Gen Z men. they had some very thought provoking questions. they too were concerned about the election. They were concerned about the Republican Party. They ask, why do we go to war with Iran? They're asking questions about trust when it comes to the media and when it comes to the government. they want America to be a strong nation. They want America to not only be strong militarily, but they want the nation to be strong spiritually. And they wanted to know what the future of this country looked like for them. Would this be the kind of country where men have a place in it? And, what is the future of affordability looking like for them? The question that they asked had to do with the American dream. some of the strongest liberal objections, I didn't get many, but all of them came from women, particularly on abortion and on the importance of Christianity to the founding of our nation and to our civic framework. the young men were the ones that were actually coming out in defending the unborn. They're not embarrassed about it. They weren't backing away. they didn't care if people called them patriarchal or misogynistic. they were unashamed to be pro life. And that was very, very encouraging.
Charlie Kirk’s Faith And Campus Legacy Inspire A New Generation
I did have one student come up and ask me, and I wanted to share this today. He said to me, do you think you're representing Charlie Kirk? Do you think you're carrying out his legacy? And when he asked that question, I'll be honest, I didn't know, based on the tone of that question, how he was asking it, if that was a friendly question or if it was an antagonistic one. But my answer was going to be the same either way. I knew Charlie and I knew him pretty well. we spent a lot of time together. I'm the executive director of the Standing for Freedom center right here at Liberty University, and he co founded this organization. And if Charlie were here, Charlie would say, do not make this about me, make it about Jesus. And I will never forget, in those words famously said in his last interview, I want to be remembered for the courage, for my faith. The most important thing is my faith. Not just any kind of faith, but his faith in Jesus Christ. That's what Charlie meant. That's what he said. That's what he made his life about. That's what his marriage was about. That's what his fatherhood was about. That's what his leadership was about at Turning Point usa. And it's absolutely worth remembering now. I cannot hold a candle to what Charlie did. There are many other people, when we talk about going on campus, picking up the mic, doing these events, there are many people that are doing it across the country. We can't hold a candle to what he did. He's incredible. He was phenomenal. his debate style, his ability, to speak to Students to engage them, to persuade them. Not only to provoke thought, but to persuade. He was so good at that. And I'll just tell you, one of the most difficult things for a guy like me, and I'm older than Charlie, is not only thinking of the right answer in the moment, but having oftentimes too many answers and which one's the best one. When I watched Charlie do those things by video, oh, my goodness, he was phenomenal. He could connect with Gen Z in an incredible way. And when you look at what happened in this election and when you look across the country and we take all of these polls and surveys and it's all over the place, but the biggest swing was Gen Z. They're not loyal to party. They are loyal to ideas. They're loyal to whatever they think is going to move this, this landscape forward for America. Now, Gen Z conservatives are very principled. That's what I met yesterday. These are not the swing voters. these are ones that are the bedrock, I believe, of our movement.
Republican Leaders Face Blame For Failures And Poor Messaging
But, a friend of mine, Cliff Malone, Citizens alliance CEO, wrote On X yesterday, asking Americans to vote to honor Charlie is one thing. Asking elected officials to take real action that Charlie would want and failing. Despicable. It's not the voters, it's the elected class of establishment Republicans who failed us. It's time for a new generation of leaders who will actually get the job done. And when you look at what happened, especially in 2026, in the, the latter part of 2025, there's a lot of blame to go around. Certainly there's blame at the White House on messaging. the president would have signed anything that was brought to his desk by Senate Republicans. It was the failure of Senate Republicans to act. Yesterday, Congressman Chip Roy addressed Republican failures at the forum hosted by Heritage foundation, and he criticized the party's candidate choices, its handling of corruption concerns, and its failure to explain its own legislative record. Let me just warn you in this clip, Chip is very ticked off right now. Go ahead and play the clip.
Abraham Hamilton III Data centers and AI. You know why people were off about data centers? I can tell you because I was campaigning statewide in Texas. They were off. Not because of water and electricity. That was a small part. It was because you have AI bosses, including Elon, saying, don't worry, you're going to lose your job in 10 years. You're going to have universal wage while your kids are addicted to, to porn and your kids are addicted to sports gambling, and you're going to have this big box in your backyard and you're Going to like it because we got to beat China. You know what the American people did? They said that. And you know what? I was kind of with them. I got to be honest with you, I'm a little off. I'm, off at a Republican establishment that embraced corrupt people at the top of the ticket. Too often, you can't win an election and beat corruption. When you put at the top of your ticket in Texas someone that we knew to have massive issues, you can't and then, by the way, spend $500 million trying to chase winning that one race at the expense of all the others. That's about power seeking. That's about power grabbing. You can't win an election when you make the first thing you do after the big, beautiful bill be about redistricting. With all due respect to the political operation in the White House, you messed up. You went around the country saying, I want more power. You went around the country saying, make it about me, the politicians, instead about you, the people. The ticket forward for the average American right now is what are we going to do to save the American dream for our kids and our grandkids? What are we going to do to make them be able to buy a house, start a business, afford, health care?
James Keena Says Republicans Lost Voters Through Policy And Neglect
Ryan Helfenbein Joining me now is James Keena, author of the Elites versus Everyone Else. James, welcome to the program. You just heard Chip Roy. Voters, of course, are frustrated. Chip Roy had laid out a lot of arguments there about redistricting efforts, the money that was spent in Texas. There's a lot of things going on, but there wasn't a whole lot of record other than the big, beautiful bill. And then, of course, on the issue of affordability, I think there was a failing of messaging. but what are your thoughts? What's your reaction to all this?
James Keena Well, first, Rhyen, thanks for having me on M. I really appreciate it. well, my reaction is that the Republican Party deserved what it got. And I say that for a number of reasons. The war in Iran. I think, a lot of people around the country are questioning what that was about. The higher prices, some of which came from the war and the price of oil. His tariff program drove up prices on the shelves at stores. His big, beautiful bill, which drove, another $2 trillion deficit, is driving general inflation, which is also raising prices. they promised progress on a lot of investigations. You know, Fauci and Covid. Russiagate, January 6th, all the fraud that's going around the country, the Epstein mess, we really got nothing out of that. And then to, tie into your Comments about your visit to TCU and Gen Z. they really didn't speak to Gen Z at all. They were tone deaf, to them. And so As a result 70% of Gen Z voted Democratic. They've been marinated their whole lives in the school systems with socialism. And I think when they look at the world, we're 40 trillion in debt, the surveillance state is getting bigger and bigger. They can't afford a house. They went to college and got a lot of debt, but they can't get a good job. inflation keeps going on. It seems like we're at war with each other over gender, class and ethnicity. There's fraud and abuse everywhere. The political system seems rigged. There's a growing wealth gap in the country. Gen Z looks at that and says, man, I'm desperate. Even if I have to look to socialism, I'm going to look to something different. And I think that's where Republicans have gone off the rails.
Ryan Helfenbein You know, it's interesting everything you just laid out, I'm going to say amen to. That's incredible analysis. and so on point. You know, we can look at this country as a right versus left and certainly that's appropriate when you look at policies or diametrically opposed M. We're more divided than ever and it's a division of worldview and ideology at this point. There is, you know, no loyal opposition anymore. we can't agree on so many of the same issues like before. This is not your old Democratic Party. This is not the party of Bill Clinton, or even of Jimmy Carter. I mean it's absolutely radical. But you could divide it right versus left. You can also divide it between the accountable and the unaccountable. And I look at Gen Z and there's a lot of young people and there are many voters, the middle class voters who have to pay income tax on what they earn and then on top of what they earn they have to pay additional taxes. They look around at the state of immigration, they look at H1B visas. I mean look at the number of college graduates, $2 trillion in counting in college debt and they're trying to go get jobs and then they find out that somebody from Pakistan or Bangladesh or somewhere else halfway across the world on a work visa, on some kind of exchange program are now living in houses and they have those jobs. The youngest generation, they are going to be accountable. But we have a political class that's largely unaccountable. As we wrap real quick, James, your thoughts on that?
James Keena I agree with you, completely. I think we have an unaccountable political class. We have this fusion of finance and politics, that has taken over, the political structure of the country and its institutions. And the people who work hard in America have lost sight of that completely. And they, they don't, they don't accept what's going on in Washington and something different's going to happen.
Ryan Helfenbein Absolutely. Folks, you're listening to Jetta Ellis in the Morning. We'll be right back after this.
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Host Criticizes Republican Inaction On Sharia And Immigration Issues
Brandon Gill Sharia law and radical Islam have no place in the United States. You know, there's a fundamental truth that I think we've got to recognize, which is that not all cultures are created equal and they are not all equally compatible with America's governing framework. the reality is that radical Islam as a political ideology has a very different conception of freedom of speech than we have in the United States. A very different conception of freedom of religion, of separation of church and state, or of mosque and state. Islam as a political ideology is inherently imperialistic and we see that now unfortunately, all over the Western world.
Ryan Helfenbein Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helfenbein filling in for Jenna while she's on vacation. You just heard the words of Texas Congressman Brandon Gill. And let me just tell you, we, are in an environment that is very, very different, very, very different from where we were five, 10 years ago. In this election, there were over two hundred and fifty races where Muslims were seated as representatives. And I want to be very, very clear, I'm talking about Islam as an ideology, not just a religion. Islam as a political system. Islam as basically Sharia law that is inextricably tied to core religious tenets. You cannot fundamentally separate those two. And in fact, a good Muslim wouldn't if they're following the Koran. Brandon Gill, and I want everybody to pay attention to this, what Brandon Gill just said. Most Republicans, including Republicans that were leading Texas, I'm talking about the managerial class, I'm talking about the people that were actually in power, including Greg Abbott, who by the way was Consistently late. He was slow. Ron DeSantis was cooking, firing on all cylinders. They got all kinds of legislation passed in Florida. You know who was late? Texas. Texas was late. Consistently late. What Brandon Gill just said, most Republicans in Texas would not dare say, and he has the courage to say it. Now, some of you. Now, some of you listening are understanding this. You've been understanding this for a long time. And we're looking at the election. And there's a lot of finger pointing and pointing at the White House, pointing at the Senate, of course, but look how Florida survived and Texas didn't. There was no firewall protection for the tsunami that came in Texas, but there was in Florida what Brandon Gill just said about Sharia law being incompatible. Those words were never really uttered by Greg Abbott. Yes, he went after Epic City, but only after being pressured. Yes, he's going to be going after Sharia courts now that he lost the election. But there is so much more that he was late on. And guess what? Brandon Gill won his district by 10 points. He carried his district by 10 points. You know who else won in his district? James Talarico. Gina Hinojosa. Talarico won by eight points. Gina won by two. Brandon Gill is the future of the Republican Party. And that's why, because he's not afraid to confront these issues. He's not Islamophobic for telling the truth. And the future of the Republican Party is not this moderate, managerial chamber of Commerce class that will allow for endless immigration, who will not be strong on borders, who celebrates Diwali. By the way, that was Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who celebrated Diwally Day, from the Capitol building in Austin, Texas. There's other reasons why Republicans lost in Texas, and it's not just Ken Paxton, and we have to be honest about that. And so this is a moment where there is a purging going on in the Republican Party. And many of these moderates have lost their seats. Yes, the immoral as well. Ken Paxton was a flawed candidate. Let's not lose sight of that. $500 million was spent on his race, as Chip Roy had just mentioned. And so we have to. In this postmortem, we have to really be honest. It's going to take courage. It's going to take courage to say things like that as we fight for the identity of this nation. What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be assimilated into America, to become a naturalized citizen? And these are important questions. And many Republicans have failed to address that issue in a serious Way. Steven Miller, Very dogmatic on this issue. Very honest, eyes wide open. And guess what? Young people are drawn to that kind of virility and strength and honesty that older Republicans. They just didn't want to deal with it.
Guy Paul Nora Explains How Gas And Groceries Shaped Election Results
Joining me now is Guy Paul Nora. He's the author of not on Our Watch, A, Young Soldier's Warning to A Memoir from the Lebanese Civil War. He has a recent article over at his substack. The election is over. The responsibility to lead isn't. Guy, welcome to the program. Good morning.
Guy Paul Nohra Thank you so much, Rhyen. It's a pleasure to be on.
Ryan Helfenbein Well, Guy, you've learned a lot. You've run, for governor. you know, there's a whirlwind that's coming in January. Democrats are taking over. We're seating a lot of Democrats now in the Senate. There was a tsunami. It wasn't just a blue wave. It grew. there's a lot of unrest right now in America over the affordability crisis, which I think has more to do with a failure of messaging on the part of Republicans. but one of the leading issues was the issue of immigration. And when it actually came to Hispanic voters, at least nationwide, 15%, according to Exit polls. We'll look at more of this. 15% cared about that issue. Latinos. M. That was not a losing issue for Republicans. But there were other issues. Iran, affordability. There were other issues. Corruption. help us sort of break this down from your perspective.
Guy Paul Nohra Sure. so I'll put on several hats here as we speak, but first and foremost, you know, I've been. When I've been speaking about this issue, I, was warning, you know, six, seven, eight months ago, it's going to be about gas and groceries. and my thesis here, Rhyen, is that, you know, guys like us, you know, are wonks, and we want to find out afterwards, and we should, who did what, when, where, how exactly what group moved from us to another direction. Why did they move? how could it be such a dramatic shift from the last one? But there's something I call the soft middle. You know, these are people who probably don't pay attention like you and I do to politics. They don't pay attention like we do to policy. But, they vote. Especially now that we've been voting so easy for everybody, in a lot of states. Right. So that's. That's your individual who's, complaining about the gas pump, which everybody has been, and. And then goes and buys, you know, they used to shop for on a weekly basis for $85, and now it's $125. And they look at these two things and they want to punish someone. They don't have the time, the energy, whatever it is. You know, they're not going to do the research you and I do. They're just going to go for the. They're just going to vote against. You know, I used to be a venture capitalist, so when things go wrong, you vote again. You know, you get rid of the CEO. So they're going to get rid of the CEO, they're going to vote against the CEO. And that's what I think we really have to face. That was on the top of the things that happened. And then, you know, there are a couple of, secondary issues which didn't help either. But, gas and groceries is always how these things go. And unfortunately, you know, we, that is the conservatives, the Republicans, we were like the accountants kind of explaining to them what happened. And people don't listen to the accountant.
Ryan Helfenbein Yeah, 100% right. People don't want to listen to the accountant. People don't want to listen to the lawyer either. And, you're right. And I think one of the things, and this is, this is true about all of us, if you read the Bible and, you know, I think about the prophets of old in the Old Testament, I, you know, considering this generation, deaf, dumb, blind. And oftentimes people respond better to pain. And it's just a sad truth. Pain and even fear, it's a motivating factor. When people are going to the grocery store and they're looking at the price of eggs, milk, everything else, they're going to blame whoever's in charge. And if it's not getting better, if it's not getting better, they don't understand why. And I think that that was a failure of messaging. And by the way, and it'll be in the next segment, but we're even going to talk about the specifics behind that affordability question, because Trump inherited 21% inflation. But, I want to get into, for the time that we have, you know, maybe what are some constructive things that Republicans can do. Ah, moving forward.
Nora Urges Republicans To Hold Ground Improve Tactics And Explain Achievements
Guy Paul Nohra You know, I put that into two categories. Right. First of all, in the House and in the Senate, we're going to be minorities. So, one of the ways to be constructive is
Guy Paul Nohra make sure that, the other side doesn't go away overboard, on some of the very important governance issues that we have. I think the president has a different situation, you know, he still runs the country. he has a veto power. He,
Guy Paul Nohra knows, you know, he had his priorities. and maybe, you know, I mean, there's been some word about, oh, he might compromise or he might not. well, at least he has a choice if he wants to compromise or not. So I think what Republicans should do is, you know, by the way, everybody's an expert after elections. I remember when I lost, whenever, you know, I was with a bunch of other candidates. So usually what people do is they criticize, A, the consultants who cry all the way to the bank, by the way, in this system of ours, which has to change, it has to be skin in the game. And B, they criticize the candidates. That's always who it is. Consultants and candidates. it's not that simple, but, ah, it just makes it easy. So again, but I do want to answer your question. I believe, I'm going to use a war analogy here since my book is about war and how to survive. You, have to hold the territory you've got, you have got to hold and then you've got to prepare to expand, and 28, whatever that's going to take if it's,
Guy Paul Nohra you know, get, get, go out, get the vote, adjust to, you know, we still haven't adjusted to, to ballot harvesting and, and a lot of these little chicaneries, that the Democrats have put in several states. We're not 100% there, so we've got to, we have to keep getting better, at on a per state basis because every one of them is different. So what the rules of the game are. And then we have to play by those rules. And I think we should be okay. And the messaging was another thing which, you know, in anticipation of your show, I was working on a plane last night and do you, do you realize how much has been achieved that people just have no idea? Oh, of course.
Ryan Helfenbein It's huge. Yeah.
Guy Paul Nohra Revolutionary. Revolutionary. This kind of. You know, I was doing some math last night. Let's take a middle class kid and let's say the family can put in $500 a year. You're looking at millions by the time they're 68. They'll never even need Social Security by the time they're 68. That's just an example. Now when you take the other extreme, which is, someone who gets nothing. Well, still, by the time they're 30, they might have help for a down payment on a house that's Trump accounts. No one talks about that. By the way, the border is closed. Fentanyl drifts are down. for me, if I was ever a one issue guy, it would be the child trafficking. It stopped. They're not trafficking little children and selling them all over the United States for sick people. And on and on. It's unbelievable how people just got sourced. And I would say, and again, there's a malaise in the United States right now, probably in the world, and people are worried about AI, what it's going to do to them. the Biden inflation never really went away because you know this, and I hope your listeners do too. But, inflation, it doesn't go backwards. It only goes one direction. It goes up. So what you want to do when you're in the economy, in the economy side, you want to slow down the growth of inflation. What other Biden. It was just floating because of all the bad policies they had under President Trump. It was going back under control despite the price of gas. Because of the war.
Ryan Helfenbein That's right.
Guy Paul Nohra So
Ryan Helfenbein we're running. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, we're, we're running. We're running out of time, but. Nora, author of not on Our Watch, A Young Soldier's Warning to America, A memoir of the Lebanese Civil War, thank you for coming on. This is about fighting at this point and, it is also about messaging. But things were accomplished and we have to, we have to give credit to Trump on that. We'll be right back after this break.
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Host Calls Conservatives To Fight For Principles And Freedom
Jenna Ellis welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning on American Family Radio.
Ryan Helfenbein Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helfenbein, guest hosting while Jenna is on vacation. Listen, folks, this morning there's a lot of things to gripe about, but we have to get back, to sort of the root causes of all of this. Of course, we have to get back to the principles of what win in America. And we talked about Chip Roy, we talked about Brandon Gill, we're talking about the future of the Republican Party. I want to go back to that scene in Butler, Pennsylvania when the bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear. M so much tragedy in that one moment could have happened, and it was still tragic. We lost an American that day, and it was a tragedy. But one of the things in that moment is that the president stood up and he had the presence of mind to look at that crowd. It's so iconic because the American flag was right behind him. God did that. That wasn't planned. God did it. And he stood up and he said, fight, fight, fight. The question is right now, are we going to, as conservatives, are we going to fight for principles? Are we going to fight for freedom? Are we going to fight the democratic socialist agenda that is trying to overtake this country? They've announced Medicare for all. They've announced breaking the filibuster. They've announced so many things that they want to do making Puerto rico and Washington D.C. a state giving four more Senate seats. They've announced packing the Supreme Court. They want to change the electoral. They want to abolish the electoral College. they want to fundamentally transform America. The question is, are we actually going to fight? And we're talking about the young leaders in the party. Jace, Yarborough, Brandon Gill, Steven Miller, these men want to fight on a principled basis. And if there's any leftists who are listening, we mean that euphemistically. We don't mean actual street brawl fighting like the left does. We're not talking about political violence, but we are talking about having backbone, standing up, having courage. That's what's needed more than ever now.
Host And Guest Debate Inflation Metrics And Republican Economic Messaging
The message on affordability was lost in translation. And Vanliere Jones talked about this earlier in the week. We played the clip on cnn, the American Accountability Project, where they were messaging ad nauseam about affordability. By the way, all of this was inherited from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It was overwhelming. All of that growth came from adding to the money supply during COVID Too many dollars, chasing too few goods. And we have this analysis, from Victor Davis Hansen, in a recent interview with Glenn Beck. And I'll just tell you, I really appreciate Dr. Hansen. There are so many books that I could point to. it's a masterpiece. His case for Donald Trump back in, 2016 when that book came out, encourage people. If you haven't picked that up, many of you probably have read it. It's excellent. But I want to play this clip. what he breaks down is superb in his analysis. Go ahead and play the clip.
Victor Davis Hansen. 165,000 new jobs were just announced. I know, I know. And they were saying 45amonth ago. The poverty rate is at an all time low at 10.5. The per capita, family income is 87,000. A new record. The GDP was just revised at 3.4 and the Atlanta Fed said it'll be 5 by the end of the year. It's actually, nobody's talking, we're just fighting. And we are in the midst of a boom that is emerging. And I look back at 2020, when the Red wave dissipated and why did the blue bay wave not. So I compared the data m. The stock market is 20, at least until yesterday, was 20,000 points higher now than when Biden stopped the red wave. And income is $14,000 higher than it was just four years ago. So then people say it's inflation, it's gas. Well, no, it isn't because that was a 9.1 record inflation year in 2022. And gas on election day was somewhere between $3 and 95 cents and 405, it's 406 today. So what I'm getting at, the economy was a wreck. The GDP was lower, the inflation was three times higher. the gas was about the same. People were furious about Africa. So what, what, what was the difference? And I think the only thing I could come up with is Donald Trump came in with a 21% inflation rate and people said he'll lower it. But you can't do that unless you have a recession or deflationary, depression. So he lowered the rate of inflation to 2.4 the first year. Even this year it's going to be low less than half of the, It'll be about half or a little bit more than the 5% that Biden averaged every year. But they never, I think there weren't people that went out to the People and said, prices are high and we can't lower those, but we can lower the rate inflation and we can increase the per capita family income. So you can absorb that. I think part of the problem with Donald Trump was they had nobody telling the story. They had no one telling the story, and they needed to do that.
Ryan Helfenbein Look, guys, going Back to the 1980s, this is exactly what Reagan was faced with out of those Jimmy Carter years after the OPEC oil crisis and everything else that drove up inflation. some of you listeners, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Interest rates on homes were something like 13% in the early 1980s, but the messaging was lost. And one of the things that was a great credit to Ronald Reagan was he was the great communicator. I'll say President Trump's a great communicator, too, in terms of breaking it down to the average Joe. But most people are saying, what gives? Prices aren't coming down. No, no, no, no. Prices can't come down. But what we can do is raise incomes in this country. What we can do is, is expand and grow the economy, grow gdp, grow opportunity. And that's actually what the President has done. No, he hasn't lowered the prices, but everything else can be raised up. And that has actually been the strategy. It just was never messaged on. Joining me now is David Huber. He's a deacon at Paak Meadows Baptist Church. He's also a member of the Tradeway investment advisory firm. David, welcome to Jenn Ellis in the Morning.
Dave Huber Hey, Rhyen, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Ryan Helfenbein Absolutely. Listen, help us break this down from your perspective. I, mean, you know a lot about these issues. Help us to break this down.
Huber Explains Inflation As Money Losing Value And Hurting Families
Dave Huber Yeah. So here's the thing. You've been talking about inflation, and it really is the enemy of affordability. Inflation is kind of the thing that drives affordability away from our grasp. And we understand that, but we don't truly understand what affordability, or rather what inflation is. That's the problem that most Americans have. They don't really understand inflation. See, we think of inflation as prices getting higher, prices getting bigger. And that's true. That's what we see. What we don't see is the cause of that is our money is getting cheaper. And it's kind of like this. Like, when something is rare, it's expensive. Think diamonds and gold and silver and computer chips right now are kind of rare. They're hard to get, so they're expensive. Right. But when something's abundant, something like toilet, paper, you can go to the store and see it all over the shelves. Now, maybe that wasn't the case back in 2020, but you can see toilet paper all over the shelves. And that's not going to be super expensive. Now you'll remember when it was off the shelves in 2020, it got expensive. So we have this supply and demand dynamic that happens, that causes prices to go up and down. What most people don't understand is that happens to our money too. See, when the government raises the debt ceiling, when the government prints money, when the government goes and spends more money, they are literally cheapening our money. And the symptom that we see of that is prices going up. But what's actually happening is our money is getting cheap because they're infusing so much money into the economy that there's a lot of money. Now you go, I don't have a lot of money. But the economy sees a lot of money. It cheapens the money that you have. And that's what makes things feel so expensive. And so because we don't understand this, we look to the wrong solution. We're literally looking at government and we're looking at the Democrats who are promising us that they're going to go and spend a lot of money to fix the problem. They're going to spend money on universal health care, they're going to spend money on all these different government run programs that are supposed to fix the problem. What the average American doesn't realize is it's those expenditures that cheapen their money. All of those things that Democrats want to do are literally the culprit for the inflation that causes unaffordability. Like we see it, we saw it back in 2020. We infused so much money into our American economy, we printed more money in two years from 2020 to 2022 than we had in our entire existence of a nation. And not just more, we're talking like five times more. When Biden took office
Ryan Helfenbein and the auto pen took control, all of a sudden we went, we went through the roof on inflation. And what Donald Trump has done since then
Dave Huber has worked, like you were just mentioning, to reverse that by actually focusing on the part that Americans are supposed to focus on. See, we can't look to the government to fix the issues. You can't even just say. You can't even just say, okay, Donald Trump will fix it all. He's doing what we need him to do, and that is to get government out of the equation as much as possible.
Ryan Helfenbein So he's lowering the inflation rate. He's increasing. So the average family income in just two years has grown by $14,000 for the American family. so the only way to battle it is that you can't lower prices. But what you can do is try to grow the economy and grow the incomes of the average ordinary American. And I'll just say this. My income has grown. I know many people, their income has grown over that period of time. Their income has actually gone up. Now, there's some who might be listening right now and saying, yeah, it doesn't feel like it. And there might be a lot of people listening, say, listen, my income, I'm on a fixed income. My income hasn't grown at all. And that's understandable. But I want to shift gears
Dave Huber because their money is getting cheapened.
Ryan Helfenbein Exactly. And that is the biggest robber. It's the biggest robber of retirement accounts. It's the biggest robber of Savings accounts, 401ks. When you, yes, they went up, I mean, you look at, the S and P, it went up, by 20,000 points over that period of time, from Biden to Trump. so much of what you focus on in your profession is educating ordinary families, to build financial arcs, to protect. And so I want to talk a lot about that, too, because I think it's important.
Tradeway Promotes Stewardship And Investment Education For Families
we have to get educated, and we have to recognize that there are resources. and what you said is so good. It's not what the government can do for us. It's what you can do for yourself and for your family.
Dave Huber You know, Rhyen, the very word economy comes from a Greek word that means house law. It's something that rests on our shoulders as the American public to fix the economy. And that might seem like a big task and impossible for us, but it's not that. It's not that big. All we have to do is focus on what God has given us to steward, right? And so what we do, and the scripture backs this up, you know, you got right to personal property. When you see Exodus, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet. That tells us that personal property is important. Socialists don't want that. Democrats don't want that. Second, Thessalonians, if a man doesn't work, he won't eat, right? Like, so we're supposed to have this personal responsibility. So here at Tradeway, what we do is we help our fellow Americans, our brothers and sisters in Christ, understand what their role looks like for that personal role. Like, what can we do with our money if it's getting destroyed? How are we ever going to make enough of it to help our families? Well, the truth is you can't, you don't have enough time in your life to make enough of it. What you have to do is put it to work for you. If you're too busy working for money and you're not putting it to work for you, you're going to play a losing game. And so we teach them how to put their money to work for them by educating them, on proper investment and trading principles in the U.S. stocks and options market.
Ryan Helfenbein Yes. Hey, real quick, do you have a link for that?
Dave Huber We do. So if you want to learn more, we actually have a five day challenge. It's coming up on December 9th. We will teach you the four skills you must learn to be successful in stocks and options trading. By the end of the class, you'll have your first professional stock trading strategy. It only costs 97 bucks to attend. and there's a full money back guarantee. And the link to that is tradeway.com ristradeway.com R Y A N
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Jenna Ellis I love talking about the things of God. Because of truth and the biblical worldview. The U.S. constitution obligates our government to preserve and protect the rights that our founders recognize come from God our creator, not our government. I believe that scripture in the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raised up each of you. And God has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment in time.
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Ryan Helfenbein Good morning, and welcome to the Jenna Ellis Show. Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helenbein filling in for Jenna while she's on vacation. I want to begin with some encouragement. First of all, this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Campus Conversations Encourage Host About Gen Z Men’s Convictions
I spent time at Texas Christian University, yes, that university in Fort Worth, Texas, that is not conservative. it bears the name Christian. But in many ways, it is not in terms of the way the administration has moved, over the last decade or more. I mean, they actually have an LGBTQIA class, and the students were griping about it yesterday at a Pick up the MIC event, for Turning Point. I was actually filling in and doing that event. And after everything we've been discussing about the election, I just want to encourage you, with some of the conversations that I had with those students. The majority of those conversations were great. They were very engaging. They were thoughtful. students had just some superb questions and topics that they brought up in conversation. And I asked, you know, did you vote in the election? And who did you vote for? And why is America a Christian nation? Should we abolish abortion? And many men came up to the microphone. many young men. And what I saw was not concerning. What I witnessed was not concerning. Actually, I was very encouraged by these Gen Z men. they had some very thought provoking questions. they too were concerned about the election. They were concerned about the Republican Party. They ask, why do we go to war with Iran? They're asking questions about trust when it comes to the media and when it comes to the government. they want America to be a strong nation. They want America to not only be strong militarily, but they want the nation to be strong spiritually. And they wanted to know what the future of this country looked like for them. Would this be the kind of country where men have a place in it? And, what is the future of affordability looking like for them? The question that they asked had to do with the American dream. some of the strongest liberal objections, I didn't get many, but all of them came from women, particularly on abortion and on the importance of Christianity to the founding of our nation and to our civic framework. the young men were the ones that were actually coming out in defending the unborn. They're not embarrassed about it. They weren't backing away. they didn't care if people called them patriarchal or misogynistic. they were unashamed to be pro life. And that was very, very encouraging.
Charlie Kirk’s Faith And Campus Legacy Inspire A New Generation
I did have one student come up and ask me, and I wanted to share this today. He said to me, do you think you're representing Charlie Kirk? Do you think you're carrying out his legacy? And when he asked that question, I'll be honest, I didn't know, based on the tone of that question, how he was asking it, if that was a friendly question or if it was an antagonistic one. But my answer was going to be the same either way. I knew Charlie and I knew him pretty well. we spent a lot of time together. I'm the executive director of the Standing for Freedom center right here at Liberty University, and he co founded this organization. And if Charlie were here, Charlie would say, do not make this about me, make it about Jesus. And I will never forget, in those words famously said in his last interview, I want to be remembered for the courage, for my faith. The most important thing is my faith. Not just any kind of faith, but his faith in Jesus Christ. That's what Charlie meant. That's what he said. That's what he made his life about. That's what his marriage was about. That's what his fatherhood was about. That's what his leadership was about at Turning Point usa. And it's absolutely worth remembering now. I cannot hold a candle to what Charlie did. There are many other people, when we talk about going on campus, picking up the mic, doing these events, there are many people that are doing it across the country. We can't hold a candle to what he did. He's incredible. He was phenomenal. his debate style, his ability, to speak to Students to engage them, to persuade them. Not only to provoke thought, but to persuade. He was so good at that. And I'll just tell you, one of the most difficult things for a guy like me, and I'm older than Charlie, is not only thinking of the right answer in the moment, but having oftentimes too many answers and which one's the best one. When I watched Charlie do those things by video, oh, my goodness, he was phenomenal. He could connect with Gen Z in an incredible way. And when you look at what happened in this election and when you look across the country and we take all of these polls and surveys and it's all over the place, but the biggest swing was Gen Z. They're not loyal to party. They are loyal to ideas. They're loyal to whatever they think is going to move this, this landscape forward for America. Now, Gen Z conservatives are very principled. That's what I met yesterday. These are not the swing voters. these are ones that are the bedrock, I believe, of our movement.
Republican Leaders Face Blame For Failures And Poor Messaging
But, a friend of mine, Cliff Malone, Citizens alliance CEO, wrote On X yesterday, asking Americans to vote to honor Charlie is one thing. Asking elected officials to take real action that Charlie would want and failing. Despicable. It's not the voters, it's the elected class of establishment Republicans who failed us. It's time for a new generation of leaders who will actually get the job done. And when you look at what happened, especially in 2026, in the, the latter part of 2025, there's a lot of blame to go around. Certainly there's blame at the White House on messaging. the president would have signed anything that was brought to his desk by Senate Republicans. It was the failure of Senate Republicans to act. Yesterday, Congressman Chip Roy addressed Republican failures at the forum hosted by Heritage foundation, and he criticized the party's candidate choices, its handling of corruption concerns, and its failure to explain its own legislative record. Let me just warn you in this clip, Chip is very ticked off right now. Go ahead and play the clip.
Abraham Hamilton III Data centers and AI. You know why people were off about data centers? I can tell you because I was campaigning statewide in Texas. They were off. Not because of water and electricity. That was a small part. It was because you have AI bosses, including Elon, saying, don't worry, you're going to lose your job in 10 years. You're going to have universal wage while your kids are addicted to, to porn and your kids are addicted to sports gambling, and you're going to have this big box in your backyard and you're Going to like it because we got to beat China. You know what the American people did? They said that. And you know what? I was kind of with them. I got to be honest with you, I'm a little off. I'm, off at a Republican establishment that embraced corrupt people at the top of the ticket. Too often, you can't win an election and beat corruption. When you put at the top of your ticket in Texas someone that we knew to have massive issues, you can't and then, by the way, spend $500 million trying to chase winning that one race at the expense of all the others. That's about power seeking. That's about power grabbing. You can't win an election when you make the first thing you do after the big, beautiful bill be about redistricting. With all due respect to the political operation in the White House, you messed up. You went around the country saying, I want more power. You went around the country saying, make it about me, the politicians, instead about you, the people. The ticket forward for the average American right now is what are we going to do to save the American dream for our kids and our grandkids? What are we going to do to make them be able to buy a house, start a business, afford, health care?
James Keena Says Republicans Lost Voters Through Policy And Neglect
Ryan Helfenbein Joining me now is James Keena, author of the Elites versus Everyone Else. James, welcome to the program. You just heard Chip Roy. Voters, of course, are frustrated. Chip Roy had laid out a lot of arguments there about redistricting efforts, the money that was spent in Texas. There's a lot of things going on, but there wasn't a whole lot of record other than the big, beautiful bill. And then, of course, on the issue of affordability, I think there was a failing of messaging. but what are your thoughts? What's your reaction to all this?
James Keena Well, first, Rhyen, thanks for having me on M. I really appreciate it. well, my reaction is that the Republican Party deserved what it got. And I say that for a number of reasons. The war in Iran. I think, a lot of people around the country are questioning what that was about. The higher prices, some of which came from the war and the price of oil. His tariff program drove up prices on the shelves at stores. His big, beautiful bill, which drove, another $2 trillion deficit, is driving general inflation, which is also raising prices. they promised progress on a lot of investigations. You know, Fauci and Covid. Russiagate, January 6th, all the fraud that's going around the country, the Epstein mess, we really got nothing out of that. And then to, tie into your Comments about your visit to TCU and Gen Z. they really didn't speak to Gen Z at all. They were tone deaf, to them. And so As a result 70% of Gen Z voted Democratic. They've been marinated their whole lives in the school systems with socialism. And I think when they look at the world, we're 40 trillion in debt, the surveillance state is getting bigger and bigger. They can't afford a house. They went to college and got a lot of debt, but they can't get a good job. inflation keeps going on. It seems like we're at war with each other over gender, class and ethnicity. There's fraud and abuse everywhere. The political system seems rigged. There's a growing wealth gap in the country. Gen Z looks at that and says, man, I'm desperate. Even if I have to look to socialism, I'm going to look to something different. And I think that's where Republicans have gone off the rails.
Ryan Helfenbein You know, it's interesting everything you just laid out, I'm going to say amen to. That's incredible analysis. and so on point. You know, we can look at this country as a right versus left and certainly that's appropriate when you look at policies or diametrically opposed M. We're more divided than ever and it's a division of worldview and ideology at this point. There is, you know, no loyal opposition anymore. we can't agree on so many of the same issues like before. This is not your old Democratic Party. This is not the party of Bill Clinton, or even of Jimmy Carter. I mean it's absolutely radical. But you could divide it right versus left. You can also divide it between the accountable and the unaccountable. And I look at Gen Z and there's a lot of young people and there are many voters, the middle class voters who have to pay income tax on what they earn and then on top of what they earn they have to pay additional taxes. They look around at the state of immigration, they look at H1B visas. I mean look at the number of college graduates, $2 trillion in counting in college debt and they're trying to go get jobs and then they find out that somebody from Pakistan or Bangladesh or somewhere else halfway across the world on a work visa, on some kind of exchange program are now living in houses and they have those jobs. The youngest generation, they are going to be accountable. But we have a political class that's largely unaccountable. As we wrap real quick, James, your thoughts on that?
James Keena I agree with you, completely. I think we have an unaccountable political class. We have this fusion of finance and politics, that has taken over, the political structure of the country and its institutions. And the people who work hard in America have lost sight of that completely. And they, they don't, they don't accept what's going on in Washington and something different's going to happen.
Ryan Helfenbein Absolutely. Folks, you're listening to Jetta Ellis in the Morning. We'll be right back after this.
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Host Criticizes Republican Inaction On Sharia And Immigration Issues
Brandon Gill Sharia law and radical Islam have no place in the United States. You know, there's a fundamental truth that I think we've got to recognize, which is that not all cultures are created equal and they are not all equally compatible with America's governing framework. the reality is that radical Islam as a political ideology has a very different conception of freedom of speech than we have in the United States. A very different conception of freedom of religion, of separation of church and state, or of mosque and state. Islam as a political ideology is inherently imperialistic and we see that now unfortunately, all over the Western world.
Ryan Helfenbein Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helfenbein filling in for Jenna while she's on vacation. You just heard the words of Texas Congressman Brandon Gill. And let me just tell you, we, are in an environment that is very, very different, very, very different from where we were five, 10 years ago. In this election, there were over two hundred and fifty races where Muslims were seated as representatives. And I want to be very, very clear, I'm talking about Islam as an ideology, not just a religion. Islam as a political system. Islam as basically Sharia law that is inextricably tied to core religious tenets. You cannot fundamentally separate those two. And in fact, a good Muslim wouldn't if they're following the Koran. Brandon Gill, and I want everybody to pay attention to this, what Brandon Gill just said. Most Republicans, including Republicans that were leading Texas, I'm talking about the managerial class, I'm talking about the people that were actually in power, including Greg Abbott, who by the way was Consistently late. He was slow. Ron DeSantis was cooking, firing on all cylinders. They got all kinds of legislation passed in Florida. You know who was late? Texas. Texas was late. Consistently late. What Brandon Gill just said, most Republicans in Texas would not dare say, and he has the courage to say it. Now, some of you. Now, some of you listening are understanding this. You've been understanding this for a long time. And we're looking at the election. And there's a lot of finger pointing and pointing at the White House, pointing at the Senate, of course, but look how Florida survived and Texas didn't. There was no firewall protection for the tsunami that came in Texas, but there was in Florida what Brandon Gill just said about Sharia law being incompatible. Those words were never really uttered by Greg Abbott. Yes, he went after Epic City, but only after being pressured. Yes, he's going to be going after Sharia courts now that he lost the election. But there is so much more that he was late on. And guess what? Brandon Gill won his district by 10 points. He carried his district by 10 points. You know who else won in his district? James Talarico. Gina Hinojosa. Talarico won by eight points. Gina won by two. Brandon Gill is the future of the Republican Party. And that's why, because he's not afraid to confront these issues. He's not Islamophobic for telling the truth. And the future of the Republican Party is not this moderate, managerial chamber of Commerce class that will allow for endless immigration, who will not be strong on borders, who celebrates Diwali. By the way, that was Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who celebrated Diwally Day, from the Capitol building in Austin, Texas. There's other reasons why Republicans lost in Texas, and it's not just Ken Paxton, and we have to be honest about that. And so this is a moment where there is a purging going on in the Republican Party. And many of these moderates have lost their seats. Yes, the immoral as well. Ken Paxton was a flawed candidate. Let's not lose sight of that. $500 million was spent on his race, as Chip Roy had just mentioned. And so we have to. In this postmortem, we have to really be honest. It's going to take courage. It's going to take courage to say things like that as we fight for the identity of this nation. What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be assimilated into America, to become a naturalized citizen? And these are important questions. And many Republicans have failed to address that issue in a serious Way. Steven Miller, Very dogmatic on this issue. Very honest, eyes wide open. And guess what? Young people are drawn to that kind of virility and strength and honesty that older Republicans. They just didn't want to deal with it.
Guy Paul Nora Explains How Gas And Groceries Shaped Election Results
Joining me now is Guy Paul Nora. He's the author of not on Our Watch, A, Young Soldier's Warning to A Memoir from the Lebanese Civil War. He has a recent article over at his substack. The election is over. The responsibility to lead isn't. Guy, welcome to the program. Good morning.
Guy Paul Nohra Thank you so much, Rhyen. It's a pleasure to be on.
Ryan Helfenbein Well, Guy, you've learned a lot. You've run, for governor. you know, there's a whirlwind that's coming in January. Democrats are taking over. We're seating a lot of Democrats now in the Senate. There was a tsunami. It wasn't just a blue wave. It grew. there's a lot of unrest right now in America over the affordability crisis, which I think has more to do with a failure of messaging on the part of Republicans. but one of the leading issues was the issue of immigration. And when it actually came to Hispanic voters, at least nationwide, 15%, according to Exit polls. We'll look at more of this. 15% cared about that issue. Latinos. M. That was not a losing issue for Republicans. But there were other issues. Iran, affordability. There were other issues. Corruption. help us sort of break this down from your perspective.
Guy Paul Nohra Sure. so I'll put on several hats here as we speak, but first and foremost, you know, I've been. When I've been speaking about this issue, I, was warning, you know, six, seven, eight months ago, it's going to be about gas and groceries. and my thesis here, Rhyen, is that, you know, guys like us, you know, are wonks, and we want to find out afterwards, and we should, who did what, when, where, how exactly what group moved from us to another direction. Why did they move? how could it be such a dramatic shift from the last one? But there's something I call the soft middle. You know, these are people who probably don't pay attention like you and I do to politics. They don't pay attention like we do to policy. But, they vote. Especially now that we've been voting so easy for everybody, in a lot of states. Right. So that's. That's your individual who's, complaining about the gas pump, which everybody has been, and. And then goes and buys, you know, they used to shop for on a weekly basis for $85, and now it's $125. And they look at these two things and they want to punish someone. They don't have the time, the energy, whatever it is. You know, they're not going to do the research you and I do. They're just going to go for the. They're just going to vote against. You know, I used to be a venture capitalist, so when things go wrong, you vote again. You know, you get rid of the CEO. So they're going to get rid of the CEO, they're going to vote against the CEO. And that's what I think we really have to face. That was on the top of the things that happened. And then, you know, there are a couple of, secondary issues which didn't help either. But, gas and groceries is always how these things go. And unfortunately, you know, we, that is the conservatives, the Republicans, we were like the accountants kind of explaining to them what happened. And people don't listen to the accountant.
Ryan Helfenbein Yeah, 100% right. People don't want to listen to the accountant. People don't want to listen to the lawyer either. And, you're right. And I think one of the things, and this is, this is true about all of us, if you read the Bible and, you know, I think about the prophets of old in the Old Testament, I, you know, considering this generation, deaf, dumb, blind. And oftentimes people respond better to pain. And it's just a sad truth. Pain and even fear, it's a motivating factor. When people are going to the grocery store and they're looking at the price of eggs, milk, everything else, they're going to blame whoever's in charge. And if it's not getting better, if it's not getting better, they don't understand why. And I think that that was a failure of messaging. And by the way, and it'll be in the next segment, but we're even going to talk about the specifics behind that affordability question, because Trump inherited 21% inflation. But, I want to get into, for the time that we have, you know, maybe what are some constructive things that Republicans can do. Ah, moving forward.
Nora Urges Republicans To Hold Ground Improve Tactics And Explain Achievements
Guy Paul Nohra You know, I put that into two categories. Right. First of all, in the House and in the Senate, we're going to be minorities. So, one of the ways to be constructive is
Guy Paul Nohra make sure that, the other side doesn't go away overboard, on some of the very important governance issues that we have. I think the president has a different situation, you know, he still runs the country. he has a veto power. He,
Guy Paul Nohra knows, you know, he had his priorities. and maybe, you know, I mean, there's been some word about, oh, he might compromise or he might not. well, at least he has a choice if he wants to compromise or not. So I think what Republicans should do is, you know, by the way, everybody's an expert after elections. I remember when I lost, whenever, you know, I was with a bunch of other candidates. So usually what people do is they criticize, A, the consultants who cry all the way to the bank, by the way, in this system of ours, which has to change, it has to be skin in the game. And B, they criticize the candidates. That's always who it is. Consultants and candidates. it's not that simple, but, ah, it just makes it easy. So again, but I do want to answer your question. I believe, I'm going to use a war analogy here since my book is about war and how to survive. You, have to hold the territory you've got, you have got to hold and then you've got to prepare to expand, and 28, whatever that's going to take if it's,
Guy Paul Nohra you know, get, get, go out, get the vote, adjust to, you know, we still haven't adjusted to, to ballot harvesting and, and a lot of these little chicaneries, that the Democrats have put in several states. We're not 100% there, so we've got to, we have to keep getting better, at on a per state basis because every one of them is different. So what the rules of the game are. And then we have to play by those rules. And I think we should be okay. And the messaging was another thing which, you know, in anticipation of your show, I was working on a plane last night and do you, do you realize how much has been achieved that people just have no idea? Oh, of course.
Ryan Helfenbein It's huge. Yeah.
Guy Paul Nohra Revolutionary. Revolutionary. This kind of. You know, I was doing some math last night. Let's take a middle class kid and let's say the family can put in $500 a year. You're looking at millions by the time they're 68. They'll never even need Social Security by the time they're 68. That's just an example. Now when you take the other extreme, which is, someone who gets nothing. Well, still, by the time they're 30, they might have help for a down payment on a house that's Trump accounts. No one talks about that. By the way, the border is closed. Fentanyl drifts are down. for me, if I was ever a one issue guy, it would be the child trafficking. It stopped. They're not trafficking little children and selling them all over the United States for sick people. And on and on. It's unbelievable how people just got sourced. And I would say, and again, there's a malaise in the United States right now, probably in the world, and people are worried about AI, what it's going to do to them. the Biden inflation never really went away because you know this, and I hope your listeners do too. But, inflation, it doesn't go backwards. It only goes one direction. It goes up. So what you want to do when you're in the economy, in the economy side, you want to slow down the growth of inflation. What other Biden. It was just floating because of all the bad policies they had under President Trump. It was going back under control despite the price of gas. Because of the war.
Ryan Helfenbein That's right.
Guy Paul Nohra So
Ryan Helfenbein we're running. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, we're, we're running. We're running out of time, but. Nora, author of not on Our Watch, A Young Soldier's Warning to America, A memoir of the Lebanese Civil War, thank you for coming on. This is about fighting at this point and, it is also about messaging. But things were accomplished and we have to, we have to give credit to Trump on that. We'll be right back after this break.
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Host Calls Conservatives To Fight For Principles And Freedom
Jenna Ellis welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning on American Family Radio.
Ryan Helfenbein Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning. I'm Rhyen Helfenbein, guest hosting while Jenna is on vacation. Listen, folks, this morning there's a lot of things to gripe about, but we have to get back, to sort of the root causes of all of this. Of course, we have to get back to the principles of what win in America. And we talked about Chip Roy, we talked about Brandon Gill, we're talking about the future of the Republican Party. I want to go back to that scene in Butler, Pennsylvania when the bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear. M so much tragedy in that one moment could have happened, and it was still tragic. We lost an American that day, and it was a tragedy. But one of the things in that moment is that the president stood up and he had the presence of mind to look at that crowd. It's so iconic because the American flag was right behind him. God did that. That wasn't planned. God did it. And he stood up and he said, fight, fight, fight. The question is right now, are we going to, as conservatives, are we going to fight for principles? Are we going to fight for freedom? Are we going to fight the democratic socialist agenda that is trying to overtake this country? They've announced Medicare for all. They've announced breaking the filibuster. They've announced so many things that they want to do making Puerto rico and Washington D.C. a state giving four more Senate seats. They've announced packing the Supreme Court. They want to change the electoral. They want to abolish the electoral College. they want to fundamentally transform America. The question is, are we actually going to fight? And we're talking about the young leaders in the party. Jace, Yarborough, Brandon Gill, Steven Miller, these men want to fight on a principled basis. And if there's any leftists who are listening, we mean that euphemistically. We don't mean actual street brawl fighting like the left does. We're not talking about political violence, but we are talking about having backbone, standing up, having courage. That's what's needed more than ever now.
Host And Guest Debate Inflation Metrics And Republican Economic Messaging
The message on affordability was lost in translation. And Vanliere Jones talked about this earlier in the week. We played the clip on cnn, the American Accountability Project, where they were messaging ad nauseam about affordability. By the way, all of this was inherited from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It was overwhelming. All of that growth came from adding to the money supply during COVID Too many dollars, chasing too few goods. And we have this analysis, from Victor Davis Hansen, in a recent interview with Glenn Beck. And I'll just tell you, I really appreciate Dr. Hansen. There are so many books that I could point to. it's a masterpiece. His case for Donald Trump back in, 2016 when that book came out, encourage people. If you haven't picked that up, many of you probably have read it. It's excellent. But I want to play this clip. what he breaks down is superb in his analysis. Go ahead and play the clip.
Victor Davis Hansen. 165,000 new jobs were just announced. I know, I know. And they were saying 45amonth ago. The poverty rate is at an all time low at 10.5. The per capita, family income is 87,000. A new record. The GDP was just revised at 3.4 and the Atlanta Fed said it'll be 5 by the end of the year. It's actually, nobody's talking, we're just fighting. And we are in the midst of a boom that is emerging. And I look back at 2020, when the Red wave dissipated and why did the blue bay wave not. So I compared the data m. The stock market is 20, at least until yesterday, was 20,000 points higher now than when Biden stopped the red wave. And income is $14,000 higher than it was just four years ago. So then people say it's inflation, it's gas. Well, no, it isn't because that was a 9.1 record inflation year in 2022. And gas on election day was somewhere between $3 and 95 cents and 405, it's 406 today. So what I'm getting at, the economy was a wreck. The GDP was lower, the inflation was three times higher. the gas was about the same. People were furious about Africa. So what, what, what was the difference? And I think the only thing I could come up with is Donald Trump came in with a 21% inflation rate and people said he'll lower it. But you can't do that unless you have a recession or deflationary, depression. So he lowered the rate of inflation to 2.4 the first year. Even this year it's going to be low less than half of the, It'll be about half or a little bit more than the 5% that Biden averaged every year. But they never, I think there weren't people that went out to the People and said, prices are high and we can't lower those, but we can lower the rate inflation and we can increase the per capita family income. So you can absorb that. I think part of the problem with Donald Trump was they had nobody telling the story. They had no one telling the story, and they needed to do that.
Ryan Helfenbein Look, guys, going Back to the 1980s, this is exactly what Reagan was faced with out of those Jimmy Carter years after the OPEC oil crisis and everything else that drove up inflation. some of you listeners, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Interest rates on homes were something like 13% in the early 1980s, but the messaging was lost. And one of the things that was a great credit to Ronald Reagan was he was the great communicator. I'll say President Trump's a great communicator, too, in terms of breaking it down to the average Joe. But most people are saying, what gives? Prices aren't coming down. No, no, no, no. Prices can't come down. But what we can do is raise incomes in this country. What we can do is, is expand and grow the economy, grow gdp, grow opportunity. And that's actually what the President has done. No, he hasn't lowered the prices, but everything else can be raised up. And that has actually been the strategy. It just was never messaged on. Joining me now is David Huber. He's a deacon at Paak Meadows Baptist Church. He's also a member of the Tradeway investment advisory firm. David, welcome to Jenn Ellis in the Morning.
Dave Huber Hey, Rhyen, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Ryan Helfenbein Absolutely. Listen, help us break this down from your perspective. I, mean, you know a lot about these issues. Help us to break this down.
Huber Explains Inflation As Money Losing Value And Hurting Families
Dave Huber Yeah. So here's the thing. You've been talking about inflation, and it really is the enemy of affordability. Inflation is kind of the thing that drives affordability away from our grasp. And we understand that, but we don't truly understand what affordability, or rather what inflation is. That's the problem that most Americans have. They don't really understand inflation. See, we think of inflation as prices getting higher, prices getting bigger. And that's true. That's what we see. What we don't see is the cause of that is our money is getting cheaper. And it's kind of like this. Like, when something is rare, it's expensive. Think diamonds and gold and silver and computer chips right now are kind of rare. They're hard to get, so they're expensive. Right. But when something's abundant, something like toilet, paper, you can go to the store and see it all over the shelves. Now, maybe that wasn't the case back in 2020, but you can see toilet paper all over the shelves. And that's not going to be super expensive. Now you'll remember when it was off the shelves in 2020, it got expensive. So we have this supply and demand dynamic that happens, that causes prices to go up and down. What most people don't understand is that happens to our money too. See, when the government raises the debt ceiling, when the government prints money, when the government goes and spends more money, they are literally cheapening our money. And the symptom that we see of that is prices going up. But what's actually happening is our money is getting cheap because they're infusing so much money into the economy that there's a lot of money. Now you go, I don't have a lot of money. But the economy sees a lot of money. It cheapens the money that you have. And that's what makes things feel so expensive. And so because we don't understand this, we look to the wrong solution. We're literally looking at government and we're looking at the Democrats who are promising us that they're going to go and spend a lot of money to fix the problem. They're going to spend money on universal health care, they're going to spend money on all these different government run programs that are supposed to fix the problem. What the average American doesn't realize is it's those expenditures that cheapen their money. All of those things that Democrats want to do are literally the culprit for the inflation that causes unaffordability. Like we see it, we saw it back in 2020. We infused so much money into our American economy, we printed more money in two years from 2020 to 2022 than we had in our entire existence of a nation. And not just more, we're talking like five times more. When Biden took office
Ryan Helfenbein and the auto pen took control, all of a sudden we went, we went through the roof on inflation. And what Donald Trump has done since then
Dave Huber has worked, like you were just mentioning, to reverse that by actually focusing on the part that Americans are supposed to focus on. See, we can't look to the government to fix the issues. You can't even just say. You can't even just say, okay, Donald Trump will fix it all. He's doing what we need him to do, and that is to get government out of the equation as much as possible.
Ryan Helfenbein So he's lowering the inflation rate. He's increasing. So the average family income in just two years has grown by $14,000 for the American family. so the only way to battle it is that you can't lower prices. But what you can do is try to grow the economy and grow the incomes of the average ordinary American. And I'll just say this. My income has grown. I know many people, their income has grown over that period of time. Their income has actually gone up. Now, there's some who might be listening right now and saying, yeah, it doesn't feel like it. And there might be a lot of people listening, say, listen, my income, I'm on a fixed income. My income hasn't grown at all. And that's understandable. But I want to shift gears
Dave Huber because their money is getting cheapened.
Ryan Helfenbein Exactly. And that is the biggest robber. It's the biggest robber of retirement accounts. It's the biggest robber of Savings accounts, 401ks. When you, yes, they went up, I mean, you look at, the S and P, it went up, by 20,000 points over that period of time, from Biden to Trump. so much of what you focus on in your profession is educating ordinary families, to build financial arcs, to protect. And so I want to talk a lot about that, too, because I think it's important.
Tradeway Promotes Stewardship And Investment Education For Families
we have to get educated, and we have to recognize that there are resources. and what you said is so good. It's not what the government can do for us. It's what you can do for yourself and for your family.
Dave Huber You know, Rhyen, the very word economy comes from a Greek word that means house law. It's something that rests on our shoulders as the American public to fix the economy. And that might seem like a big task and impossible for us, but it's not that. It's not that big. All we have to do is focus on what God has given us to steward, right? And so what we do, and the scripture backs this up, you know, you got right to personal property. When you see Exodus, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet. That tells us that personal property is important. Socialists don't want that. Democrats don't want that. Second, Thessalonians, if a man doesn't work, he won't eat, right? Like, so we're supposed to have this personal responsibility. So here at Tradeway, what we do is we help our fellow Americans, our brothers and sisters in Christ, understand what their role looks like for that personal role. Like, what can we do with our money if it's getting destroyed? How are we ever going to make enough of it to help our families? Well, the truth is you can't, you don't have enough time in your life to make enough of it. What you have to do is put it to work for you. If you're too busy working for money and you're not putting it to work for you, you're going to play a losing game. And so we teach them how to put their money to work for them by educating them, on proper investment and trading principles in the U.S. stocks and options market.
Ryan Helfenbein Yes. Hey, real quick, do you have a link for that?
Dave Huber We do. So if you want to learn more, we actually have a five day challenge. It's coming up on December 9th. We will teach you the four skills you must learn to be successful in stocks and options trading. By the end of the class, you'll have your first professional stock trading strategy. It only costs 97 bucks to attend. and there's a full money back guarantee. And the link to that is tradeway.com ristradeway.com R Y A N
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Filling in for Jenna Ellis, Ryan Helfenbein reflects on conversations with students at Texas Christian University and finds reason for hope in a new generation of young conservatives. He shares how students are wrestling with faith, the American dream, abortion, political trust, and the future of the country—and remembers Charlie Kirk’s insistence that the focus should be on Jesus, not himself.The episode turns to the Republican Party’s recent election setbacks, with guests James Keena and Guy Paul Nohra discussing voter frustration, affordability, gas and grocery prices, political accountability, and the party’s struggle to communicate its record. The conversation also examines immigration, cultural change, and the challenges facing the next generation of conservative leadership.
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