Policy Disagreements Are Okay. Disagreeing About Democracy Is Not

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I gotta be honest, as a new Democrat, I don’t care that much right now about where we disagree on healthcare policy or border policy. We can figure all of that out down the road once we preserve our democracy, once we secure the rule of law. That makes sense, right?

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0:33.1	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:39.9	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:45.8	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:56.0	The social contract, it's on us.
1:04.4	Hey, welcome Thursday morning. It's on us.
1:08.5	Man, I love those words. It's on us.
1:14.8	You want to save this democracy? It's on us. Do you want to abide by the rule of law? It's on us. Do you want to preserve basic human freedoms? It's on us.
1:22.8	This thing, America, this 249-year-old glorious experiment in human freedom, do you want to keep it?
1:33.0	You want to preserve it?
1:35.4	You want America to continue?
1:38.5	It's on us.
1:40.4	It's on us to make sure that happens.
1:42.8	No politician's going to do it. No politician's going to save this country. The American people are. And when you think about it, that makes perfect sense. We, right? When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that the only people who can preserve this 249-year-old experiment in freedom and democracy as us.
2:04.3	We the people.
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