Episode 975: John Tillman on “The Political Vise”
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Newt talks with John Tillman, CEO of the American Culture Project, about his new book, “The Political Vise: How the Radical Left Controls America and the Path to Regaining Our Liberty.” They discuss how the “radical left” wields power in America and how conservatives should respond. Tillman argues that the left outperforms the right in emotional storytelling, especially on economic issues like gas prices, and contend that conservatives must connect policy to everyday experiences to win public sentiment. Tillman introduces his “political vise” framework, describing politics as a pressurized system in which media pressure from the left, people pressure from the right, and elite influencers, especially government unions, trial lawyers, and nonprofits dependent on government funding, squeeze political decision-makers. Their conversation also examines why Republicans struggle to recruit and retain strong candidates. Tillman argues that people on the right are more drawn to business than politics, that some politicians adopt policy agendas mainly to advance their careers, and that the culture of Washington often pulls conservatives leftward through constituent and donor pressures.
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| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to Nutes World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.0 | I think one of the most interesting things this last week has been the fact that California |
| 0:18.0 | is considering a billionaire tax. the Service Employees International Union |
| 0:23.6 | and United Healthcare Workers West, two of the more radical groups, have collected over |
| 0:28.8 | one and a half million signatures, double the signature requirement, to put a one-time tax |
| 0:35.4 | on billionaire assets on the California ballot. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, I want you to think about this. |
| 0:41.3 | The California billionaire tax act would target the net worth of about 200 people. |
| 0:48.3 | They would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of California residents with assets exceeding a billion. |
| 0:57.3 | And the tax would be due in 2027, but taxpayers could spread the payments over five years. |
| 1:03.4 | So we're talking here about pretty essential money. |
| 1:07.3 | A resident with 20 billion in net worth would only owe a one-time tax of one billion dollars. |
| 1:15.1 | And guess what that's going to do? It's going to guarantee that the remaining billionaires in |
| 1:19.4 | California all leave. I mean, money is easy to scare. And when money gets scared, it picks up |
| 1:26.4 | and it takes off. Just one more example of how out of |
| 1:29.9 | touch with reality the left has become. On a much happier note, King Charles and Queen Camilla |
| 1:36.4 | have visited. Cliss and I were very fortunate in that we were at the canonization of John Henry |
| 1:42.1 | Newman, the most important English Catholic in modern times, |
| 1:45.9 | and Prince Charles, as he was at the time, came to the canonization in Rome. And we actually got |
| 1:51.6 | time to chat with him for a while at a reception. Very charming, very positive, very interested |
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