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The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

What Democrats Must Do When They Assume Power. A Conversation With Steve Schmidt

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6752 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with long time political strategist Steve Schmidt to discuss this political moment, what Democrats need to do to meet this moment, and if they meet the moment and take back the House or the Senate, what they must do once they’re back in power. Fascinating chat. Have a listen.

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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.

0:30.8

What I want to talk about today is three things.

0:34.8

I want to connect them all, and I want to tie a ribbon through these three things. I want to connect them all. And I want to tie a ribbon through these three things.

0:42.7

And the theme I want to, I want to connect from the first through the third is winning.

0:51.1

We have to, we have to beat these people in elections, and those elections have to have meaning.

0:57.6

And so we have to talk about three things. The first is what I call the Walsh promise.

1:02.9

The second is Hakeem Jeffrey saying no impeachment for Pete Hagezath, which I find inexplicable.

1:12.2

And third is about Mark Kelly and this moment where something is happening if you have a

1:21.7

sense of American history where there are improbable leaders always that emerge almost providentially.

1:31.9

The moment picks them as opposed to them picking the moment.

1:37.3

This is a moment where one thing I've said is that I think that there's a big problem for anybody whose ambition is overbearing in

1:49.2

this moment of crisis if they if they wanted too much we're going to talk about senator

1:55.5

tally but before we get into it how are you hey steve i just wanted to start before you start saying it's always so fucking good to be

2:03.0

with you.

2:03.6

I mean this, my friend.

2:05.6

When you combine somebody's knowledge of American history with knowledge of American politics,

2:11.8

there ain't nobody better than you.

2:13.9

So it's always so good to just converse with you.

2:16.7

Thanks.

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