To My Former Republican Colleagues: If You Don’t Want To Be Called Cultists, Don’t Act Like Cultists
The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
The Bravery Project
4.6 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | Let's figure out how to get okay together. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey Tuesday, I always receive a whole bunch of anger. |
| 0:30.4 | When I accuse my former Republican colleagues of being members of a cult, of beingists i always get a bunch of anger from my former |
| 0:44.3 | right-wing media colleagues when i say the same when i say that they are members of a cults |
| 0:58.3 | they're cultists they're an occult. |
| 1:03.8 | And I got to tell you, my former colleagues just hate when I say that. |
| 1:15.9 | I can, it often leads to interesting conversations and I can man I'll tell you what some fascinating studies can and should be done as to why my former colleagues take such umbrage when I call them members of a cult. |
| 1:33.7 | But I call them that. And again, as as is my, my, uh, my M.O. I do my damnedest not to call Trump voters that because I used to be a Trump voter. |
| 1:49.0 | I don't always hold to that rule, but I try my best. |
| 1:54.0 | But when it comes to my former congressional colleagues, these Republican members of Congress, |
| 2:00.0 | and all these conservative right-wing |
| 2:03.4 | talk radio guys and Fox News guys, the world I used to be a part of, man, I'll call them members |
| 2:10.6 | of a cult till the cows come home. And I always tell them, I always respond with, |
| 2:23.0 | if you don't like me calling you a cultist, |
| 2:31.8 | if you don't like it when I call you a cult follower of Donald Trump, |
| 2:37.5 | then don't act like one. Don't act like one. |
| 2:48.9 | Like when the Supreme Court rules that his emergency tariffs were unconstitutional and they were, |
| 2:56.6 | don't stand up and defend him, defend the Constitution. And if you do that, if you've done that, I tell my former colleagues, |
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