Democrats, You Don’t Need To Be Just Like Republicans To Beat Republicans

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Politics, News, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica, Wash, Thedaily, Joe, Trump, Joewalsh

4.6 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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I wrote a piece last week making clear there was no tent big enough for me and Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for the Senate from Maine. And I oppose Platner, not just because of his Nazi tattoo, but also because he’s inauthentic. He’s dishonest. And I’ve been screaming for a year now that Dems need candidates who are authentic.

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0:00.0	We are not okay.
0:03.0	America is not okay.
0:05.0	And we all know that.
0:07.0	Former Congressman Joe Walsh, this is the social contract with Joe Walsh.
0:11.4	Let's figure out how to get okay together. Hey, I hope you all had a really, really good weekend.
0:30.4	Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there yesterday.
0:35.3	Thank you, moms.
0:37.1	Thank you, moms everywhere. Thank you, moms. Thank you moms everywhere. Thank you for everything that moms do.
0:43.5	I miss my mom. My mom passed, gosh, seven years ago now, 2019, time flies.
0:54.4	I miss her every single day.
0:57.1	Happy Mother's Day to every mom out there.
1:00.1	Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday.
1:03.8	This Monday, just a short message this Monday to start the week,
1:09.7	what promises to be a busy week, what promises to be a
1:13.1	chaotic, a crazy week. I won't get into this today, but this war, not just most of us,
1:22.6	not just most Americans, most people around the world have no fucking clue as to the damage that is being done
1:32.9	because of this war of Donald Trump's, the economic damage, the damage to American esteem,
1:42.5	American power around the world. We'll get into that more tomorrow, but most folks
1:50.4	have no idea, no clue, what a big colossal mammoth mistake this war was. Look, I have been screaming from the mountaintops.
2:09.9	Certainly ever since I became a Democrat almost a year ago, that Democrats need to fight.
2:16.4	If they want to defeat my former political party, if they believe, if Democrats believe,
2:22.3	as I do, that my former political party is an existential threat, I love using that phrase,
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