The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

I sat down again with my favorite no bullshit polling analyst @realcarlallen because I'm on the ground in all the battleground states and it feels to me like Trump had the edge. Carl the pollster disagrees. So I pushed him hard to ease my fears. Have a listen.

It should matter. Character should matter. Integrity should matter. Decency should matter. But to way too many Trump supporters today, none of these traits matter anymore. None of them. Trump is an utterly horrible human being, yet, to his supporters, that doesn't matter. This is a scary place to be. A scary place for our entire country.

The only way Donald Trump can win is to poison the minds of enough Americans into believing that America is a shithole country, a failing nation, a dark dystopian place. His only hope is to find enough Americans to believe his lies, enough Americans to buy into the fear. It's a disinformation campaign the likes of which we've never seen.

It's a dangerous road we're on. You begin by disagreeing with someone on an issue, then you say they're wrong, then you question their motives, then you want nothing to do with them, then you hate them, then you call them evil, and then comes political violence. To survive as a free country, we must get off this road.

I sat down with @pasuburbsguy. We agree on most issues. But we disagree on Trump. HUGELY. So we sat down, to listen to each other, and to try to understand how and why we ended up on opposite sides this time around. Good, respectful conversation.

In making the case that Donald Trump committed crimes trying to overthrow the 2020 election, it was Republicans under oath who provided the evidence. It wasn't Democrats. It was people who worked for and believed in Trump who provided the evidence against Trump. Don't forget that.

It doesn't please me to say it, but JD Vance won that debate last night. He effectively normalized Trump. If Trump is normalized, he had a decent shot to win. Vance helped normalize Trump last night. Walz did a poor job of describing to the American people what a uniquely dangerous threat Trump is.

He's doing it again. He's saying the election is going to be stolen. He's saying the only way he can lose is if the election is stolen. He's laying the seeds to not accept the results if he loses. He's attacking our democracy and inciting violence. AGAIN. He's doing it AGAIN.