Rahm Emanuel Is Right, and Rahm Emanuel is also Wrong

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Rahm Emmanuel says the Democratic Brand is toxic. He’s right. But his answer is Dems must only talk about economic issues. He’s wrong. Also, yes, Trump lies all the time, but Democrats could also learn from him when it comes to accessibility. And…every day, we are disappearing people off of our streets. Without due process. That’s really wrong.

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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, staying 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.
0:31.6	Hey, Joe Walsh, former Congressman Joe Walsh, with you this Wednesday.
0:40.8	Again, short week. It feels like a Tuesday to me.
0:45.2	It kind of feels like a Thursday to me. It does not feel like a Wednesday to me. I hope your week is off to a good start this short week of yours. We are still only two days removed from
0:51.4	Memorial Day, right? Honoring and thinking about and giving thanks to those men
0:57.2	and women who sacrificed it all so that we can be here this Wednesday. Hey, this week I'm having
1:06.2	a conversation with my black activist on the south side of Chicago. We're not going to get into that
1:14.7	today. We're going to devote most of Thursdays and Friday's show to that conversation about
1:22.0	black men, black women, race, blacks and the Democratic Party, blacks and Trump. A fascinating conversation.
1:30.8	I'm going to remind you all that the longer versions and the full version of that conversation
1:36.5	is up on my substack, social contract with joe walsh.substack.com. Check out all of that.
1:46.5	Content. There is, Keith. Thanks. And we'll get to that again on Thursday and Friday. But I got just this morning,
1:50.8	I just got four things I got to get off of my chest. And I'm going to start here.
1:59.1	And this is a reminder.
2:05.2	Man, I do this almost every day.
2:06.9	This is a daily reminder.
2:09.7	This is not who we are.
2:11.7	This is not who we are.
2:13.5	We are better than this.
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