What Are We Even Doing? Don’t Normalize Trump’s Hate

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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There’s plenty of hate and divisiveness to go around, the rhetoric on all sides is way too heated, but the leader of the Republican Party is the king of hate, he’s the king of divisiveness, he’s the king of cruelty, he’s the king of inciting violence. So As long as he is their leader, Republicans own the ugly rhetoric in this country.

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0:00.0	We are not okay. America is not okay. And we all know that. Former Congressman Joe Walsh, this is the social contract with Joe Walsh. Let's figure out how to get okay together. What are we even doing?
0:27.1	What are we doing debating political rhetoric?
0:33.1	What are we doing having a debate or a fight or an argument about which side is more divisive,
0:40.8	which side is more hateful?
0:42.5	What in God's name are we doing?
0:45.1	Why are we even having this discussion with this guy in the White House?
0:51.0	Come on, this is madness.
0:55.9	Donald Trump. Donald Trump, the most divisive person we've ever had in that office.
1:07.4	This isn't even a debate about who's more to blame in this country for the divisiveness,
1:18.1	for the hate, for the cruelty, for the rhetoric.
1:21.4	What do we do?
1:22.5	Pull back for a second, for a moment, all of us, no matter what your age is.
1:31.6	Stop for a minute. a moment all of us no matter what your age is stop for a minute stop everything you're doing right now i get we're dangerously divided i talk about it every day i get it i get we're
1:38.8	idiotically polarized i get that but stop what you're doing right now. It's April 28th, 2026.
1:46.8	Just can we put everything in?
1:48.8	Have we lost all touch with reality that we can't put everything into just a little bit of context?
1:55.0	The President of the United States is Donald Trump.
1:58.3	Stop.
1:59.9	Right there. We've had Republican and Democratic presidents before him. A whole
2:07.0	bunch. None. None of them spewed hate and ugliness and cruelty and divisiveness like this guy just pause for a moment
2:25.3	whatever your party is look back at Reagan look back at George H.W. Bush look back at Jimmy Carter, look back at Reagan. Look back at George H. W. Bush.
2:35.4	Look back at Jimmy Carter.
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