Trying To Figure Out What’s Really Happening (with Mike Madrid)

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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I sat down with one of the smartest political minds I know, Mike Madrid, to get at what happened in NYC Tuesday, what’s happening with the Democratic Party, what’s happening to our American institutions, and where this great experiment in democracy is heading. As only he can do, Madrid offered fascinating insights.

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0:00.0	This is the 1733 to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at,
0:07.0	thank the team over email for a great meeting.
0:10.0	Finally, close your laptop.
0:13.0	Crack open that novel your MD recommended.
0:16.0	Try to read a page, sigh and close it.
0:19.0	Scroll through cap memes instead.
0:22.0	There's always tomorrow.
0:24.8	Business travel by train is time well spent with Avanti West Coast.
0:32.9	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.
1:03.8	And so as we start, everybody, welcome Mike Madrid.
1:08.6	Again, long-time political thinker and speaker and thought leader I've said
1:17.1	it before I'll say it again so he'll blush he is easily if not the one of the most one of the smartest
1:23.2	political minds I know and to always try to understand where we are politically in this country,
1:31.0	Mike Madrid is always my go-to. And if you're going to subscribe to anybody else besides me,
1:37.5	in addition to me on substack, it's got to be Mike Madrid.
1:42.1	Partner, let me start here.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:46.2	You wrote a really cool substack talking about kind of New York City, what happened last night,
1:55.7	how it related to the tea party from which I come from.
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