The America I Loved Is Dying: A Conversation With A Brit

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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She grew up loving & admiring America, she spent time here as a 13yr old exchange student and worked in NYC as a young woman. But that America, from her perspective, is no more. Trump & Vance beating up Zelensky in the White House a few weeks ago made that clear. A poignant conversation with a friend from the U.K.

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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.
0:32.9	Hey, welcome this Friday, former Congressman Joe Walsh with you.
0:36.9	Hope you've all had a good week.
0:38.9	Couple housekeeping things out of the way right now. There you see it. No kings, no kings, no kings, no kings in America.
0:48.4	As always, if you want to join the No Kings movement, go to one flag initiative.org. That's all one word. Oneflaginitiative.org.
0:59.7	Sign up and join the No Kings movement. You want to shoot me an email about anything.
1:06.0	Feel free, as always. The Social Contract with Joe Walsh at gmail.com.
1:12.1	Again, all one word, the social contract with Joe Walsh at gmail.com.
1:19.8	I've been dying to have this conversation.
1:22.6	You know how I feel about Trump.
1:25.5	We all talk to each other about what's going on in America right now.
1:31.8	We've all got our take on Trump, Trumpism, America, what America is right now, how America's changed.
1:41.3	I wanted to get the perspective of someone who's not here in America.
1:49.2	And I came across a piece a few weeks ago that I read that just moved the hell out of me.
1:58.0	On Substack, and I'm going to ask you to follow her on Substack, the title of the piece was
2:04.1	grief for the America I knew. And I read this piece and it made me sit back and made me take another
2:15.2	long, hard look at how America under this president has changed.
2:21.7	So I want to invite the author of that piece on this podcast because I have so much I want to
2:28.4	ask her.
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