America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.

That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.

I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.

The social contract, it's on us.

It holds true.

I think it's always held true.

When we normalize Trump, he wins.

So let's not normalize him.

When we normalize Donald Trump, he wins.

When we normalize his utterly horrible behavior, he wins. When we normalize his utterly horrible behavior he wins when we normalize his

line and we no longer call him out when he lies he wins when he doesn't get his way

and he screams and shouts about it and we don't make a big deal

about it he wins when he goes after private individuals and private companies and demands that

they be fired when he does shit like that, like he does shit like that every single day.

And we don't call him out and condemn him for it and say how wrong and unprecedented it is

for a president of the United States to use the powers of his office, the most powerful office on the planet,

to threaten, harass, intimidate, and silence people.

When we normalize that behavior, he wins.

When he loses an election and refuses to accept the results of that election. And we don't condemn him to Siberia,

we don't make him a pariah for that,

for that behavior,

which has never,

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