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🗓️ 24 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Steve Schmidt here with the warning and I am joined tonight by my friend Congressman Joe Walsh |
0:05.8 | who writes the social contract. You can find that a substack. It's a great substack site. |
0:13.0 | I urge you to follow it to subscribe to it. We'll talk about that phrase, what that means, |
0:18.8 | the social contract, a social compact. And that got |
0:24.5 | broken in America a long time ago and understanding how it broke, why it broke, when it broke, |
0:32.7 | is key to understanding why we have a fascist in the White House. |
0:40.3 | Because, as I pointed out, early on in this at the beginning, 10 years ago, |
0:47.3 | fascism rose in the 1930s, not because it was strong, but because democracy was weak. It was rotten and was detained in the, in the |
0:57.0 | We're lucky in America that we have a much stronger democracy with much stronger foundations |
1:05.6 | and a history, but it's being tested and what Trump is, I think, is certainly clear. |
1:13.1 | So we'll talk about that, the social contract, the social compact, talk about citizenship |
1:18.8 | and the meaning of that. |
1:21.2 | We'll talk about what's going on in the news. |
1:24.5 | And we'll talk about specifically an issue that's in the news, which is presidential |
1:31.0 | fitness, presidential coherency. And very specifically, let's talk about that with regard to |
1:39.9 | Donald Trump, who is severely incoherent, inconsistent. |
1:46.9 | And I think let's start with right now when you look at this trip across the Middle East |
1:55.1 | and you see the disrespect from the Trump cabinet officials before the Article I branch of government, |
2:05.2 | before the Congress, when you see the lying, when you see the law breaking, when you see the sneering, |
2:15.2 | it leaves you breathless. |
2:18.4 | And you sit there and you say, wow. |
2:22.4 | And I kind of lean back and say, these people really believe truly they have a license |
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