Breaking The Two Party Doom Loop. A Conversation With Lee Drutman

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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4.6 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It’s so easy to just yell about Trump every day. It’s too easy. And damn near everyone does it. But Trump is the product of a broken political system. And we need big reform to fix our broken political system. Political scientist Lee Drutman has put forward one such big reform. And we discussed it. Have a listen.

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.3	That means being tolerant, being respectful, stay informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.6	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.1	Hi, everybody, welcome, welcome, welcome Monday night. Come on in, give me a big heart.
0:35.3	Give me Gail, Susan, Bruce, Stephanie, Margie, give me a heart.
0:41.0	Kurtly, Mike, Margie, Katie.
0:45.1	Welcome, everybody.
0:46.5	Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone.
0:49.0	If you are so inclined, please punch those, that red heart.
0:59.3	I've never quite understood exactly what that does,
1:07.3	but I'm told it does something. So please punch those red hearts. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
1:14.1	Merry, Merry Christmas, everybody, Christmas week as we enter Christmas week.
1:28.0	I've got a great, interesting guest this evening talking a little bit more about our broken political system, potential reforms in America that I want to get into.
1:31.4	Oh, cool, Lana, I didn't know that.
1:37.0	Lana said, if you punch the hearts, it moves my little icon towards the front.
1:39.6	That sounds pretty personal.
1:42.4	What if I don't want my little icon touched?
1:44.9	That's a joke. I love it when my little icon touched. That's a joke.
1:48.1	I love it when my little icon is touched.
1:50.2	It's not a little icon.
1:52.2	It's a big icon, damn it.
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