How To End The ‘Two Party Doom Loop.’ A Conversation

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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I sat down with political scientist @leedrutman to talk about the current state of our politics and our two parties. He believes we have system wide problems and the only solutions to our broken politics are system wide solutions.

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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, stay 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.
0:31.3	Hey, happy Thursday, everybody. Hope you are doing well. Hope your week is going well. Former Congressman
0:37.3	Joe Walsh here.
0:40.3	I probably mention every single day. I know I have been doing this for the last number of years. I think our politics is broken. I think our political system is broken. I think our two-party do-woply needs a kick in the ass and is broken.
0:58.0	I was a lifelong Republican. I left the Republican Party five years ago. I'm politically
1:03.2	homeless as an independent right now. I'm obsessed with our broken political system and how to fix it.
1:12.2	I'm obsessed with this two-party duopoly that we've been stuck with forever.
1:20.1	To help me and us figure out what we need to do, man, I can think of nobody better to speak to than my friend.
1:29.7	Political scientist extraordinaire Lee Drupman.
1:33.8	Lee, hello, my friend.
1:37.0	Hello, Joe.
1:38.1	Let's get to business here.
1:40.8	Let me introduce you first, though, Mr. Lee.
1:44.1	Oh, yeah, right, right. Introduction.
1:45.5	Let me go through this because you're important.
1:49.4	Lee is a senior fellow in the political reform program at New America.
1:55.2	He is a political scientist.
1:57.0	He's the author of a book, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, the case for multi-party democracy in America.
2:07.6	Free substack, you can subscribe under current events, and you can follow Lee on Blue Sky,
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