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Former MAGA congressman Joe Walsh spun abruptly from President Donald Trump and his MAGA crew years ago after seeing Trump\u2019s damage, and now he is surprised the rest of the nation hasn\u2019t managed to catch on and throw out the Trump poison. Walsh expressed even more surprise at the nation\u2019s failure to wise up after 10 years of Trump\u2019s toxin, particularly after former president Obama\u2019s eloquent speech in Chicago at the opening of his presidential library and community learning center.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople have been telling me, \u2018Oh my god, Joe, how the heck did we get from there to here,\u2019\u201d Walsh said on his \u201cSocial Contract\u201d podcast with guest host former Chicago City councilman Edwin Eisendrath. \u201cAnd I want to tell my lovable liberal elitist friends we’re all there are a lot of reasons for that it’s not just because Trump and half the country are bats\u2014\u2014 crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Obama helped,\u2019\u201d said Walsh. \u201cSure, I helped, too, and the Tea Party helped, but Edwin, you know this because when you were active politically, you were a reformer. You were a reform minded outsider. \u2026 And Obama was part of a political establishment class that did not understand the anger that middle working-class people in this country had. And there was an elite. It’s not just Obama. I mean, Hillary, they all were like this, and a lot of Republicans. And that kind of dismissiveness of the elites Led to the demagogue that Trump is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a contrast, right?\u201d Walsh complained. \u201cAnd I guess before everybody hates me altogether, what I’m trying to say is \u2026 Donald Trump is in my starting five for the absolute worst human beings who’s ever lived. Now, how did that guy get in the White House? And if we as a people can’t honestly really reflect upon that, I mean, how did this good, great, decent country elect one of the worst human beings who’s ever lived? That’s a complicated answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh admitted Obama is an intelligent man who causes longing for a president who does not speak like a demented toddler, but he said some of the Democratic Party’s lagging ideals ultimately got the nation where it is.<\/p>\n

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“How nice is it to listen to a president speak in complete sentences and all the rest, and I get it,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cI appreciate that, but I don’t want all these good folks to go down that same f\u2014\u2014 elitist road and not understand why this madman’s in the White House. I don’t want my new party \u2026 to go down this road where we think the answer, again, is to nominate some elite establishment f\u2014\u2014. That’s not what the Democratic Party needs Because most Americans, Edwin, as you know right now, cannot stand either party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eisendrath pointed out that the Democratic Party is in place of transitioning, at least, and the new blood is outpacing the establishment old guard in primaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republicans are almost finished with their transformation to become simply the party of Trump. The Democrats are involved in a double transformation,\u201d Eisendrath said. \u201cThere is the \u2018let’s make a deal party\u2019 that worked for a long time versus the \u2018get s\u2014\u2014 done party.\u2019 And the \u2018get s\u2014\u2014 done party\u2019 is beating the \u2018make a deal party in primaries.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there’s a generational change, too,\u201d Eisendrath added. \u201cAnd the younger guys are not interested in what are the limits on the power. We have to get things done. They’re going to be tougher than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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