Why I Left MAGA. No Kings, No Tyranny. No Palaces

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I sat down this week with Alisyn Camerota and Dave Briggs on their “Sanity Podcast” to discuss how life is for me as a four month old Democrat, what the No Kings protests mean, what the protests must lead to, and why basic human decency is gonna carry the day in 2026. Cool conversation. 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.
0:07.4	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.2	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh.
0:15.4	Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.5	The social contract, it's on us.
0:29.7	Here in New York City, police say 100,000 people turned out at multiple marches.
0:38.9	They report no arrests. There were more than 2,600 events from coast to coast.
0:44.9	They are all part of the No King's Movement, which accuses the president of behaving more like a monarch than an elected official.
0:52.1	Trump's secret sauce is being normalized.
0:55.4	When he's normalized, he wins.
0:58.3	He literally lies every time he opens his mouth.
1:01.3	The media no longer checks him on any of his lies.
1:05.4	We've so normalized him.
1:07.0	We shrug our shoulders and say, oh, that's Trump.
1:09.3	It's a really bad thing for America.
1:14.1	Seven million Americans in more than 2,700 cities, both large and small came out to support
1:22.7	the no-kings protest.
1:24.5	That makes it the largest single-day protest in American history. Welcome to the sanity podcast. David and Allison here to break down what was a massive weekend. But Allison, where does it lead? We're both a bit skeptical.
1:39.2	Well, we have the perfect guest to talk about that. So former Congressman Joe Walsh, he was once a Tea Party,
1:46.8	ringleader. Maga, briefly,
1:50.2	MAGA. And then he became a convert. And he saw the writing on the wall. And it was
1:54.9	Donald Trump's behavior that really, I think, spooked him and made him wake up and he left the party, the Republican Party, quite publicly.
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